If it were upto you ,would you forgive Osama & Saddam?

Answer 1

Its a little too late for Saddam now. I would have forgiven him, or Osama or anybody who is truly remorseful over what they have done and are trying to change - the ol second chance at redemtion.

However, I don't think Osama sees anything wrong with what he is doing. That is the scary part. I'm sure that he doesn't even consider himself a criminal (even though he most likely is). He's proud of his achievements and would likely do them again. In fact its even possible that he has committed more major crimes since 911 and is planning more to come. Thats hard to forgive.

And good point Malaclypse - it IS up to us. Sometimes people forget that being a citizen in a democracy requires participation.

Answer 2

I'd worry more about US foreign policy if I were you.

Osama and other anti-US types do things because of US actions toward other nations. Only the deluded and those in denial think 9/11 was an unprovoked attack; it was payback for US acts elsewhere (eg. Iran, Palestine). Osama had no beef with the US until 1991 when Saddam invaded Kuwait; Osama was outraged that the Saudis allowed US forces on Saudi soil (sand?) and for letting them near Mecca. If the US had stayed out and based themselves somewhere else (eg. Turkey) things would have been very different.

And Saddam? Again, blame US foreign policy. Saddam was running away from Iraq in the late 1970s (like Ahmed Chalabi did) and only went back when the US offered military and political support. It was the US who sold Saddam chemical and biological weapons, not anyone else, and the US kept supplying him, HELPING Saddam murder hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Iranians throughout the 1980s. If you doubt that, check the US Congressional record when they approved Reagan's bill to sell weapons to him, and Donald Rumfeld's trips to Baghdad to sell them.

Osama and Saddam are small fry compared to those really to blame: the US government and US multinational corporations who they work for.


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Answer 3

That would be very self-destructive. Well, Saddam wouldn't be now, but Osama? I would love to have a clean shot at him. I would bury him with a pig too, just to send the message to the others.

Answer 4

They are only doing what they feel is right. If Afghans and Iraqis invaded America I would do everything I could to get them out. As for all the murdering of innocent people, they will have to answer to God for that. I am not the one they need to seek forgiveness from.

Answer 5

Humans can forgive others, we just aren't the final judges, God is. It is difficult to forgive these two men for all the evil things they have done and orders they forced others to do to innocence people. Eventually I will find forgiveness in my heart for them. But right now I can't. It's something I have to work on. But I have forgiven Hitler and Stalin and Jeff Dahmer and others. But God will the final Judge, no human does that deal.

Answer 6

It is right to forgive someone who is repentant. But forgiveness does not remove the concequences of sin. A man on death row can be forgiven and go to heaven, but this doesn't make his death sentence null and void.

Answer 7

Forgiveness is Gods domain. He will do any forgiving that needs to be done. Why is Bush, Hitler, Castro etc etc etc not on your list? Like Bin Laden and Hussein are the only ones to have killed.

Answer 8

Charity (never faileth) is above forgiving one another,
and because "charity thinketh no evil" (thinketh no law).

Love or Charity? which is to allegory say Law or Grace?
Love often fails: divorces, relationships, unpardonable sin
Charity never fails: especially not a holidness with sobriety test.
http://www.godshew.org/Charity.htm
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory.htm

Answer 9

I am so sorry - I do not hate them but to forgive atrocities of this nature is a religious /pop psychology ploy (in my humble opinion) to make the perpetrator feel "better". Violence is violence is violence and people who use it do not need my forgiveness.

Answer 10

to tell you the truth i would... i just lost my boyfriend 2 months ago to this war and it is what i believe bush's fault i think Osama was just an excuse to get Saddam.