Especially, when the whole world is NOT under legal jurisdiction of USA.
2006-12-29 17:54:12 · 16 answers · asked by Amir 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's a fact that the so-called Iraqi courts are 101% controlled by White House. Human rights groups all cried that the court proceedings were flawed. I hold no brief for Saddam - and if the Iraqi people support death sentence, let them. But we live in a fallacious world, where rich America can do as they please. Time will judge this injustice!
2006-12-29 18:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm a pro-life, anti-death penalty, pacifist libertarian. I have no problem with the execution of Saddam. Yeah, he was tried under Iraqi courts and whatnot. I know we (the USA) probably have a huge hold on that whole spiel, but even so I don't think anyone in the world can deny he's guilty of murdering countless people. I doubt those murders can fall under a "difference of opinion". They're obviously far less liberal and more fundamentalist out there. So what's the problem with him being executed? Really, I guess its just a case of the ends justifying the means. Its not the best way to go about it, but doesn't every psychotic dictator eventually come crashing down and face the consequences?
2006-12-30 02:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by punk4god_2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For your information the USA was not involved in the trial of Saddam and his cronies. It was an Iraqi affair with a judge who was a Shiite. The Iraqi court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death. It was Iraqis who hung him. No one from the USA was at the hanging. Saddam was not hung for a difference of opinion. He was hung because he was a mass murderer having killed 2 million people. He gassed his own people (the Kurds), men ,women and children. Is this a difference of opinion? Murderers get the death penalty as it should be. Killing Saddam was absolutely OK. Imagine, this mass murderer went to the scaffold holding the qu'ran in his hand. He killed 2 million people and he thinks he is going to Paradise? He is now in hell with Hitler, Stalin and all the others.
2006-12-30 02:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by wunderkind 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gassing of the Kurds was just a difference of opinion? I guess Hitler just had a difference of opinion with the Jews and John Wayne Gacy had a difference of opinion with young men, or OJ just had a difference of opinion with his wife.
If you are truly believing what you write in your question, do you think the Iraqi court that tried him should have just given him some community service or something? Maybe have him coach the local debate team, so they can learn how to better solve their differences of opinions with others by talking it out.
Give me a break, if it was up to you he would spend the rest of his life in a an American jail watching cable tv for 16 hours a day.
2006-12-30 03:14:13 · answer #4 · answered by jkoons 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was handed over to the Iraqi authorities. The death penalty existed in Iraq long before the USA invaded the country.
Only the people of Iraq have a right to vote in a referendum as to whether or not they would like to keep the death penalty going in their country. It is for no one else to decide.
2006-12-30 02:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by Alletery 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless you lived in Iraq and under that cruels mans rule you have no say Get over it The people of Iraq. killed him and they had every right to do so.Saddam never had sympathy for anyone so why do you all care so much about him I wish all of you Saddam supporters would just go away
2006-12-30 02:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by deb m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference of opinion...he gassed thousands of Kurds. Men, women, and children, he didn't care. Somebody has to stand up against something so obviously wrong. I would hope that if somebody in this country were doing something like that, another country would step in.
2006-12-30 02:07:42 · answer #7 · answered by jpmny333 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is not a difference of opinion, humanity widely accepts that genocide is wrong. I think he should rot in prison instead of being hung but I don't for one second believe they will actually hang him no matter what they say.
2006-12-30 02:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The families of the hundreds of Iraqis killed by him would not think this is just a "difference of opinion." He had his own people slaughtered. He was a sadist who got exactly what he deserved for his rule of terror and fear.
2006-12-30 02:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by physandchemteach 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is that what you call it - 'a difference of opinion"?? And I suppose Stalin, Hitler and other dictators had differences of opinion???? He was tried by an Iraqi court, with an Iraqi judge, and Iraqi witnesses. The US caught him, but that is all.
2006-12-30 01:58:42 · answer #10 · answered by monkey 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋