Saddam....30 days and counting

[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

[GreyhoundGirl]

Surprisingly, it's not getting as much publicity as I thought, either. I expected it to be huge thing with the newspapers. In the newspaper here, Saddam was on the 10th page, the front page picture was some people dressed up for new years in a bar.

But then again, what was probably the queen's last visit to Canada, the paper had a picture of a guy in a chicken suit on the front cover.

Apperently he was petitioning KFC, against that PETA cruelty to chickens charge. We're going to eat them, HELLO! The guy didn't even know his facts. (the guy in a chicken suit, not saddam )

[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.