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Australians Report Iraqi PM executed suspected insurgents

Drudge features an interesting story from Australia claiming that the new Iraqi Prime Minister personally executed six suspected Iraqi terrorists/insurgents.

Assuming this is all true, some may call it a major scandal.

I call it a good start.

Once again, I maintain that Due Process is

the fortunate byproduct of a stable democracy, not an ingredient that can be used to build a democracy from scratch while a country is still currently at war with the forces of tyrrany.

For anyone to demand the exacting scrutiny of a Western-style democracy on Iraq at this specific juncture is off their rocker in my view. Such people can't be serious about winning the war on terrorism.

What Drudge linked to is definitely a major story. It's just not a major scandal.

As long as there is genuinely good reason to believe that these people supported the insurgency, then this PM seems to be the right man at the right time.

Posted by Justin Levine at July 16, 2004 02:18 PM | TrackBack