Arab sense of honor should not lie with someone like Saddam. To feel a sense of humiliations one has to have sense of honor to start with!

With much disgust and contempt, I saw, on Aljazeera, the Jordanian politician Laith Shbeilat rants about how humiliating and how insulting to the Arabs and Arab nationalist Saddam Hussein’s execution was. I also read the article written by Ghada Karmi published in the Guardian on January 2nd, where she argued more eloquently why Saddam’s execution is again, humiliating to the Arabs and to Arab nationalist. I also watched on Aljazeera young children, in Gaza, holding pictures of Saddam, no doubt with some adults planting Saddam’s pictures for TV since I do not believe these children shown know any thing about Saddam, let alone express an opinion on his execution. Without doubt, the most difficult and cruel thing to see is watching an execution, even in Tom Hank’s movie the Green Mile. Saddam hanging was the right retribution.
I watched on few occasions the trial of Saddam and though I am convinced that it was a sham trial and was not executed and carried out in the same standard one saw in Maximilian Schell's movie “ Judgment at Nuremberg”, never the less the final judgment was not only correct but deserving. Saddam should have been executed long time ago, by his own people and not under the occupation. He was a killer and a mass murderer and the biggest traitor to the "Arab cause"
Sympathies to Saddam in certain countries like Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen and other countries goes back to the days when Saddam, acting as agent and proxy for the Neocons in the Reagan Administration waged his war against the new Islamic Republic of Iran. Saddam not only committed and wasted hundreds of billions of Iraqi and Gulf money to the war, not to mention wasting millions of his people, but was quite generous making sure that his agents and his “mokhabarat” went out to buy the hearts, souls, conscious and voice of so many Arab journalists, Arab intellectuals and Arab politicians. There were so many key Arab journalists, Arab intellectuals, Arab political parties, Arab labor and professional unions on the pay roll of the murderer Saddam Hussein and his Ba’athist party that it was an open secret. With the kind of money Saddam Hussein was spending no wonder these people who claims to be Arab nationalists, never opened their mouths let alone penned one signal article that spoke of the killing machine that Saddam was waging against his people. They all knew what was going on, but they lacked the courage, having been bought and sold by Saddam, they lacked the guts and the moral authority to speak out about Saddam’s crime. More troubling is the fact they made him a war hero when after 10 years of war, more than 2 million dead on both side of the war, Saddam returned to the point he started from and declared victory. People like Laith Shbeilat and others in Palestine, in Morocco and Egypt have no moral standing to speak out on behalf of Arabs and to speak about the humiliation Arab suffered as a result of Saddam’s executions. They should have spoken out way long time ago, when Saddam himself was committing for over 30 years his acts of humiliating the tens of millions of Iraqis and the millions of Arabs with his stupid, reckless wars on Iran and on Kuwait. If Arab honor rest with someone like Saddam, then the Arabs have no sense of honor to be humiliated in the first place. Arab intellectuals, journalist, politicians who were on the payroll of Saddam and who failed to speak out when he was committing his crimes against the Iraqi people, which is also crimes against the Arab people have no sense of honor and no sense of shame to be humiliated in the first place.The people and the present government of Iraq, sad to say proved they are no different from Saddam and his Ba’athist Party driven by sectarian hate and raw vengeance. I was hoping the Iraqi people would have the courage to drive Saddam out of power long time ago and hang him without the giving excuses to the American occupation that is ruining the country and driving it toward open civil war. Sad to say they have the courage to kill each other, but not drive a killer like Saddam out of power and did not have the courage to face up to his crimes. Shame on all the Arabs and all the Iraqis for being silent for too long. Let us not speak of Arab honors when we have none to speak of. The occupation of Iraq, Palestine and lack of democracy and freedoms in the Arab world does not speak well of Arab honor and dignity. When there is no sense of honor, there is also no sense of humiliations.