Army deserters to be executed (Iraq)

[jmc247]

Source: Azzaman

Iraqi soldiers who desert their units now face execution, according to a decree by the country’s Presidential Council.

The offense is the latest of nearly 200 others convicted Iraqis are to be punished with death penalty.

The penalties are also applicable to the cadets of military academies in the country.

Turning desertion into an offense punishable by death comes amid mounting criticism from human rights groups that Iraq has become one of the world’s highest users of death penalty.

Read more: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2007-04-23\kurd.htm

[BOSSHOG]

1. Good thing bush didn't get into an Iraqi Champagne Guard Unit

For patriotic conservative Americans who like to peak in here, your hero is a drug addicted, corporate criminal who deserted his military unit to avoid a drug test. He's not a christian and he's not honorable, has zero integrity and is a liar.

[leQ]

2. you're not telling us anything we didn't already know. (n/t)

[BOSSHOG]

9. I'm gonna hazard a guess

You are not a conservative lurker, whom I like to aggravate with the facts.

Manly, Iowa. I like it. I'm from Manly Iowa.

[leQ]

23. get out! really!? (eom)

[BOSSHOG]

24. I'm failing

in my communication skills today. I'm not from Manly, Iowa. I just like saying it. I'm a Manly kinda guy.

[saigon68]

4. FREEDOM ( and order) IS ON THE MARCH

[jmc247]

6. Iraq is just like America was in the days of our Founding Fathers

Not the Revolutionary War mind you, more like the 1620s.

[Monkeyman]

11. AWOL is Right BOSS While I shed my blood he ran away

[saigon68]

15. Yes he limped out

Didn't he

[Miss Chybil]

3. It's always good to kill your own people when you're in a war.

Especially, when they don't agree with you. I just don't know how they can stand all that "freedom." /sarcasm

[ShortnFiery]

5. What a wonderful democratic government we've help to build, too bad it's NOT humanitarian ...

but you can't have everything. :eyes:

[VegasWolf]

7. Well, when you have the Texas Executioner as chief occupier I guess it is to be

expected!

:puke:

[tabasco]

8. The puppet government of Iraq is a spawn of the Bush mafia.

They should have good escape plans because the only thing protecting them from their own people is the US military and US mercenaries.

[rodeodance]

10. oh my Gawd!!!!!!! Most of these men joun just to feed the family. What have

we done!!

[MidwestTransplant]

12. Bush would be proud.

[rodeodance]

13. "an intrinsic element of implementing an Islamic criminal code."

Four sentenced to death among them a Libyan



By Omran Hayder



Azzaman, April 20, 2007



A court in Baghdad has sentenced three Iraqis and a Libyan national to death, according to a statement by the country’s Supreme Court.



The statement did not say when the execution of the four will take place but added harsh sentences were passed to punish 30 more convicts among them several Arab nationals.



The issuing of death penalty by the court comes following criticism by human rights group Amnesty International that Iraq has turned into the world’s fourth highest user of death penalty.



At least 270 people have been sentenced to death since mid-2004, often after unfair trials the report says, and more than 100 people have been hanged, the group said.



Iraqi officials have dismissed the criticism, saying that capital punishment is an intrinsic element of implementing an Islamic criminal code.



The death penalty for the Libyan was issued for joining ‘an armed group’, said the statement.



The sentencing of the three Iraqis to death was made after they were found guilty of kidnapping, it added.

[Demeter]

14. Somehow I Don't Think This Will Build The Army, the Country, or the Democracy

but what do I know? After all, I'm a prisoner of BFEE and the GOP right-wing conspiracy, along with 70% of this country and much of the world.

[Kagemusha]

16. If they actually implement this it'll be a massive shift.

Pretty much guaranteed to make huge amounts of tribal enemies for the government too.

[jmc247]

17. Hahahahahaha

ummm, sorry, but Tribal law is even more brtual then that for tribal fighters who dishonor the tribe by not joining the tribe in battle. Tribal fighters are often beheaded if they dishonor the tribe in such a way.

What is happening in Iraq is the after all the human rights stuff that Bremer instituted like getting rid of the death penality Iraq is reverting to what is is used to.

[Kagemusha]

21. Does Tribal law let non tribal leaders execute members of the tribe?

No? I didn't think so.

Do you not see the problem?

[hang a left]

18. Maybe they do hate us for our freedoms???

Unfrickenbelievable.

[Tyler Durden]

19. Higher rate than TEXAS?

That WOULD be high.

[daleo]

20. Welcome to the 16th Century

"The offense is the latest of nearly 200 others convicted Iraqis are to be punished with death penalty."

How is this an improvement over Saddam Hussein?

[vincent_vega_lives]

22. This was standard US Policy right up through WWII

and technically still is. Desertion in the face of the enemy can carry the death penalty. Though the Civil War was the last time it was enforced with any regularity.

[One_Life_To_Give]

25. What army doesn't shoot deserters?

Granted at least in the US it is only used as a deterent by making the occasional example. But the implicit idea that a soldier can either follow orders and possibly die or disobey/desert and certainly die. Has a certain merit in getting the total job done.