Humane Bravery

November 22, 2010

Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, opposes to the death penalty for Tariq Aziz, one of Iraq's worst enemies.

By Christopher Hitchens

"When I wrote a recent call for the commutation of the death sentence against Tariq Aziz, I was privately hoping that the president of Iraq would intervene, as he has done before, to say that he would decline to sign his name to the death warrant."
Read More (Slate)

9 comments:

FGFM said...

Link fail.

Tom said...

fixed

Mark G said...

News flash: Talabani has a well-deserved reputation as being a totally crooked politicians in Kurdistan. See even Jerry Weinberger's piece in the Weekly Standard.

Anonymous said...

@Mark G: You already made your comment on slate, so skulk back to hitchenswatch and stay there, asshat.

Mark G said...

Fuck you, dipshit. I can go wherever I want.

Anonymous said...

Be kind to Mark G (aka "Dim"). He once told his students in Kurdistan that John O'Hara's "Appointment In Samara" is the best American novel about Iraq.

Anonymous said...

@Mark G

u mad bro?

Anonymous said...

No. He's Dim.

FGFM said...

You already made your comment on slate

Decent posting monitor.

 
 
 

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