Iraq executed 21 people convicted of terrorism charges on Tuesday, including three women, according to an Iraqi spokesman for the Justice Ministry.
The appalling number of state executions in a single day is just one illustration of the wreck the United States left in Iraq after more than 8 years of invasion, military occupation, and nation building.
The news comes as just finished delivering to the Iraqi government the last 140 tanks promised as part of a military-to-military support and training program, which followed a batch of F-16 fighter jets. The Baghdad government, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has become increasingly authoritarian while continuing to receive extraordinary support from Washington.
Amnesty International in June condemned the Iraqi state’s penchant for the death penalty, calling it “alarming.” About 200 more executions are planned for the near future.
According to Ayad Allawi, the secular Shi’ite leader of the opposition Iraqiya bloc in parliament, Maliki’s security forces have detained and brutally tortured more than 1,000 political opponents in secret prisons and denied them access to legal counsel.
US support for dictatorship and human rights abuses in Iraq is expected to continue, aimed at increasing Washington’s influence in the Middle East, following a fiasco war that inadvertently provided Iran with a new Shiite ally in neighboring Iraq.
Ah…"terrorism"…such a convenient term…allows the removal of those pesky adversarial voices in the opposition parties…you know…those who are not aligned with the ruling coalition…you know…terrorists…it also allows for the execution with no allowance for appeal. Bad terrorists. Bad.
Something learned from the Communists. The big bad red used to send them to Siberia or in an asylum. The gentle, generous and humane Empire drones them to pieces.
Or throws them in a Marine prison and then tortures them in broad daylight (for their own safety, of course) knowing the pussified MSM won't raise a squawk.
Competing with the US for that #1 spot, eh?
Creatures of the state — Murders for the state
moleman
“It is very ignorant to believe that
the death penalty deters crime.”
Just as drone warfare is the ultimate conclusion of the fake morality that a greater terrorism can overcome lesser terrorism, so is the state sponsored murder of helpless prisoners a fake morality based on the illusion that if we can just come up with the ultimate greatest evil we can so terrorize our enemies into never again doing us evil.
Problem is, organic good works in the reverse of the realm of evil.
Evil
To enrich yourself upon the misery of others,
A crime in any fair and just society.
Good
To be enriched upon the enrichment of others.
And there is an absolute barrier between the realm of good and the realm of evil. For an evil government uses deadly force to make evil people less evil, which only makes people all the more evil and government the absolute worst of all evils
For a good government would give convicted murders an income earning job of their choice where they could send the income home or use it to help some charity, and in that way turn government into a more giving and caring charity.
That should rate Maliki up there with the mad mullahs of Iran, or the governors of Texas and Florida.
Except the 'good guys' only execute 'criminals'.
I guess the Pvssy Riot trial in Russia was soooo much more important, that what our "friends" in Iraq were doing simply slipped under the radar.