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Originally Posted by KN4995
I appreciate this thread has a particular flavour, so apologies for going elsewhere with it and for butting in. I just didn't want to start another thread.
Just been more than a bit disappointed that the administrator of another forum I have been using for the best part of a decade, has made a post with not just the link to the mobile phone footage of Saddam, but an embedded YouTube video - fortunately it's not an autostarter.
Why anyone would want to see that is beyond me?
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The more it becomes an international controversy, and the more you hear people on TV and radio talking about it, the more likely folks are to say to themselves, "well, I suppose I should go and see what all the fuss is about then." However, that's a world apart from embedding the video into a forum post where plenty of people who didn't want to see it are likely to trip over it.
Even so, it all rather reminds me of the stories of nice little old grannies sitting by the gilloutine doing their knitting and watching while the toffs got their heads separated from their shoulders. Of course, if normal, civilised, nice people go to watch an execution, then it must be ok for everyone else to watch too, eh?
I'm not going to watch it myself. I'm one of those (apparently shrinking) number of people who thought the point in history when we abandoned public executions in this country was a civilised step forward.
The treatment of the vanquished Saddam Hussein should have been a chance for those who replaced him to show that thier way is better than his. On the current evidence, they're not doing very well at all. At least the antics that took place within Saddam's gruesome torture chambers and gallows didn't have a tendency to leak out via the WWW or the world media.