Saddam....30 days and counting

[Kfamr]

The whole thing disgusts me.
I don't disagree with him dying however, why is there a need for people to watch? All there was needed was one person doing the deed and one person video taping it for those who needed proof. No one needed to be there shouting at him. There was no reason for onlookers. That made us sink to his level, in my opinion.

[junescrater716]

Junescrater, when did I say killing him is inhumane?????????

Buttercup, when did I say I wanted him alive?????

I only said he's now in God's hands, God will deal with him in His supreme justice, AND, it makes no difference to me either way. I really don't care. It doesn't matter to me. He's dead, fine...he's dead. Its not like its going to end the war, or prevent other evil people in this world from harming innocent people.

Learn to read and understand the English language.

I didn't mean YOU I meant the other person. The first sentence was directed to you. lol

[junescrater716]

The reason why it was put on tv was because the people from Iraq wanted to be sure that he really was dead. They wanted to be sure that they were free from his "rule".

[K9soul]

I agree with you Kay, and the others who were bothered by the "celebratory" nature of this situation. It really creeps me out that people would want to hunt down a video and watch it happen. It creeps me out when people would act gleeful and celebratory of an execution. My feeling is it should be viewed as justice, with more an attitude of grimness, something that needed to be done, something his own people sentenced him to and carried out. Laughing and jeering and making a spectacle of it bothers me very much. This isn't directed at anyone here, just some attitudes in general I have seen around me. Something about the whole thing makes me uneasy, though I couldn't exactly say why. My belief is that his fate is in God's hands now, his soul is for God to judge.

[RICHARD]

The Cincinnati Bengals fans are pushing to have Death by Hanging reinstated.

The new law will only apply to placekickers on the football team.

[Husky15]

The whole thing disgusts me.
I don't disagree with him dying however, why is there a need for people to watch? All there was needed was one person doing the deed and one person video taping it for those who needed proof. No one needed to be there shouting at him. There was no reason for onlookers. That made us sink to his level, in my opinion.

Couldn't agree with you more.

[lizbud]

No one needed to be there shouting at him. There was no reason for onlookers. That made us sink to his level, in my opinion.

kay. what us? He was tried in an Iragi court, by an Iragi judge, and
sentenced to death under Iragi law.Hanging is legal in that country.They
control the courts & set the" arena" for the execution (how many can be
in the room, etc.)

No one has to hunt down the link to the video. It was within an NBC
news website.

[lizbud]

The Cincinnati Bengals fans are pushing to have Death by Hanging reinstated.

The new law will only apply to placekickers on the football team.

I'll have to check that play out on the sports news tonight.

[mugsy]

What I don't understand is why so many Americans are having hissy fits about him being hanged when the Iraqi people are the people who convicted him and sentenced him to die and were happy when he did die. He was an evil despot who was responsible for incredible human suffering...is he the only one...not a chance...is there one fewer despots in the world...yes...does that make me happy?? You bet. I don't think there was ever anyone who said that Saddam's death would solve everything or end this war, but, it's one step...tiny as it may be...he's gone and cannot destroy any more lives, and for that I am beyond pleased. As far as hanging being inhumane...I don't think so...but, maybe in his time with the noose around his neck and before they dropped the bottom out, he knew a little of the fear that his victims knew before they were tortured and killed.

[K9soul]

No one has to hunt down the link to the video. It was within an NBC
news website.

The actual video footage of the hanging happening, or the footage from Iraqi news that showed right up to the point of the noose being placed but did not show the actual hanging? I haven't seen either, but I read an article that described the videos. And I guess what I meant was people who jumped online the moment they heard and went looking for a video so they could watch a man die. I understand feeling of satisfaction that justice was done. To me there is a difference between that and feeling glee as in 'YES! woohoo! I can't wait to see the video of his neck snapping!"

If anyone here does feel that way, that's their right. But I can't help but feel disturbed by it.

[junescrater716]

go to ebaumsworld.com and you can see the hanging.

[lizbud]

The Indy Channel is a local TV news site. It's one I read every day.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/10640601/detail.html

[Edwina's Secretary]

What I don't understand is why so many Americans are having hissy fits about him being hanged when the Iraqi people are the people who convicted him and sentenced him to die and were happy when he did die.

Interesting...hissy fit. As I recall they were some people who had "hissy fits" about wanting to take out Saddam. But of course...the US had NOTHING to do with it? It was just the Iraqi people...right....

I find it interesting too, that some people who said the reason we went to Iraq in the first place was to get rid of Saddam (since there was no connection with 9/11 and no WMD) are now saying....taking Saddam out won't solve anything.

So tell me again...WHY are our sons and daughters dying there? Why are so many lives being destroyed there?

I am with Kay on this.

[Vela]

But the question begs, why would anyone WANT to see a hanging? That's digusting and kinda sick to me, that anyone wants to watch someone else die, even if they felt they deserved it. I find it horrfying that anyone would actually film it or post it anywhere and that people would actually watch it.

[Argranade]

Sorry to say this but honestly I think only a looder would watch that video.