Executing Saddam, Protecting the Rackets (Mafia-Style Justice)

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/garcia12302006.html


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Beyond its use as political theater for the masses, Saddam's execution was a spasm of pleasurable barbarism within the international club of the leadership class, a triumphal ritual by a victorious elite against a defeated adversary of its own class. It was an orgasm of power that aspired to be both primal and stylized like the delivery of the coup de grace -- whether by a cat biting through the neck of its prey, or a lieutenant firing his pistol into the temple of one dispatched by a firing squad -- but came off graceless and chaotic like the frenzy of a lynching.

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And finally, Saddam's execution is a bit of necessary housekeeping by the managers of the war. It is the elimination of the possibility of damaging exposures by a former confederate. Rumsfeld is not the only political operator who is relieved of any hazard of disclosures by Saddam..

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The quick execution of Saddam Hussein is not simply "victor's justice," it is a demotion in a Mafia-style re-organization, the elimination of capo fallen from grace, to protect the power elite from any exposures that would threaten its control.
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just the neo cons doing business

[bklyncowgirl]

1. Saddam Hussein will not stand trial for the gas attacks on the Kurds

This will be swept under the rug as lesser figures get tried in obscurity and marched off for their own date with the hangman.

Those inconvenient facts about the U.S. turning a blind eye to what this bastard was doing and refusing to allow a UN vote condemning the attacks will remain down in the memory hole available only to those who care to seek them out. The vast majority of Americans will neither know nor care about their country's role in condoning these murders and possibly supplying the weapons that did the job.

They also get an inconvenient witness silenced forever before the Democrats arrive in the new Congress, subpoenas in hand.

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R!

The spectacle of the execution is overshadowing the fact that Bushco is acting like the crime sydicate that they are. This was a hit, plain and simple.