[Red Moon]

My post (edited) from the Iraq Today Thread

I don't think that the killing of Saddam Hussein will have any beneficial effect the situation in Iraq. It just ends the war officially for the US government, British government and the puppet government of Iraq by showing that they have the power to kill the leader of the opposing force after a show trial in Iraq. Thinking back it is quiet obvious why the US in particular didn't want a International trial of Saddam Hussein because they would have been shown to be complicit in some of the acts of genocide. They knoew about them and even aided Saddam Hussein at the time they took place.

If anything his death will increase the insurgent attacks as his supporters carry out his instructions to join forces with Islamists rebels and disrupt the civilian infrastructure of Iraq. While the insurgent raids continue Iraq can never be stabilised. My fear is that Iraq will never be united and will fragment into a fire fight which will lead to even greater acts of genocide as one group tries to wipe the other off the face of the earth.

As the days and weeks go on the celebrations in Shia areas at the death of Saddam will only make the divisions in the country worse. And the Shia's will see it as license to do as the want to the minorities in the country. Of course you can't deny the pleasure felt by many who suffered at the hands of Saddam's tyrannical regime, but to then use his reign as an excuse to start a new period of tyranny is unforgivable.

You can already see the start of this in police stations through out Iraq, where prisoners are being tortured and murdered without trial. Only the other week the British forces had to raid a police station to save a group of prisoners from the bullet. A lot of these prisoners will be Saddam Hussein supporters caught up in the revenge of Shia rivals who are running the armed forces and the police. What have they to lose by joining the fight break up the country. As far as they are concerned it is better to fight than to sit around to wait to be arrested and end up dead in by some form of victor's justice at the hands of their Shia rivals.

All this isn't going to be helped by Iraq Government and Christian West insistence that the trial was fair. Human Rights Watch who observed every day of the process were highly critical of the trial process. And they concluded in their report it was not a fair trial, and the soundness of the verdict was questionable. Human Rights Watch criticised the management of the trial, protection given to witnesses, the lack of material given to the defense, prejudicial comments made by Iraqi politicians and the defense for using the court as a political grandstand. This report and the feeling of Governments in the region will give justification to those who supported Saddam in taking arms with the Islamists rebels to remove the Iraq Government by destabilising the Country.

The future doesn't look good. And I fear that the comments by the Christian West are only going to make things worse. Our troops will pay with there lives for execution of Saddam as will many of the Iraq people caught up in the violence of a disintegrating state. Further to this by executing Saddam when they did the Government effectively upset the Kurds by killing the chief defendant in the trail for gassing of the Kurds in the 80's. His execution won't solve the problems of the country but will make the divisions greater.