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Caribbean-Latin America
Cuba condemns execution of Saddam as 'illegal'
2007-01-02
Saddam's execution by hanging over the weekend was "an illegal act in a country that has been driven toward an internal conflict in which millions of citizens have been exiled or lost their lives.
Communist Cuba on Monday condemned the execution of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and called for the end to the war it said had caused the suffering of millions of innocent Iraqis. Saddam's execution by hanging over the weekend was "an illegal act in a country that has been driven toward an internal conflict in which millions of citizens have been exiled or lost their lives," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official National Information Agency.
Posted by:Fred

#8  How about dropping Fidel just for the spectacle ? He's already dead anyway.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2007-01-02 11:38  

#7  CS, you know that Fidel's been the MSM's favorite dictator for a damn long time......and since his little bro Raul hasn't said that El Jefe has assumed room temperature, they are more than happy to print the gospel from Havana at every opportunity.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2007-01-02 10:50  

#6  Does the AP realize how STUPID they look carrying water for despots? I bet Raul and the cuban leadership feels that hanging is cruel, they always just shoot, torture, or starve their polical oppponents, but never hang them.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-01-02 10:34  

#5  Geez, dictators around the world are feeling sympathetic neck pain.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-01-02 08:36  

#4  Of course, the press release overlooks the fact that the millions of citizens whose lives were lost were lost by the madman that was hung. Always having problems with cause-and-effect, these totalitarians are, with all shortcomings that cause the wheels of government to stutter and halt liberally lubricated with the money and blood of human beings.

I kinda figure there's a secret International Union of Dictators, Despots, Tyrants, and Benevolent Leaders For Life. They all support each other, and wannabes like the Left and the MSM wanting to join have to pledge their support of the existing members.
Posted by: Ptah   2007-01-02 07:58  

#3  The only 'legal' way for Fidel, and other dictators-for-life, to be removed is to die of old age, while still in office.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-01-02 06:13  

#2  And when the Fidelists put mere bureaucrats up against the wall and shot them, I suppose that was "legal."
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550   2007-01-02 01:29  

#1  ha ha
the destpots always support each other's hypocracy
So be sure and holiday in Cuba doughheads
Posted by: Jim   2007-01-02 00:48  

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