If it was a war crime, why wasn't he tried under international law at the Hague? Isn't the loss of any human life grievious?
2007-01-01 09:42:11 · 11 answers · asked by phifar 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The loss of any life is grievous. People are too tolerant of murder.
2007-01-01 09:45:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jamie R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saddam Hussein committed the only unforgivable crime that there is in this world for leaders of countries that are of strategic interest to the U.S. --
Disobeying and / or misunderstanding orders from Washington.
This offense is always punishable by death. If Saddam had not misunderstood the meaning of direction from the State Department in 1990 - 1991 regarding Kuwait -- he never would have gotten in the dog house.
Certainly, his death has nothing to do with gassing Kurds or killing political rivals in Iraq. He was our friend when he did those things. We knew about them at the time, and he killed those people with weapons and technology we gave him. Rumsfeld's smiling phot ops with Saddam came after these "outrageous atrocities."
2007-01-01 17:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by Murphy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It Depends on who is talking. To his Iranian enemies, his crime is that he waged a war against them under strict guidance from the U.S. and ghe Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms. To the Kuwaits, it is because he invaded their country and annexed it to Iraq. To the U.S., it is mostly the crime of educating his own people and rebel against his pereceived little role in the Mid East play of politics. To the Kurds and Shiites of Iraq, his ultimate crime was that he ruthlessly resisted sectarian diviisions to the point of using the most horrified and brutal workings against his own people.
2007-01-01 19:01:39 · answer #3 · answered by seek_fulfill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does it matter that we were once friends with this leader? Who cares about that! All through history we are allies, then enemies with different countries...it's a part of politics!
What matters is he was EVIL! He killed many of his own people for no reason...many simply because they were respectively in competition of his own position! Not only did he kill them, but their entire families and friends! He deserves the sentence he got!
He allowed his sons to rape young girls and kill the families of those young girls who disagreed!
He killed entire cities with gas....
Come on???
Who cares which crime he was tried for and where...he did many crimes...many punishable by death!
I think it was a smart move allowing his own country to try him for his crimes. This keeps the US from taking full responsiblity for his sentence. This man was responsible for his own actions...and I'm glad we weren't left holding the bag!
He was tried, found guilty, sentenced to death by hanging, and it was all carried out by his own country so get over it! It was just!
2007-01-01 18:43:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crimes against Humanity he commited against Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war.
2007-01-01 17:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The execution of 140 odd assasins that attempted to murder him in 1982. They happened to be the supporters of Maliki, the current satrap of Iraq.
2007-01-01 17:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was responsible for the slaughter of thousands of his own people. He was a monster and death was right and proper.
2007-01-01 17:47:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mass murder including children, I hope he rots in hell.
2007-01-01 17:49:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the survivors of the people he butchered in his torture chambers.
2007-01-01 17:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the mass murders that he ordered
2007-01-01 17:45:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋