Dear Sir,

Saddam was executed for doing his job, and doing exactly the same as George Bush did when he was Governor of Texas. Not that your paper reported it clearly, but Saddam was not charged with the actual murder of the 148 people, he was charged with being the President of Iraq and in that role he authorised the execution warrants of the 148. What had the 148 done? They had tried to assasinate the President of Iraq, failed and got caught. Subsequently, those 148 were tried by the Iraqi court system, found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentences could not be carried out until the President authorised the execution warrants. This is a clear judicial process. As an aside, I wonder who signed Saddam's death warrant, and when?

This is exactly the same as GW Bush did in Texas, more than 150 times, sending convicted criminals to their death after signing their death warrants. Why is he not similarly guilty of murder?

Ramsey Clark says Saddam's trial reeked of injustice and that this execution has done immense damage to international rule of law.

We as Australians are now collectively guilty of a major war crime, because Saddam was a prisoner of war and hostilities had not ended. Once again the USA demonstrated their disdain for the Geneva Conventions by handing Saddam over to the Iraqis to be put to death. Saddam was not in Iraqi hands during the trial, he was an American prisoner.

If, and I really mean if, Saddam was responsible for genocide, we now have no chance of proving it in a genuine court of law. Where are the mass graves? Where is the incontravertible evidence of guilt on his part to crimes of genocide? We will never see it now, it will all be papered over with the politically correct propaganda of newspapers such as yours, to be engraved without proof, that Saddam was a tyrant but don't bother looking for the proof.

Regards,

[Cockeyed Bob - Sent 31Dec06 - unlikely to be published in our tightly controlled propaganda apparatus in Australia]