Saddam....30 days and counting

[BC_MoM]

Sorta creepy, I doubt "Earth" has hanged anyone is years. I mean, it does seem a tad inhumane, even if he does deserve it. *gets slightly creeped out*

Ooh.. I see what you're saying! That is creepy.

I still think it's creepy, too, that you're all celebrating about hanging (forget who it is for a moment, please).

[popcornbird]

He is gone. He is gone from this world, and is now in the Hands of God, his Creator, the One in Whose hands we will all return to after we leave this world. God is Just, and will deal with him, and everyone, in justice. We have no place to 'judge' anymore, now that he is gone. God will do the ultimate justice, and deal with him accordingly.

Enough said. This war has killed way too many innocent people for me to care about this. Killing Saddam isn't going to bring anyone's loved ones back. It isn't going to bring back the people he killed. It isn't going to bring back the thousands of innocent Iraqi children, or mothers, or fathers, that the US bombs killed. It isn't going to serve any purpose. I've never liked Saddam, but truly, no matter how much anyone hates him, this 'hanging' will serve absolutely no purpose, at all. I don't care. I hate the war more than I hate Saddam or anyone else, and as far as I'm concerned, the war is still going on, and innocent people are still being killed...each and every day. This will not make any difference.

[BC_MoM]

popcornbird, I agree 101% with what you said.

[Sevaede]

"What other options were there left? He killed many, many people. A lot of people see it as a punishment. As in... what was there left to do? Should he have been left unpunished? What would have been more suitable?"

That seems to me what a large chunk of people who are pro-Saddam execution are saying.

Perhaps exile on a deserted isle would have been better.

[wombat2u2004]

"What other options were there left? He killed many, many people. A lot of people see it as a punishment."

This I have to agree with.

Even tho I am against the death penalty... the real question here is "What is the alternative???" Sure, we could lock him away forever and throw the key away, but really......... does the man deserve to live after committing such crimes against his own people ???? This man killed thousands of innocent men, women and children with chemicals such as cyanide and mustard gas......... what would you folk wish on someone like that who would do the same to your families ???
Saddam Hussein was a butcher, nothing more, and nothing less....he was judged fairly by a court of law, and sentenced according to the laws of his own country....laws that he himself was obviously immune to whilst in power.
Even tho I am a Christian (and I believe a good one), I believe that this man does not deserve to be among the living.
Sorry if I have offended anyone

[Pam]

"What other options were there left? He killed many, many people. A lot of people see it as a punishment."

This I have to agree with.

Even tho I am against the death penalty... the real question here is "What is the alternative???" Sure, we could lock him away forever and throw the key away, but really......... does the man deserve to live after committing such crimes against his own people ???? This man killed thousands of innocent men, women and children with chemicals such as cyanide and mustard gas......... what would you folk wish on someone like that who would do the same to your families ???
Saddam Hussein was a butcher, nothing more, and nothing less....he was judged fairly by a court of law, and sentenced according to the laws of his own country....laws that he himself was obviously immune to whilst in power.
Even tho I am a Christian (and I believe a good one), I believe that this man does not deserve to be among the living.
Sorry if I have offended anyone

You did not offend me at all. I agree completely. In this country we executed Timothy McVeigh. His crime again his fellow human beings was on a much smaller scale than Saddam's but the victims' souls of both of these men cry out for justice. No it won't bring anyone back, but it is the way that justice is served. Saddam's end came about through a civilized course of events. I don't think anyone is saying rest in peace because it is ludicrous to believe that he is now anywhere where he might be resting or peaceful. To quote one of the Iraqis that I saw on TV last night "he got what he deserved."

[wombat2u2004]

"Saddam's end came about through a civilized course of events"
That is so true. And that is much more than his victims ever received. They had no trial, there was no justice, nothing....they were just murdered because they probably offended him....or even less.
Wom

[trayi52]

Pam, I completely agree with you. He got what he deserved. Letting him go free, or just putting him in prison would have been very dangerous. Who's to say he would not have escaped from prison and regained control over Iraq? No, he is where he ought to be, right where Timothy McVeigh is.
I hate this war too, I wish the men and women could just come on home right this very minute. I don't understand any of it myself!

I am not saddened by Saddam's death at all, I keep seeing all the men, women and children's faces that he killed, had his owned son-in-laws killed too! Just to much to deal with.

Willie

[JenBKR]

"What other options were there left? He killed many, many people. A lot of people see it as a punishment."

This I have to agree with.

Even tho I am against the death penalty... the real question here is "What is the alternative???" Sure, we could lock him away forever and throw the key away, but really......... does the man deserve to live after committing such crimes against his own people ???? This man killed thousands of innocent men, women and children with chemicals such as cyanide and mustard gas......... what would you folk wish on someone like that who would do the same to your families ???
Saddam Hussein was a butcher, nothing more, and nothing less....he was judged fairly by a court of law, and sentenced according to the laws of his own country....laws that he himself was obviously immune to whilst in power.
Even tho I am a Christian (and I believe a good one), I believe that this man does not deserve to be among the living.
Sorry if I have offended anyone

I agree. I feel a little torn about the whole thing, because I don't know how I feel about the death penalty, but Saddam was compared to Hitler. I know he didn't go as far as Hitler, but the similarities are there. I don't know that I could celebrate his death, as I don't think I could celebrate anyone's death, but I am not sad he's gone.

[anna_66]

He is gone. He is gone from this world, and is now in the Hands of God, his Creator, the One in Whose hands we will all return to after we leave this world. God is Just, and will deal with him, and everyone, in justice. We have no place to 'judge' anymore, now that he is gone. God will do the ultimate justice, and deal with him accordingly.

Enough said. This war has killed way too many innocent people for me to care about this. Killing Saddam isn't going to bring anyone's loved ones back. It isn't going to bring back the people he killed. It isn't going to bring back the thousands of innocent Iraqi children, or mothers, or fathers, that the US bombs killed. It isn't going to serve any purpose. I've never liked Saddam, but truly, no matter how much anyone hates him, this 'hanging' will serve absolutely no purpose, at all. I don't care. I hate the war more than I hate Saddam or anyone else, and as far as I'm concerned, the war is still going on, and innocent people are still being killed...each and every day. This will not make any difference.

I couldn't agree with you more.

I have been working all day the last two days and haven't seen the news and was surprised when I logged on this morning to see that the deed was already done.

[finn's mom]

I think he's better off dead. Not necessarily for the sake of the world, but, for the sake of himself. I don't think he was a healthy man. I have no interest whatsoever in seeing a video or even photographs of his hanging, though I don't disagree with him being executed. It really doesn't make a lot of difference at this point, but, I'm sure it's closure for a lot of people.

[BC_MoM]

^The front of my newspaper. *shakes head*

[RICHARD]

Imagine that.....a threesome and pigs flying!!
and Team Canada makes it to the semis!!! Far out!

[Twisterdog]

I honestly didn't care too much about this one way or another. IMO, he's just one cog, albeit a sadistic one, in a huge machine of death, destruction and misery.

However, I have to say, that I am truly and totally appalled by the graphic news coverage of the hanging. My husband was watching it on public TV this morning ... right in the middle of prime cartoon-viewing time for kids!

Yes, he was an evil person. Yes, the US is going to see his death as a feather in its hat. However ... I still think showing an actual execution of ANYone on public television, on the MSN homepage on the internet, etc. is going a bit far.

He's dead now. Right or wrong, good or bad, whatever ... let it go.

[Alysser]

He is gone. He is gone from this world, and is now in the Hands of God, his Creator, the One in Whose hands we will all return to after we leave this world. God is Just, and will deal with him, and everyone, in justice. We have no place to 'judge' anymore, now that he is gone. God will do the ultimate justice, and deal with him accordingly.

Enough said. This war has killed way too many innocent people for me to care about this. Killing Saddam isn't going to bring anyone's loved ones back. It isn't going to bring back the people he killed. It isn't going to bring back the thousands of innocent Iraqi children, or mothers, or fathers, that the US bombs killed. It isn't going to serve any purpose. I've never liked Saddam, but truly, no matter how much anyone hates him, this 'hanging' will serve absolutely no purpose, at all. I don't care. I hate the war more than I hate Saddam or anyone else, and as far as I'm concerned, the war is still going on, and innocent people are still being killed...each and every day. This will not make any difference.

I agree with this 110%. This war has gone on far longer then it should have.