Can you believe that Charlie Rangel called Sadams hanging a lynching?

Question

What a guy.

Wrong,lynching is hanging by mob without legal sanctions,he was tried in Iraqi court.Read the meaning in the dictionary.

Answer 1

I have two thoughts on this.

First, Charlie Rangel is a brilliant and shrewd politician who caters to the monolithic voting block of the Hispanic (46%) and black (37%) minority constituents in NY's 15th Congressional District. In 1970 he defeated Adam Clayton Powell, who had held the seat since 1944 but had been ousted by his own party and was facing numerous charges of mismanagement and corruption.

His subsequent 36 years in Congress catering to the liberal views of his district have led him to the chairmanship of the most powerful Ways and Means Committee.

So we know what to expect from Charlie Rangel...and why he says what he does.

My second point is Saddam's execution. To call this a lynching is of course absurd. He was executed differently from how we would do things in America. But he was tried and was found guilty and was sentenced to be hanged. The fact that some name-calling and chanting occurred was unfortunate.

But to imply that Saddam Hussein had any redeeming qualities is silly. He was a ruthless tyrant who routinely kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered his opponents. His executioners were sadistic: feeding humans into wood chippers, immersing them in acid and tossing them off buildings are just a few of his methods of execution.

Saddam was personally responsible for ordering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Iranians and Kuwaitis in his various campaigns. And he grossly enriched himself and his family while the majority of his non-Bath Party citizens lived in near primitive deprivation.

If seizing people and putting them to death without a trial is the definition of a “lynching” then Saddam Hussein was indeed the lynch master…not the victim, as some here would imply.

Rangel knows this was no "lynching". But Rangel also knows that the voters who have sent him back to Congress 18 times will have a personal, visceral and supportive reaction to such an evocative characterization.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Maybe he used the wrong word. He was not referring to Saddam being innocent, if that's what you're trying to spin. Get a clue. You people will go to any length to spin something......and we thought you were the 'tough', thinking party. What a bunch of wimps!
LOL.

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Answer 4

I guess Rangel wanted to rehabilitate Saddam instead.

Answer 5

Yes because it was.Good Saddam met his maker but the way it was carried out was below all norms of decency.Again a heavy PR blunder for the US.Yes for the US because they gave him up to the Iraqi "authorities",a primitive and cruel lynch mob.
Al Sadar is now the most powerful man in Iraq.That's a Muslim extremist,Saddam wasn't,he was a cruel and blood thirsty dictator but not a robe wearing, women oppressing,yihadi like Al Sadar
All intelligent people agree that hanging was done in a barbaric way
"Muhammad." That was Saddam Hussein's last word before the trap door underneath him dropped. Hussein was hanged in Baghdad last week. The execution was sudden, rushed, and a public-relations catastrophe, not only for Iraq, since it occurred at the time of a major Muslim feast, but also for the United States.

The gallows on which Saddam was hanged is U.S. property. It sits on a U.S. military base, Camp Justice. Saddam was transported to the gallows from another U.S. military base in Baghdad, Camp Cropper, where he had been incarcerated by Americans for three years. And the personnel who moved Saddam from prison to gallows are U.S. troops. But the U.S. is trying to downplay its role. Question: Has the hanging damaged the image of the Maliki government, especially around the world? Mort Zuckerman.

MR. ZUCKERMAN: Well, absolutely. I mean, what happened there was a travesty. It turned into an ethnic conflict, virtually, in the sense that the Sunnis are now enraged by the way the Shi'a really attacked him. One might -- how soon they forget, when they attacked Saddam at the thing, including the people from Muqtada al-Sadr's group.

So what you had there was another occasion in which the sectarian conflict within the country became exacerbated by an event that was almost deliberately staged by the government. The prime minister took responsibility for this. This is an outrage in general, but for him particularly. And for us, trying to diminish the sectarian violence, this was a very, very, very bad event.

Answer 6

Legally, it was an execution, and, according to Iraqi law, the correct sentence. In fact, while legal, the Shi'a hangmen and the circus atmosphere looked pretty disgusting even if Saddam got what he deserved.

Answer 7

Rangel is a anti-anything America piece of fecal matter
Beheading of Americans he thinks are A-OK as long as they are White Americans
Legal execution is what it was
Tried and judged found guilty and hung to bad
Lets all cry for the dead Mass Murderer like Rangel is BOO HOO

Answer 8

Yes, coming from Rangel. The only pro-US sentiment I have heard from the man was when he criticized Chavez for attacking Bush on US soil.

It was a rare moment, and he needs more of them.

Answer 9

Screw Rangel....Saddam got what was coming to him,and done by his own people.

Answer 10

The same Liberal thinking that will not fight for the safety and security of our country. Cut N' Run. No ideas of their own. Never have and they will never have an idea of their own.

One thing for sure, none of our brave men protecting our country, would want a yellow backed liberal to protect his hind quarters in a fight. Can't we just sit down and chit chat about the problem. Bunch of pacifist jerks.