also if you said yes, do you agree with the hanging or would you choose a different method of execution?
2006-11-13 14:14:17 · 37 answers · asked by gets flamed 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Robin R well i'm sorry that i'm politically correct you know it all bastard.
2006-11-13 14:19:39 · update #1
Listen I am all American. I am a veteran of Vietnam, and the father of one, grandfather of one. I feel sorry for Saddam. We supported him in the 80s, and left him out to dry in 2000s. He is a rough neck tough guys, who had Iraq under control. Bush invaded his nation, and brought him down. Not a good man, but a honest man I think he is. I don't want to see him hang.
We left him out to dry!
I know this is an unpopular view
2006-11-13 14:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 6⤋
"YES" but not by hanging, I have something a lot longer in mind...
Unless we are a citizens of Iraq, I don't see where it would be of our doing!
As citizens of the world we should extend the same mercy to all, as we would surely wish extended to ours and our self.
Every person should live long enough to ask forgiveness, with out the threat of death being imminent.
In the bible it says "an eye for an eye" , I think it was "Gods" eye, not yours or mine, and the court said the other was "Saddams"
I just think we should let Saddam and his God, work it out...
We can yet learn from him, an opportunity not afforded by most criminals of his stature, Adolf Hitler for one.
Leniency may quell the rebellion with in Iraq, and lead to an exit strategy for American soldiers.
Ultimately all sides will save face, and lives.
Simply letting one man, meet his maker on his makers time schedule, may be, a far worse sentence, only time would tell.
2006-11-13 14:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by diSota 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, WE are not hanging him, this is the sole product of the Iraqi government. Second, hanging is the preferred method in Iraq. Third, Saddam requested that he be shot like a soldier not hung like a common criminal. Although he was a ruthless tyrant, he was still a soldier and I think he deserves at least the type of death he requests. But he definately should be executed to pay for his crimes.
Political correctness has nothing to do with it man, I'm saying that this death sentence came from an Iraqi court, you should not ask people what WE should do, WE should not have anything to do with another country's court system. We helped this country gain its freedom and that is fine, but we do not have the right to sentence him to death, the Iraqi people do, and that is what they decided to do. Normally they hang in Iraq, but Saddam requested he die like a soldier. Everything I have said in this second paragraph is pure fact, and I'm sorry if I offended you somehow, though I do not see how I could have. And don't call me a bastard.
2006-11-13 14:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
yeah right - hang him - Americans probably think of this as "justice." Even though they have no idea of the history of Iraq or the ties that America shared with him. But his death won't bring back the people he killed just as we can't bring back the thousands that have died since the US invaded.The only thing his death will do is shut him up - he can be such an embarassment to so many.
Hang him and we make him a martyr. When will Americans understand that this is not about the U.S.?
2006-11-13 15:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by Cowboy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not a matter of "we." The courts in Iraq have found Saddam guilty and are the ones who sentenced him to death by hanging. So it WILL happen. In these countries, if you're sentenced to death, then you die. There's no sitting in a prison for four years taking appeal after appeal, like we have in America.
No matter what public opinion is of it, it's what their court has decided.
2006-11-13 16:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by bennyjoe81 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Robin.....you aren't a bastard but well educated on the whole Irag thing. I agree with you!
2006-11-13 15:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by Mustang Sally 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
easy to say if you dont have to do it personally
I think it is up to his own people.
this will only create more hate against Americans
but this is what the government wants i think
to prepare the climate for the coming Nuclear war.
2006-11-13 14:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Strategically speaking, I think it's a mistake. I think we should take every opportunity we can get to demonstrate the falsehood of his claims about our barbarism. It would be poetic justice to make him the instrument of such.
2006-11-13 14:25:49 · answer #8 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I agree with Robin R, he is right.
2006-11-13 14:32:04 · answer #9 · answered by Jenn B 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree with Timothy. The ones who funded and set him up to take the fall should be hung, not him.
2006-11-13 14:24:51 · answer #10 · answered by BSG 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋