Sentenced to death
November 7, 2006| By Nathaniel Ward
Deposed dictator Saddam Hussein has been condemned to hang.
Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death on Sunday by an Iraqi court, sparking spontaneous celebrations in Iraq. The war crimes conviction will be automatically appealed.
The verdict’s “implications will reverberate far beyond Iraq,” Heritage national security expert Peter Brookes tells National Review Online. He wonders how the world’s other despots must be feeling, “with the full realization that someday they may share his fate in the courtroom and the gallows.”
Meanwhile, The Washington Post interviews some front-line troops and finds that they’re not in favor of cutting and running from Iraq. “Pulling out now would be as bad or worse than going forward with no changes,” one Army captain told the newspaper. “Take us out of that vacuum—and it’s on the edge now—and boom, it would become a free-for-all,” argued a lieutenant colonel.
Nathaniel Ward is the Editor of MyHeritage.org—a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation.
