{"id":406,"date":"2007-01-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/01\/ryan-beiler-dirty-deeds-not-do.html"},"modified":"2007-01-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T12:00:00","slug":"ryan-beiler-dirty-deeds-not-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/01\/ryan-beiler-dirty-deeds-not-do.html","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Beiler: Dirty Deeds Not Done Dirt Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to Christianity Today<\/em><\/a> for quoting Brian McLaren<\/a>, Jim Wallis<\/a>, and Shane Claiborne’<\/a>s blog entries in a recent round-up of Christian leaders’ views<\/a> (scroll down to topic #3) on the execution of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

But with respect to my colleagues (who focused more on the moral\/spiritual aspects), one salient point that I’ve found missing from most commentary on the execution is that the specific crime of which Hussein was convicted – the 1982 massacre of 148 Iraqis in the town of Dujail – occurred while Hussein was being aided <\/span>by the United States.<\/p>\n

The infamous photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Hussein was taken in 1983. What’s more, the U.S. actively supported Hussein throughout the ’80s<\/a> in spite of reports of such atrocities, including the use of chemical weapons. This isn’t conspiracy theory – the report linked above is drawn almost entirely from mainstream media sources like The New York Times<\/span>, Los Angeles Times<\/span>, and The Washington Post<\/span>. Of course, this isn’t news to anyone who’s followed Iraq-U.S. politics for any length of time. The joke about how “the U.S. knows Iraq has WMDs because we have the receipts,” isn’t far off.<\/p>\n

It just seems especially ironic that so many Americans are celebrating the death of a tyrant who was executed for a crime committed while he was “our S.O.B.”<\/a> Iraqis had long suffered because of U.S. support for Saddam, and now American servicemen and women have joined them in paying dearly for the war to remove him.<\/p>\n

Ryan Beiler<\/span> is the Web Editor for Sojourners\/Call to Renewal.<\/p>\n

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