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07-25-2003, 02:01 AM
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Sic semper tyrannis
In April 1945 as the ranks of Italian partisans, or resistance fighters, swelled and the Allied armies advanced north, Mussolini fled toward Switzerland hidden in a retreating German army convoy. Near Lake Como, partisans captured him. The next day, April 28, 1945, at Giulino di Mezzegra, Mussolini was tried in a summary court-martial and executed (shot) with his mistress, Clara Petacci. Their bodies, brought to Milan, were hanged in a public square and then buried in an unmarked grave. Mussolini's body was later removed, and in 1957 it was placed in his family's vault.
Many Italian’s jeered at the Duce and his vixen mistress, or so I have read somewhere, as they hung in the square. Hanging the bodies up in a public square was a healthy catharsis for the Italian people. Maybe the same thing would be good for the Iraqi’s. 
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#5
07-25-2003, 08:00 PM
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Re: Sic semper tyrannis
Zeno,
The situation between Iraq and Italy is different. It would have been a real victory for the US to capture Saddam's sons alive and put them on trail for human rights violations. Instead, the two deaths have created doubts. Even though a group of Iraqi's have identified the bodies, there are citizens that believe that the sons are not dead because they think that this group of Iraqi's are "in bed" with the US. I hope that we can capture Saddam Hussein alive. Put him on trial for theft and human rights violations in the world court. Politically, this is much better for the US. Mark
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#9
07-25-2003, 11:18 PM
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Re: Sic semper tyrannis
Yes, it would be much better politically. Hopefully it will be possible. Also, I think the Iraqis should try him, not the World Court. After they try him they should hang him and do to his body what the mob did to Mussolini. And I'll bet they will if we let them.
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