why was saddams executed so soon?

Question

Why did we allow him to be executed so soon. There are so many things left unanswered. I think its because the US didnt want him to leak while on trial? What is up with that? First we help him during the Kennedy years and them we kill him. Which im totally for but that just goes to show how the administration works hu?

Answer 1

He was turned over to the Iraqis. That is what they chose to do with him and how soon.

Answer 2

My pointie-headed conspiracy theory is that the Shiites (not puttin'em down, here, they WERE the victims for decades) that they knew of something more precious to Saddam than revenge, some family member or something, and threatened to do horrible things to that person (employing a very large monkey on viagra and smack) if he didn't release a statement insisting on calm among the Iraqi's generally but especially among the Sunni's. So he did.

I had hoped he could've stood trial for his other crimes. I have 3 Kurdish acquaintances who said they have verifiable evidence that Saddam's combined attacks on the Kurd's resulted in more than 2 million deaths.

Time and again during the cold war, our leaders felt it imperative (and, who knows, maybe it was imperative) to overthrow regimes too cozy with the Soviet's. Well, just about as often, they turned out worse than what they replaced. Two million Kurds.

Speaking as someone who will probably be voting Dem a lot more often, let's afford credit where credit is due. I think that, as the smoke clears more people will remember that by the 2000 elections, gas had hit $1.50/gal, dbl from a year earlier, we'd all prepared for Y2K by 'stocking up'. But then, nothing happened on 1/1/00, so all that 'stocking up' became over-production which led to layoffs. All on top of the '99 tech crash, a story in itself - corporate chiefs practically begging people to realize their stock is worth less?

There are rules against considering a person who can't speak intelligibly a "great president," still, if I could have been president since 2000, I'd rather have been a janitor. Anyone on this site who believes they could've come out well-liked is more optimistic than realistic.

But, good golly, if he just hadn't diverted us to that hydrogen crud. Oh well.

Answer 3

Unlike in the USA, if you are convicted of a criminal offense and are sentenced to death, the death sentence is carried out rather quickly. If Saddam were to be given the death sentence here, he would appeal ... then appeal again, then appeal again ... all the while waiting on Death Row for years while he would wrap the courts up in red tape. Then, with the help of the ACLU and other whiny left-wing organizations that prefer those who would hinder the U.S. rather than help, somehow the death sentence would be commuted by an acitivist judge and Hussein would disappear somewhere in exile where he would live out the rest of his days in solitude.

As for so soon ... he didn't die soon enough!

Remember this as well ... if he was "implanted" during the Kennedy years like you state, then any secrets released would gut the Democrat Party because of the implications between a vicious dictator and the supposed "equal rights and fairness for all" party (that will be discussed in another question if asked in one of these forums).

Answer 4

There are still many Iraqi's that feared Saddam could somehow get free or be released and could come back and hunt them down and execute them. Hanging him put that to rest.
Now maybe there will be more cooperation from the locals, and less intimidation by insurgents. If you listen to the Cell phone tape it is very clear the the Shiite's were responsible. Saddam was a Sunni. Saddam killed millions of Shiites, Kurds, all Iraqi's...
Kind of like if Bush had killed Millions of Catholics and Methodists and dumped them in mass graves, but the Baptists all ran the country and had all the oil money. That is what it was like over there, if they didn't agree with him politically or religiously, Saddam had them executed. The Laws there are built more on Religion, just like ours are fundementally based on GOD.. in GOD We Trust etc...

Answer 5

So soon? I think the million people killed, in the 80's between him gassing his own people in 82, and the Iraq, Iran war he started that lasted 8 years, and the people he murdered up to his recent death, would say that it came way to late. However Iraq made their own constitution, and laws.. Unlike the United States, there are allot of countries that have a short wait on death row.
Also we helped Iraq during the Iraq - Iran war, also may I remind you that at the time Iran was kidnapping and murdering U.S. citizens in the middle east.. I don't really have the time to fully get into that so please before you make statements like this, take 20 min. and research the topic, also one more thing the U.S. had nothing to do with the execution, we actually tried to delay it.. once again try to put some effort to research..

Answer 6

Saddam Hussein was tried and convictde under Iraqi law. There were no Americans in the courtroom ever. Iraqi law says that anyone sentenced to death must be executed within thirty days. Because he was given a death sentence the case went right to an appeals court and that court upheld the decision so he had to be executed within 30 days. Saddam was convicted for the murdering of 148 people back in the '90s. He was only tried for this atrocity none others. The US had nothing to do with the trial so nothing could be leaked. Iraqis tried, condemned, and executed him....Not Americans.

Answer 7

you're making many surprising factors, yet they're all coming from a Western attitude. In Saddam's area of the international and in his lifestyle, being accomplished is a shame and a shame, and from his attitude is the worst that would desire to take place to him. His dying will provide a feeling of finality to the torture and soreness he inflicted on the Iraqi people for certainly one of those super variety of years, so i think of from a psychological attitude Saddam's execution would be therapeutic for the country. keep in mind that that area of the international sees issues a lot in yet in any different case than maximum Western people, so we'd desire to positioned ourselves of their place, even even with the shown fact that throughout specific circumstances that is confusing.

Answer 8

We had no say in when Saddam was executed, it was up to the Iraqis. We helped Saddam before we knew about all the horrible things he did. What would he leak? We didn't kill him, Iraqis did.

Answer 9

I think with the country sliding to civil war I think the ruling Shites wanted him dead as quickly as possible to prevent a Sunni victory and them freeing Saddam and putting him back in power. I believe they felt they had to kill him quickly while they still could.

Answer 10

i'LL TELL U THE ANSWER.SADDAM was executed soon because he had too many penalties under him.So many, that, by iraqi law, such kinda person would face too many troubles-

saddam was facing a penalty for over thousands of death,which means he's supposed to be hanged for thousands of such cases, which implies a sentence of hanging thousand times.

Normaly, as per the law, a person is allowed to file a suit for granting a pardon only if he shows a letter of confession and hands it to the president.

But,look at saddam, he's not only envied by the president himself but also he's not confessing it with his own mouth.
Even the mafia goombaas try escaping sentences by confessing crimes, but saddam was a foolish man, he didn't use his tactics enuff to escape from this.

So, finally by his own hands, that saddam called for his death.

Answer 11

Saddam created a law in Iraq that said the dealth penalty must be carried out within 30 days. Hosed by his own law.