Saddam hanging deplorable - Brown {UK Chancellor}

[CJCRANE]

"Chancellor Gordon Brown has condemned the way in which Saddam Hussein was executed as "deplorable".
Mr Brown told BBC One's Sunday AM show the manner of the former Iraqi leader's hanging was "completely unacceptable".

The chancellor said he was personally against the death penalty, and he hoped lessons would be learnt from the mistakes made in Saddam's execution.

Mobile phone footage of the hanging showed Saddam being taunted. Tony Blair has not yet commented on the hanging."

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6238115.stm

[truthisfreedom]

1. And of course Tony won't comment on it. He needs to protect his big fat salary at Halliburton.

He's got no morals.

[Kutjara]

2. Of course Tony hasn't said anything yet.

He has to wait until Shrub finishes his vacation. Then the Chimperor can tell Tony what to think.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. The 'Prime Minster to be' is right

I don't think they should have shown the 'Hussein execution' on TV or any photos. They could have thrown him in jail for life.

[Briar]

5. You'll notice he didn't say that

The ultimate atrocity is the death penalty - criticising the mode isn't enough. Brown is very keen on "British values" and it is one of our values that I take pride in that we have abolished the death penalty. Brown and Bliar (whose spokesman has hurried in with a statement to the effect that he also disapproves of the way in which Saddam was despatched) apparently do not share this value - they haven't condemned the sentence itself. Which means, I suppose, that they are upholding another old British value - hypocrisy.

[Mojorabbit]

4. I just find it strange

that it is ok to go into a country and bomb innocent people to smitherines and then object to one lynching. It seems like hypocrisy to me.

[JoFerret]

6. Thanks Gordon

It was barbaric and did even further harm to any cause that the "west" may have had in further any goals. Totally backward. Appealing only to the blood lusting sickos of whom we have an abundance it seems. All decent people should shout barbarism from the hilltops. All should condemn the sentence, as well as its bungled and sick "execution".