Reply #15: Bush: Saddam execution made to look like "revenge killing"

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http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=5947637&nav=2KPp

Bush: Saddam execution made to look like "revenge killing"

WHITE HOUSE President Bush says the Iraqi government "fumbled" Saddam Hussein's execution, and the hanging ended up looking like a "revenge killing."

In his toughest words yet about the execution, he told an interviewer it shows the Iraqi government still has "some maturation to do."

Interviewed by "The P-B-S NewsHour", the president said he told Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (NOO'-ree ahl-MAHL'-ih-kee) he's "disappointed" with how the execution was handled. Bush says an event that should have closed an ugly chapter in Iraqi history has instead sent "a mixed signal."

Still, he says Saddam was tried -- and received "justice that he didn't give to others."