Hanging In The Balance

It's official , the life of the former dictator of Iraq is hanging in the balance.
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by the Iraq 'government' yesteday .
He is to hang . He did prefer death by firing squad we are told , but no longer wielding power and ordering others to their deaths or being waited on by servants in one of his palaces , the former despot does not even have the luxury of his final choice in the menu of death .
The question really is ; 'Will he swing or sing?'.
Either way it could be troublesome.

If he swings on the end of a rope, the analysts are telling us his Sunni supporters will elevate him to a martyr and inflict countless more atrocities thereby destabilising the fragile 'democracy 'even further into chaos and mayhem.

If he sings, this could be equally disturbing. for his lawyer is already lodging an appeal . If this is succesful ,I imagine further charges will continously be launched against him until he is finally nailed down . But then he will have so much to sing about when various details of his previous crimes come into the open. He may well implicate various good guys who encouraged him along in 1980-88 in the war against Iran. The real weapons of mass destruction (Not the imaginary ones),the weapons used agianst his own citizens . Who sold them to him ? when and why? . He will have lots to say .
Either way then if he swings or sings , things are not looking good for the beleaguered people of Iraq and the board room Guerillas of The White House or Downing Street.
Now If he is eventually executed , how will he or his magnanimous victors Bush and Blair be entered into the sewage of history?
The Iraq /Iran war , a million casualties? from reliable sources. The persecution of his own people included for so many years of his reign. The figures could reach tens or hundreds of thousands it is not clear .
His adversaries though when considering the assault on Iraq using the most powerful weapons of mass destruction during the war to liberate Kuwait , the interim , the second invasion of Iraq in 2003 and all that followed , have exceeded him .
When one includes the suffering imposed indirectly whether intentional or not , one must be a fool to not come to the conclusion that America and its European province of Britain has caused more death and suffering .
Remember that we live in a world of selective reporting and sophisticated spin by devious politicians who dress up military imperialist acts of genocide as 'humanitarian interventions'. The facts are out there if one is willing to look for alternative views from reliable sources ; Unicef ? The Lancet? to name but
a few of the more establishment orientated ones for those that do not trust the brilliance of 'lefty ' commentators such as Pilger ,Fisk or Chomsky.

In conclusion , I can only make the following analogy to describe how all three scoundrels are related.

Remember that excellent film by Copolla : The Godfather? picture these elegant mafia dons, dressed smartly , seated in their plush offices , offering warm Italian hospitality to their adversaries . They speak of lofty virtues such as : family values , honour , respect .....and being a 'reasonable man'. How superbly portrayed by Marlon Brando . When the battle lines were drawn and there was a conflict of interest between major gangs ,the killings happen...men are machine gunned down whilst in a wedding or funeral , others are brutally stabbed by gangleaders' henchmen. These lower ranking henchmen and thugs often in the story , after serving their purpose as paid assassins , would be then bumped off themselves for security reasons. The poor buggers were vitims in their own right, sacrificed whilst the mafia dons in their suits regained power and restored 'order ' to the community.
Well, in the dumping ground of history all three of our players will be there : Bush the Mafia don , Blair the close and trusty junior partner of the family business , then The great tyrant himself in the role of the cheap , hired ,expendable thug whose fate is to be bumped of ......swinging after he helped to settled the score .
The devastion of Iraq is a big crime , Saddam is guilty but the price paid by his people at the mercy of their liberators is much higher than can be imagined or dared to be made public by a dishonest system of 'Free press'.
Saddam's life is now hanging in the balance but millions did not even have a fair trial.