[Mr Angry]

Tell me Xaccers, do you get a worse hanging depending on the number of victims or is it the case that "our" murders are less reprehensible than his murders?

As has been evidenced and remarked upon in this thread your defence when cornered is to twist words, create strawmen and play to the gallery. I've no wish to engage you in this type of behaviour.

It strikes me, and I'm sure others, as somewhat bizarre the sanctity and reverence with which you hold the innocent victims of Hussein yet, at the same time, the innocent lives lost for "freedom and democracy" in Iraq hardly merit a mention on your part. Why are you not seeking justice for them? Oh, that's right, it's a war, something you've no actual experience of, but better still it's "our" war - against oppression and genocide (irony or what?).

Two wrongs do not make a right and remember, those soldiers on trial for murder and rape were out there murdering and raping in your name.

Margaret Beckett has no idea what she is talking about - many of her parliamentary colleagues have already expressed their concerns publically over her inexperience and her appointment to the post. The Labour party opposes the death penalty and condemns other "less civilized" countries for employing same when it suits them. In this case it doesn't so they backslap and congratulate one another on the deposing and subsequent pending execution of Hussein.

It will be interesting to see if the gassed Kurds, dead Kuwaitis, murdered Shia and Barzani tribesmen get their "Iraqi justice" but some how I suspect Hussein will have long shuffled of this mortal coil in a flurry of democratic Iraqi justice expediency before they see their day in court.

I've stated previously that I have no real wish to argue with you any further on this matter and I suggest, with all due respect, that we leave the facts as they are.