Do you think Saddam Hussein deserves to die or do you think it should be protested by human rights activists?

Question

Iraq's highest appeals court, on Tuesday upheld the execution order of Saddam Hussein. The country's former leader is set to hang and the court ordered the sentence to be carried out within the next 30 days. U.N. human rights experts have called on Iraq's government not to carry out the death sentence, saying Saddam's trial was seriously flawed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061226/ts_nm/iraq_dc_6

I definitely think he should die.

Answer 1

Where were these groups when he was gassing and torturing thousands upon thousands of innocent people? Let him hang, let him rot, and televise the whole thing.

Answer 2

I'm not saying I agree with what Saddam did. But Bush ordered the torture and deaths of millions of U.S.A soldiers and Iraqi innocent citizens, but he wasn't executed. Most of Saddam's terrible acts were in fact Bush's fault. Bush deserves death more than Saddam, after all he caused the whole Iraq war, but of coarse any power hungry politician who started an entire war based on made up reports and framed Saddam for all the dirty work he has done will never be executed as long as he is from U.S.A. The true villain is George f*cking Bush.

Answer 3

It's sweet that you cite Iraq's "highest appeals court"- there's no such thing, except invented 3 days ago. Also the trial was flawed as the US dismissed 2 judges for no good reason until they got one who did what they wanted, ie sentence to death.

He will be hanged soon because he is also accused of the gassing of of 100's of thousands of Kurds, with gas supplied by the US for that purpose.
That is the reason we are invited to believe that a 30 day, come what may, "sentence" will be carried out, regardless of other scheduled trials, in which it would be inevitable that the US was proved a co conspiritor.
I'm not a conspiracy freak, it's just obvious in this case.

Answer 4

It's not whether he "deserves" to die. It's whether his execution will be seen as legitimate within the Middle East given the problems of due process. If the execution pushes Iraq and the region deeper into civil war, it didn't accomplish much, did it? Believe it or not, the U.S. is pretty much alone among the developed countries in pushing the death penalty. It does tend to alienate other countries, which is the last thing we need to be doing right now. Our go-it-alone, cowboy foreign policy has wrecked our standing in the world.

Answer 5

When you've killed as many people as he has.. You don't deserve to live. Plain and simple. There's no way ANYONE in the world can stand up for him, after what he's done.



By the way, they will hang him within the next 30 days. I read somewhere that the rope used to hang him is specifically made not to be elastic so it snaps his neck. There have been other types of rope that is elastic, and actually kills the prisoners of strangulation instead of a broken neck.

Answer 6

UN's human rights experts? I didn't know that the UN had an expert in any field. Talk about human rights. Saddam killed thousands of people by cutting off their heads, shooting them and gassing them with poison gas. He literally massacred the Kurds. He should die? What should we do with him? Hold a banquet?

Answer 7

We'll lets see....

After using Chemical Weapons (WMD to you Liberals out there), to Kill over 200,000 Iranians during the Iran/Iraq war. And after exterminating 5 to 8000 Kurds with more WMD's.

He should be elected Head of the U.S. Democratic Party or be the Next United Nations Secretary General.

Answer 8

I believe the human rights activists should have been running their mouths back when Saddam was ordering the mass murder of villagers in N Iraq. He needs to hang and soon. The UN needs to go sit down and shut it's corrupted yap and let us do their dirty work for them. As it has always been, it shall always be.

Answer 9

I think he deserves to die, and human rights really has no say in how it is done. HOWEVER, executing him will martyr him in the eyes of his followers, and reinforce their cause in their own minds.
in other-words, i believe allowing him to be executed, is only asking for more problems for our troops in Iraq.

history repeats itself, and all throughout history a man's message always is more powerful in his death than at anytime while he was alive.

and Rich B they were, since rummy was helping them get those "farm chemicals" and "farm equipment", and since the people complaining placed them on the Iranian's side, which where many of the people complaining, their words fell on deaf ears.
what do you think the cardinal meant when he said"the world doesn't hate us for our freedom, but the fact that the world's on deaf ears!"?

Answer 10

definite, that is needed that they difficulty AND that folk act upon the observations. to no longer gain this will bring about greater interior of sight outrage, violence, killing and tyranny. it somewhat is the appropriate occasion the place it is so important for justice to no longer basically be carried out, yet additionally considered to be carried out so as that peace can injury out via exhibiting Iraqis and the international community that regulation and order in Iraq could properly be depended directly to get issues precise via giving defendants a honest trial/listening to in spite of who they're or with what they're charged. The Iraqi infrastructure is basically too fragile to go through a self-inflicted blow. basic human beings could see that they are in a position to have confidence in 'the gadget'. The checklist via Human Rights Watch, if acted upon via the government, will help Iraq gain their targets for inner peace that little bit faster.

Answer 11

Who are the human rights activists his kids? Seriously, he was involved in so many mass murders and abusive events he does deserver to die now hanging is another story, that's gross and animalistic, being we are human beings and he's not we need to see his demolition carried out in a human procedure like lethal injection, then the human rights activists can say it was a humane end to an inhumane person.