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Saddam Hussein to be hanged TONIGHT!

All the reports from FOX news suggest that it will be tape recorded, but not released to the public. To me, there is no issue as to whether or not he had thousands killed. We should've taken care of him years ago, especially when he gassed the Kurds of northern Iraq.
 
eyez0nme said:
We know..

But the real question is--is Iraq better off with Saddam or worse? :eek:

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That's easy. They're better off with Saddam out of the way.

The REAL question is: would they have been better off if we never started this war? (Yes)
 
eyez0nme said:
We know..

But the real question is--is Iraq better off with Saddam or worse? :eek:

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You raise an excellent point eyez. Saddam is acknowledged by respectable sources to have killed 300,000 people. He was undoubtedly guilty of the crimes that he was accused of, and if there is a valid criticism, it is that it did not occur sooner. The gassing of the Kurds was one of the most barbaric acts that ever occured.

My opinion about Iraq is somewhat mixed. I don't believe that they possessed WMDs and that Bush and Blair massaged the facts. They also developed a poor plan in going into Iraq. At the same time, it has to be acknowledged that Iraq's neighbors are stirring the current strife that is going on. Just recently, Iranian agents were captured and were caught red handed in helping the insurgents. Their efforts for peace could be a lot better IMHO. Their claims otherwise are truly insulting.:rolleyes:
 
I'm really not a fan of capital punishment, but I have to admit that I thought Saddam should be executed. He was a constant threat to the lives of millions while alive, even in jail. No one's going to try to bust Charles Manson out of jail, but certainly there's some supporter who would do so for Saddam Hussein. And the last thing we need is the mere possibility that he could gain power again.
 
This caught me completely by surprise. I spent the morning shopping and only found out when I came home around lunch time. I just couldn't believe it they had done it so soon.

I regret the decision to execute Saddam: firstly I object to the death penalty, and am disappointed the USA, in their typical cowboy attitude, congratuled the government of Iraq for this decision when everyone else opposed; secondly I'm afraid Saddam the martyr will only cause more suffering.
 
He gassed the Kurds 20 years ago, and that is not the reason we invaded. So why now does the media/Gov make it seem like this trial for crimes against humanity was our plan all along, when we're 2 decades late? Maybe because we ran out of other legitimate reasons to be there...

1. We accused Saddam of being involved with the 9/11 attacks, which turned out to be false.
2. We accused Saddam of harboring "terrorists", including members of Al-Qaeda, which turned out to be false
3. We accused Saddam of having the same type of WMD's that we have had for decades and actually USED on 2 cities in Japan. No WMD's were ever found in Iraq.

I'm rambling...
 
There is a video of Saddam's execution now online, if anyone is interested in watching it for curiosity's sake. I wont link it here though.
 
As for the WMD comment, I just have to add...I think that if we want to say, "Hey, you on the other side of the globe--throw away your weapons," we have to be the first people to do so. The atomic bomb is a blight upon the face of humanity and can bring absolutely no good to the world. All it brings is burning death followed by years' worth of carcinogens. It's a weapon that should not even exist, yet the bombs we have developed now are smaller and even more potent than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If we're not planning on using them again, we certainly don't need them and they should be disposed of and construction on new bombs should cease.
 
I agree with Heteronym on this one - I'm opposed to the death penalty, and I think that all this has done is made a martyr out of him.
 
I haven't watched the video, and I won't, but one of my Muslim friends told me that he did, and that it was bad. He said that people were kicking the body and yelling at him, although I don't remember what he said they were saying. I did see pictures of the body on the news, and the neck was very obviously broken. I guess everyone else saw those pictures as well.
 
I agree with Monkeycatcher - but not only has Hussein been made into a martyr for those who look up to him and/or share his ideals, but I feel this is a step backward in what the West claims it is trying to achieve in Iraq.

I have read some details of Hussein's trial in the past couple of days, and I am amazed at the nature of it. To not be tried by the UN for war crimes seems to me a great travesty. Instead, Hussein was tried for the deaths of 148 (? -ish) people in what I assume was an isolated incident.

I thought that the swift handing down of a death sentence was one of the things that the war is supposed to be stopping. Isn't this why Hussein was executed? Shouldn't we lead by example?

I suppose, a little of the topic, it depends on your views of the afterlife. If you belive in heaven and hell, you are undoubtedly relieved if not happy that Hussein is burningg right now. If you don't (as I don't), then what? I feel cheated, as a supporter of basic human rights, that Hussein is not being made to repent and regret his crimes against humanity by rotting in a prison cell.
 
I think Saddam could still be a martyr rotting in his cell, and then he might be broken out. I'm not aboslutely certain about whether or not it was a good thing that he was killed; just something to think about.
 
Saddam Hussein's cat:

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