2006-12-30 14:42:43 · 27 answers · asked by AVATARD 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ok, julia: then why the hell aren't we invading china?
2006-12-30 14:51:21 · update #1
So according to some of the responses here it was solely for revenge that he was killed.
If their justification was that he was responsible for killing thousands then bush and blair must follow him to the gallows.
2006-12-30 14:47:11 · answer #1 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Some say he murdered up to 2 million people. Perhaps he did, but many of the people the United States works with today have done the same. History is written by the victors, not the losers. War has been waged since the dawn of time, billions of people have died for a cause.
The Turks have been oppressing the same people (Kurds) as Saddam did since before Saddam even knew what a Kurd was, or was even born for that matter. So what's the difference between Saddam and the Turkish government? The Turks are good at kissing ***.
As for your question, not one, unless revenge is a reason.
2006-12-30 22:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by warlord46750 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Unless we are a part of the families that lost loved ones to this man's torturous regime then, I don't think we have the right to say if has solved anything. To those people over there that were tortured, murdered, and living in fear because of this person, they may be able to sleep in peace when they go to bed at night, they may be able to go on with their lives now knowing that this man has been brought to justice. I'm not saying it's right or wrong for what was done, and I couldn't have put the rope around his neck and dropped him down but, I am not directly affected by what he did to all of those people either.
2006-12-30 22:56:38 · answer #3 · answered by Tall Order 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But, we all saw proof that Saddam certainly wasn't a saint. That's putting it mildly. He is responsible for some of the worst violence against his own people. Saddam was a living, breathing devil. His time on earth was a complete and total waste. Now all that needs to happen is, Osama Bin Ladin gets caught FINALLY!
2006-12-30 22:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by Crazy Horse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing.... the only thing his death did was to perpetuate the kind of violence he added to the world. Killing him only served to bring the people that did it down to his level, true transendence would have been accomplished if people had overcome violence instead of perpetuating it.
PS it seems to me that death as punishment defeats the purpose, when you are dead you are beyond all punishment. (unless you believe in God which still according to believers saddam could be in heaven if he let god into his heart) A better punishment would have been something that changed his life forever... to the benefit and good of all. Like banishing him to a place where he could only hurt himself and not others since cruelty feeds on suffering, depriving him of those to torture would have been better punishment than taking his life.
2006-12-30 22:52:14 · answer #5 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think that Hussein's punishment had "solving world problems" as a goal?
Solving societal or world problems was never a goal of bringing Hussein to justice.
The man committed crimes, and in his country, those crimes have a certain punishment -- that punishment being death.
Don't try to read any more into it than that.
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2006-12-30 22:49:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the end of a tyrant is justice to those who were tortured or have been left bereaved .the message is clear and justified....the fabric of justice is satisfied and the impact is real .The woes of the world are not solved over night or by letting the criminals go because some are slow to realize. Everystep for a just society counts towards the paradigms of society as we judge them
2006-12-30 22:51:40 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
His death wil achieve absolutely nothing........watch as this basket case nation decends into a new hell and takes the surrounding nations with it.
Palestine will rise up and Iran will get nukes.
I am glad I dont live in Israel............ they are about to get a new escalation of hurt , particulaly after their debacle against the Hezbollah which showed them to be highly touchable.
2006-12-30 22:53:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Emotional closure and therapeutic psychic recovery for the people of Iraq after enduring 3 decades of systematic torture and tyranny.
2006-12-30 22:49:52 · answer #9 · answered by Ashley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saddam was not hanged in order to solve societal or world problems; he was hanged because he was a mass murderer.
Justice has been served.
2006-12-30 22:45:20 · answer #10 · answered by David S 5 · 9⤊ 2⤋
The Bathists can no longer think that he could return to power.
The Kurds can fell much safer knowing that he can't return to power.
Other dictators can see that there could be consequences.
2006-12-30 22:49:28 · answer #11 · answered by Alex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋