Bildt on Saddam: right verdict, wrong sentence

[Stockholm]

In response to the death sentence passed on Saddam Hussein on Sunday morning, Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has said that it is extremely satisfying that the former dictator has been made to answer for his crimes and that the first verdict has now been handed down.

"It is of the utmost importance that those who bear the highest responsibility for the serious and massive abuses of human rights of the previous regime now answer for their actions," he said in a press statement.

But at the same time, Bildt expressed regret that Iraq has not chosen to abolish the death penalty.

"Sweden and the European Union's position on the matter is well-known and our rejection of the death penalty is without exception," he said.

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Not bad coming from a Swedish wingnut:thumbsup: