Is it right?

Question

I felt a deep sorrow when I saw Sadam's execution on TV.Is it correct show such things through the TV.Any how we want to consider him as a human whatif he had done in the past.

But Sadam is not the one.

Answer 1

In the original Iraqi Constitution, execution should not take place on a holly day. Saddam Hussein changed that article in the constitution and it was amended to be able to execute anyone at any day in the year and he went along killing so many people publically... Yesterday was Arafa Day, and Today is Eid, a very VERY holly days in Islam, and Saddam was executed publically. KARMA!

PLUS... A video grab taken from al-Iraqiya television shows ousted Iraq president Saddam Hussein moments before being hanged in Baghdad. Saddam was hanged inside one of his former torture centres in the final act of a brutal 30-year tragedy that left the stage strewn with tens of thousands of corpses. And again I say KARMA!

I believe this is Karma! Saddam Hussein brought upon himself inevitable, bad, results. It is the cosmic principle that is taking its action. Each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation. Its his fate/destiny.

Congratulations! AT LAST... The world is free from Saddam Hussein!!!

Answer 2

Iraq is not like the UK or USA. Its a savage land, full of lawless ruthless people. The only way it can be governed successfully is by a strong ruthless leader. That is what Sadam was until we came along. The reason we went was for oil, no other reason, make no mistake about that. Sadam played the power game and eventually lost. Thats it.

Answer 3

I'm not going to mourn Saddam, what he did to the people of Iraq was horrific. I feel very uneasy however when I see a state execute someone. A while back I visited the holocaust museum in Jerusalem. One of the most upsetting things is seeing the sheer amount of paperwork behind those deaths, the rosters, the train manifests, the manuals for use by the civil servants who ran it. Just imagine the daily bureaucracy you see each day when you file your taxes was applied to ending human life. When we execute our criminals we lower human life to a function of the law, we justify death if the right legal boxes are ticked.

If we say execution is morally justified, then we hang human life on what our morals happen to be. If you kill your enemy for his wrongs, then your enemy won't hesitate to do the same to you. Whether it's Shia v Sunni, or government versus criminals, suddenly everyone's taking pot shots at each other.

Now Iraq starts its new life with a killing, whereas it could have started it with an act of mercy. The message to its citizens who aren't happy is clear - inflicting death is morally justified.

Answer 4

Did they actually show the execution itself?

I don't think that's right (particularly since he refused to wear the bag over his face). Regardless, I don't think 99% of the world population needs to see a man killed, regardless of how awful he was.

I only saw up to the point where he stood up and had the rope draped around his neck.

While I don't think the actual moment of death should be shown on the evening news here, I can understand why they would have it available somewhere. Saddam Hussein had a dangerous combination of power and cruelty. If they didn't tape and make available the footage of his actual moment of death, you know there would be people out there afraid he didn't actually die. If you look at it from that standpoint, the showing of the video makes sense.

Answer 5

I agree with Joe N.
I think Saddam was a horrible person who killed so many people for so long. But, killing him doesn`t bring them back and, who knows it might turn him into a martyr (something he sure isn`t).
So, what would have been better? Kill him and allow the people to look at him as being a martyr or keep him in jail and let people see that he is nothing, just a simple criminal.
I don`t agree with the death penalty, not now not ever...

Answer 6

You saw his execution on TV? Nobody else has. But some proof of his death will have to be shown eventually; too many people will not believe it otherwise.
Saddam was the cause of so many horrible deaths and so much suffering, that many people have exhausted their feelings of sadness in mourning the victims. They are just relieved that Saddam can't hurt anybody anymore.
If you can mourn his victims and still mourn for him, either you are morally confused or you are approaching sanctity.

Answer 7

Some of the whites are extremely clever people.
More than the Indian brahmins.!
They planned to get saddam killed after the danger of Russia's communist influence passed.
Saddam was not an Islamist. So they did not have the fear of the Islami lobby also.
The whites encouraged Saddam, to attack Kuwait and fixed Saudi Arabia against him.
Later they, (Very good experts in propoganda), tried to brain wash the whole world against Saddam, (One sided view),
Executed him, as if to rescue people of Iraq!
Let us see how they bring peace in iraq, by shredding it into pieces?
Same will happen to Musharaf very soon.!

Answer 8

Well it is a matter of personal opininion and I feel no sorrow. He has been just punished according to the law he created himself back in 1969. As you sow, so you reap.
I personally think he got a very easy death.

Answer 9

If somebody murdered your entire family, and still had his freedom for 20+ years. Would you not want to see it just so you could have closure? Granted he was human, and yes he was one of God's children, but he chose to stray from the path that God set for him. He was tempted by satan's call and he lived an evil live.

God has the final judgment.

Answer 10

Yes it's right! Saddam did lot of terrible things to million of people. He made million of people suffer under him. What do you expect? A nobel prize for Saddam?