Saddam - a tyrant who deserved a traitor's death or a patriot who achieved martyrdom?
Somak Adhikari
Jul. 8, 2007

As the world prepared to enter 2007, Saddam Hussein breathed his last breath in his homeland of Iraq. The hangman's noose ended his life. Several questions still remain unanswered. The most important one is the status of Saddam in history. Will he be remembered as a tyrant or a man who died without fear at the hands of the American imperialists?

Basically what needs to be analyzed is whether Saddam is more dangerous dead, than when he was alive. Did Bush create a blunder by letting Saddam die? Did Saddam achieve true victory over America through his death? Did he achieve something he could not have accomplished in his lifetime?

There is no doubt that Saddam was a harsh and cruel dictator but one thing that cannot be ignored is the fact that he never submitted to the Americans, and preferred defeat over outright surrender. He is a man who, until the very last minute of his life, did not budge from the stand he had taken against Bush since 2003.

His death closes one chapter in Iraq's history, but at the same time it also opens another. In the eyes of his people he was a despot when he was alive, but his death gave him martyrdom. The act of killing him is not relevant, however the timing certainly is. The only reason America had control over Iraq was the lack of unity among the Iraqis. Saddam's death may have united Iraq, which is not what Bush had wanted. Had a court of his own people executed him, justice would have been served. But the court represented puppets of the American Government and it was just plain, simple murder in the eyes of the rest of the world.

The day he was captured by American forces in 2003, Saddam was destined to die. The only thing that mattered was when and how. By killing him, America has denied Iraq its right to punish Saddam. Saddam did not create a lack of problems when he was alive, and as a dead man he is doing the same. As far as history is concerned one must remember that victors command it. The Americans will refer to him as a despot, but Iraq shall consider him a martyr. Only time will tell if Saddam will be remembered in history as a tyrant who deserved a traitor's death or a patriot who achieved martyrdom.

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