I understand that he committed horrible crimes. A frightening, evil man. Why was I shaken by the news of his hanging? A voice inside of me simply said "this isn't right". I have never defended him in any way. Is it a lingering of the Christmas spirit? Am I simply experiencing end of the year melancholy?
2006-12-29 18:30:54 · 27 answers · asked by Gina N 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Well first of all he deserved to die for what he had done. The only thing is its not going to solve anything. It is kind of disturbing to know that a person that u have been watching on t.v/in person is dead.
2006-12-29 18:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that your heart is definately in the right place - it's good to love and feel for everyone. That is part of the christmas spirit - a desire for love and peace everywhere and for everyone. I'm glad that even though a lot of people are really excited and vengeful that the death does reach someone's heart.
At the same time, I do think that it was right for him to die. He did kill a lot of people, and turtured a lot more, and ruined all the families of his victims. It did need an end, and if anyone deserved the death penalty it was he. I'm not sure exactly how many were killed in 9-11, but how many he killed and tortured probably comes close.
I think that it is very right that people only give the death penalty when it's needed, and are sad that it was nessesary rather then either people who think people should get away with everything, or people who heartlessly and vengefully kill. So I think you have a soft heart, and at the same time understand that he did commit horrible crimes. :)
2006-12-29 18:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by thecrazyperson 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would say your inside voice had nothing at all to do with Christmas spirit or year-end melancholy. I feel the same way. There is certainly nothing I could or would say in Saddam's defence. It's just that with no say-so. and in fact against my will, *I* , as an American citizen, was somehow made a participant in a killing that was premeditated. Not a good feeling under any circumstance.
2006-12-29 19:07:00 · answer #3 · answered by and_y_knot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pinochet, Suharto, Mobutu, Amin, The Shah, Marcos, Pol Pot - trusted employees, business partners or useful pawns. Saddam...not so trustworthy after a while. Kissinger still walks free, gets Nobel Peace Prize, remains regarded as an elder statesman.
No doubt Saddam was evil. Most heads of state are. He was just on the losing end of a battle. The lesson of Nuremberg is that only victors decide what is a war crime, and no one ever finds their own power objectionable.
I shed no tears for Saddam, but my concern is for innocent Iraqis and US troops who will die because it's amateur night at the White House.
2006-12-29 18:48:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You should feel sad if there is any goodness in you!
No one should be happy over the death of another human being!Yes! He committed crimes towards humanity, destroyed families, killed thousands of innocent people, and deserved the punishment he received, nonetheless, in my book, all these people who are now happy over his death, throwing parties etc. are no less evil than he was!
The only thing that we Americans should be glad over is the fact the Saddam was prosecuted, and his death was carried out in his own country, because if he was prosecuted in our country, he would be in death row for the rest of his life, at the expenses of us the tax payers, with the chance of getting out by declaring insanity, but not before getting a college degree while incarcerated.
2006-12-29 19:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by amccoy1962 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly pondering Bin weighted down remains at great and Bush seems to have completely forgotten he exchange into ever after him, and that the united kingdom and US invaded Iraq and not applying a competent reason, and that i do no longer subscribe with the 'eye for a watch' thought with out pondering what proportion harmless lives Bush and Blair have led to their conflict, the full thought of people taking yet another human's existence is someway morally uncomfortable in 2006
2016-12-31 06:57:03 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy do I feel you! I actually feel sad about his death, I don't think that nobody deserves to be killed like that. I know that Saddam was an evil person but I think that he should have serve time for the rest of his life or lethal injection. But hanging! What a horrible way to die. I feel for his sons and daughters, they must be devastaded right now.
2006-12-29 20:12:16 · answer #7 · answered by ******* 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're sad because a human being died, which makes you a better person than Saddam Hussein. It's called empathy and you should feel proud of yourself.
What I find really sad is all the people here that are asking where they can download the video of him being executed, I think those people are sick. The fact is no matter how evil he was he was still a human being and it's wrong to rejoice in his death.
2006-12-29 18:39:03 · answer #8 · answered by . 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you have the same niggling feeling that I have about the whole thing. I know he was a monster, and I have family that felt the wrath of him nd his fellow soldiers. But at the same time, he was only found guilty of one set of war crimes. When was he supposed to be found liable for those crimes?
When are the victims of those crimes going to see any justice at all?
And just when we get to think we might to get a massive pull out of our troops out of that hell hole that we don't belong in to begin with, then now they are talking about the uprising that will come on the heels of Husseins' death. Maybe we should have let him stand trial for all the crimes he committed THEN let him have his justice.
There are so many wounded, disabled, blind and maimed children out there because of him, that one guilty verdict just doesn't seem enough to me, somehow...
2006-12-29 18:43:47 · answer #9 · answered by luvmelodio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I felt the same way, gut feeling that it wasn't right despite everything. What some people need to realize is this, were(North American) raised in a certain manor and a certain way of life. Iraqi's are also from a different way of life. Perhaps they needed a strong dictator like him as dictatorship is their way of living. Would you put a polar bear in the desert because you like a warm climate? No just like Bush shouldn't be where he doesn't belong either.
2006-12-29 18:35:22 · answer #10 · answered by summer_p1b1x4 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feel the same way.
So many international conventions were violated for this to happen. eg. he was supposed to have a neutral judge on neutral soil.
Also Islamic law says no person oner the age of 60 should be executed. He was 69.
He had no right of appeal.
Not to mention all the rumours of ulterior motives that Bush apparently had.
I honestly feel shocked that our western civilised countries have done this.
2006-12-29 18:40:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋