1.0 link 37547 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/hanging-by-a-thread_b_37547.html Cruel despots tend to die violently, but when the U.S. handed Saddam Hussein over to his Iraqi executioners, the feeling was both medieval and barbaric. Perhaps--just perhaps--this act would have felt morally right if it had happened years ago. Before Abu Ghraib, the secret CIA prisons, suicides at Guantanamo, and the abandonment of basic rights for 'enemy combatants' like Jose Padilla. As it stands, those things can't be erased, and now Saddam's execution feels like part of a pattern.
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