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Blair Forced to Condemn Saddam Lynching
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Channel 4 News - Snowmail (UK) - Jan 7, 2007
http://www.channel4.com
Blair: manner of Saddam's execution 'completely wrong'
Tony Blair will do a slightly toned down version of John Prescott's response
to Saddam Hussein's execution this week. His press office is saying he will
tell us he thinks the manner of the execution was "completely wrong".
Not, take note, the execution itself (although he will no doubt restate
Britain's opposition to the death penalty) but the manner in which it was
carried out. The PM's hitherto silence on the whole sorry saga of the
hanging and the video and the taunts has drawn much criticism.
What we are told he will say is hardly surprising. What's perhaps more
interesting is that it follows Gordon Brown's declaration this morning that
the whole thing was a deplorable set of events. Mr Brown was also clear that
there are several lessons to be learned from the whole Iraq episode.
