I must say that I find it most extraordinary that no British MP appears to be condemning thee death sentence just handed down to saddam Hussein. I grant you the guy was repugnant: a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of thousands, and I grant you that the Iraqi people have a right to do things as they seem fit, but to pile murder upon murder is to commit yet more barbarism. The logic seems to be as follows:

Nobody should kill people. Therefore killers should be punished. Therefore as punishment we kill the killer.

It’s absurd, and dare I say it uncivilised. Surely we have progressed further than this. Why, then, do we not condemn this action? We stopped hanging convicts forty years or so ago.

[dad hands matt the Sunday times]

but then again, how can we judge the Iraqis for making this decision when we speak of ‘euthanasia’ for very small kids? Yes, they might be disabled. So what? We outlaw murder and we outlaw hanging, but somehow its okay to let small children die. How is that logical? Would they have let me die? Was I disabled enough? Where do you draw the line. It’s not logical.

These ‘doctors’ are supposed to be clever. They’re not. They’re no better than Hussein.