What was your reaction to seeing the noose being put around Saddam's neck?

Question

What are your views?

Answer 1

Disgust. Given the circumstances under which it proceeded. It will lead to more bloodshed and violence and fuel hatred for Bush and the Western world.

The images of the hanging themselves were of course disturbing, but at least he remained Saddam until the end. Fierce & stubborn in the face of death and at 69 his life was over before the noose was put around his neck. This was nothing more than an attempt to quell the violence in Iraq.However most fear, myself included, that Saddam is now more dangerous in death than he was in life.

I also believe Bush should answer for his crimes and the lives he has cost with the invasion of Iraq. The death toll for coalition forces will, within a month or 2 surpass that of 9/11. The death toll for Iraqi's is something i wouldn't like to speculate The war in Iraq has left the country on the brink of Civil war and more of a playground for terrorists to ply their trade than it ever was under Saddam. Is it better now for the Iraq people under an new government? I'm not Iraqi so i wouldn't know. But i know that they cannot safely walk down the street without fearing bombs and other terror acts. Undoubtedly it must get better in the future, granted that it seems as thought it can't get much worse. But how much more bloodshed must Iraq face for peace. I hope Bush understands that it will take more than the execution of a 69yr old man to resolve the mess he has created. At the moment America would love to cut and run but i hope for the sake of Iraq and the Iraqi people they are there for the long term!

The only positive to be taken from the war is that America may think twice about trying to put their stamp on the middle east and other countries and America needs to understand that there are other cultures and values outside of the states and that democracy is not democracy when it must be imposed upon a country. We should fell ashamed with each day that passes in Iraq for what we have caused. My sympathy lies with Iraq and its people and also with the remaining family of Saddam, however ruthless he was, as a Christian to take life is immoral and it shows that Iraq is still very primitive in its development.

"The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world." Saddam Hussein 1937-2006

Answer 2

i think of that's the section that bothers maximum individuals. i exchange into bowled over to be certain that there are nonetheless 2 states interior the U. S. that supplies condemned inmates the alternative of putting. It basically seems fairly third international. Saddam exchange right into a ruthless dictator and deserved basically what he have been given - yet i do no longer desire to be certain it! Yuck. He killed hundreds of harmless people. His very own people at that. to no longer point out each and every of the folk he killed in Iran and Kuwait. He exchange into extra paranoid then Hitler and he mutually together with his secret police destroyed no longer in basic terms families yet entire villages of individuals. the secret police raped different halves in front of husbands, threw infants interior the air and shot them and tortured little ones - all in an attempt to get confessions of disloyalty to Saddam.

Answer 3

I agree with s0190331 above my answer. The USA, UK & Germany supplied Saddam with everything he needed to gas all those people. Saddam was a friend of the west not that long ago, just like Taliban

Answer 4

That I just didn't need to see it on the 6 o'clock news. I don't believe in capital punishment, I don't EVER want to see a real person being noosed. I don't care who it is, it makes me sick.

All the people revelling in watching the cellphone footage on YouTube really make me wonder... I thought we were more civilised nations.

Answer 5

I did not see it, neither want to see it.
It is barbaric. A middle age scene, at the dawn of the XXI century.

Calm down, you guys who think Saddam Hussein should have been tortured. You are just as barbaric as he was.
May god forgive you, if he exists...

Saddam Hussein should have be condemned to jail, and should have been tried for the chemical attacks on 170,000 Kurds with American chemical weapons, not only for reprisal against the 150-ish who attempted to kill him.

His trial was even more ridiculous than Stalin era trials were. A shame (one more) for America. But the truth is that American leaders just didn't want this trial to take place (a trial where they may have been asked to give their testimony).

Watch this photo: S. Hussein and D. Rumsfeld shaking hands. They used to be good friends, you know!
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

Also to say, to be fair, that the 10 years Americain blocus killed far more Iraqi civilians than Saddam Hussein ever did.

And please, don't show here how naive you are by answering "Another conspiration theory!". American support for Saddam Hussein to use chemical weapons during Iran-Iraq war is not a theory, but well documented facts everyone has heard of!

Answer 6

Honestly? Very distasteful (my own feelings). I understand why it needs to be broadcast, but I sort of regret watching it. I have no love or soft feeling for Saddam Hussein, but watching it being carried out really hit home. There's no reason for me to be watching a noose being placed around another human being's neck, in preparation for his execution.

Answer 7

Hypocrisy.

Capital Punishment is a crime against humanity.

Of course I'm just waiting for people from the "Land of the Free" to start shooting me down. Ironic in such a free land, where if you oppose the status quo, your views get immediately shot down. Howabout letting people state their opinions freely.........isn't that part of the US constitution.

So that's my opinion, learn to leave it alone. What you can scrutinise is the following claim of evidence
on the effectiveness of capital punishment.

Please see: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/JLpaper.pdf

His conclusion:
"Those who defend the deterrent value of the death penalty offer little systematic research to support their view. Instead, they rely on an intuitive feeling that capital punishment should be uniquely effective. When the available evidence doesn't support that conclusion, they argue that the evidence is imperfect. It is. But if there were any substantial net deterrent effect from capital punishment under modern U.S. conditions, the studies we
have surveyed should clearly reveal it. They do not.

As he says, the evidence is imperfect. But look at: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders
The US has a disporportionately high murder rate 12,658 compared with those of smaller populated western nations who abolished CP. France the 2nd highest with 1051.
Japan has CP, and comes in at 637. Why then does it work for Japan but not the US.
The general trend however shows much lower murders per capita for non-CP countries.

I'm not saying that's concrete proof but look at the numbers. The US population 300m, Vs France 60m. 5 x population but 12 x murder rate.

Answer 8

Grim fascination. Have we gone back to darker ages watching an execution? No punishment could make up for the crimes he committed, but I felt sad that humanity is still in a place where many people can rejoice in such an event.

Answer 9

I wished Saddam died in a different way. He should of been beheaded because that is the real muslim style. He would be screaming and such. But I don't want to see that on TV.

I was happy for the Iraqi's. It is about time for Iraq to step up and fight for their freedom. I think it's revenge. Many Iraqi's suffered from a lose family member and friends due to his genocide. I think the new government will be in better shape, etc.

Answer 10

vile as he was, it doesnt look nice, you know that one minute he's alive the next dead. It's not a particularly thrilling sight whoever they are. I would have prefered a more impersonal, anonymous few lines in the papers that he was punished by death and leave it at that. I really dont go for the voyeuristic video shots of anyone being killed, even if he did deserve it.