{"id":21234,"date":"2010-11-17T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21234"},"modified":"2010-11-17T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:13:54","slug":"talabani-wont-sign-aziz-death-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21234","title":{"rendered":"Talabani won’t sign Aziz death warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard that Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Taiq Aziz was sentenced to death<\/a> a few weeks ago. The president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, is refusing to sign the death warrant<\/a> for Taziz’ execution;<\/p>\n

“I cannot sign an order of this kind because I am a Socialist,” Talabani said. “I feel compassion for Tariq Aziz because he is a Christian, an Iraqi Christian.”<\/p>\n

“In addition, he is an elderly man \u2014 aged over 70 \u2014 and this is why I will never sign this order,” Talabani said in Arabic through a translator. He was speaking in Paris, where he attended a meeting of the Socialist International this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what being a Socialist has to do with it. I’m a conservative and oppose the death penalty because I don’t like the idea of a government having the power of life and death over it’s citizenry. Aziz was convicted on charges of persecution against members of the religious Shiite Dawa Party. If “persecution” is as bland as it sounds, I don’t think Aziz’ sentence should be carried out. <\/p>\n

It should be encouraging to Americans that a country in the Middle East is discussing whether a death sentence should be carried out. If he’d been sentenced in one of Iraq’s neighbors, Aziz would only exist as a memory at this point.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jacobite for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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