Sunday, January 07, 2007
Krauthammer on Saddam's Execution
From Krauthammer:
Yes, Saddam did drown out the testimony of his victims in coverage around the world.
But that was not the fault of the Iraqis. Saddam could have been ball-gagged and duct-taped in court - either figuratively or literally - and people would have bitched about that, too.
Saddam's victims were every bit as eloquent and moving as Saddam.
Saddam drowned out the testimony of his victims because our media allowed it.
Splash, out
Jason
In late 2005, I wrote about the incompetence of the Hussein trial and how it was an opportunity missed. Instead of exposing, elucidating and irrefutably making the case for the crimes of the accused -- as was done at Nuremberg and the Eichmann trial -- the Iraqi government lost control and inadvertently turned it into a stage for Hussein. The trial managed to repair the image of the man the world had last seen as a bedraggled nobody pulled cowering from a filthy hole. Now coiffed and cleaned, he acted the imperious president of Iraq, drowning out the testimony of his victims in coverage seen around the world.
Yes, Saddam did drown out the testimony of his victims in coverage around the world.
But that was not the fault of the Iraqis. Saddam could have been ball-gagged and duct-taped in court - either figuratively or literally - and people would have bitched about that, too.
Saddam's victims were every bit as eloquent and moving as Saddam.
Saddam drowned out the testimony of his victims because our media allowed it.
Splash, out
Jason
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