and yes he deserved it. but execution is disgusting regardless, does anyone agree that a sound penal system could have spared us from this barbarity.
i hated Sadam Hussain and all the oppresion he stood for, but surley the subbject that gives us the higher ground (if any) is that in the west we preach non barbarity.....punish him in the cells and show him his crimes.........cold blooded killings are wrong
2006-12-29 16:21:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
you all have valid points......i still think execution brings us down to the same level as the lowlifes who butchered inocent civilians live on i net and al jazeera.....we are better than that..
i am not an american
2006-12-29 16:31:14 · update #1
mopar.....yes i have
2006-12-29 16:32:02 · update #2
azooga yes i do
2006-12-29 16:47:12 · update #3
jam join me in the real world on my next tour of afgan or iraq....who are you to judge me
2006-12-29 18:06:47 · update #4
simon please elabeATE (SORRY PISSED) are you saying all dictators are
equell but some are more equal than others....sorry pissed
2006-12-29 20:57:50 · update #5
Personally I'm in favour of the death penalty especially for paedophiles who cannot be rehabilited. (hope you can read the long words as you are pissed).
In Saddam's case.... what is it really going to solve? Will it bring stability to the Middle East, no. Will it resolve Iraq's problems, no. Was a step forward in the right direction? No. Does it undo any of the wrong? No. Does it bring family and loved ones back? No.
And the war was never about what he did to his opponents and the Kurds. This war was about his capability to own and create a nuclear arsenal. If he was to be tried for crimes against humanity, then he should have received a fair trial in the Haague and not in an Iraqi court created by America.
And what now of Robert Mugabe? Are we going after him now for crimes against the people of his country? And what about all of the other dictators, are we going to bring them to justice now and get them hung at dawn? Bet you @rse we ain't.
So what is this all about? Oil? Maybe. Personally I haven't a bloody clue.
2006-12-29 21:19:36 · answer #1 · answered by This is not ellie29uk 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Although many of us share your views, its not really about OUR views, customs and culture in this instance.
It is not anyone in the west, who demanded or requested that Saddam should be executed - it was his own people.
It would be WRONG and presumptious of us, to want to control how he is punished for his crimes: after all - it was the Iraqi people who suffered under him, not us.
Is it not MORE barbaric, to impose our own type of cruel punishment on someone (make him perish and wither in a cell until he dies) when in Arab culture and custom, it is considered appropriate to be executed?
Who are WE to decide what is more humane/unbarbaric and then force our wills onto others?
Saddam lived his life, perpetrated his crimes as an Arab, in an Islamic culture. It is fitting that he dies by those rules too.
Who knows - perhaps, in his custom and culture, there is salvation after paying for your crimes with your life.
2006-12-29 16:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by Biker B 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think the death penalty is horrific - I would like to think that all killers get a life sentence, and I mean a life sentence. However, he was killed under Iraq law, put in place by Saddam himself. He wasn't killed by the West. Thank goodness.
2006-12-29 20:21:51 · answer #3 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read it on my computer that Saddam has been hung,yet in Yahoo Ireland and UK, the news says that he is to be hung in a few hours.--All Yahoo news.Yes a sound penal system could have spared us this barbarity.
2006-12-29 16:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He is dead, and to think of it, people over in Iraq may be wondering why they have been killing us for no reason...NOT. I do think Saddam shouldn't of been killed, I mean...it was very very VERY wrong all that he did, but they should like put him on an uncharted island and let him fend for himself. Ha! Give him a cow to live off of...you agree?
-Azooga-
2006-12-29 16:36:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
where did you hear that he was dead i just checked and they said in a few hours
but,
it is gonna make waves .many will be angered and he will turn into a martyr
,but this is the idea to annoy the Arab world and provoke a reaction ,so that America can retaliate hundred fold.that is the plan
and are you not being a teeny weeny hypocritical America has killed more people cold blooded in the last hundred years than anyone else including all the individual factions they have armed to wipe each other out,in Central and South America,Asia and Africa.
2006-12-29 16:24:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Considering how this whole war has been going, I think it's a little late to be worring about bararity. We've already killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. This is like a drop in the bucket.
2006-12-29 16:26:56 · answer #7 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes I agree with you. The other reason is that Saddam was not the only criminal of the kind, Bush & Tony are of the same kind, they should meet the same penality.
2006-12-29 17:56:43 · answer #8 · answered by glover 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Judging by the amount of party line answers the only opinion I can come to, being a left, right and middle voter, is that Orwell was right.
2006-12-29 19:02:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats what i like approximately you -you-tube- conspiracy nuts, in spite of video data, you question it. he's lifeless. Whats next, we did no longer land on the moon, there wasn't a holocaust? the place does it end?
2016-10-28 17:04:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋