Please do not answer with answers like no... Just proper answers please... Personally I think he should have got life imprisonment as this is far worse than being hung.
2007-01-02 08:35:01 · 33 answers · asked by jackkenyon1991 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
1. By hanging Saddam, the Kurds don't get a trial for the crimes committed against them. They US screwed them again, just as they did in 1991. (The Kurds were told the US would support a rebellion; the US didn't and thousands of Kurds were killed.)
2. By hanging Saddam, he can't talk. He knows all the dirty secrets that the US doesn't want talked about, eg. the US sold Saddam WMDs (anthrax and mustard gas) so he could use them against Iranians. There was a lot of important information Saddam knew and it needed to be heard; he has been silenced to hide US complicity in Hussein's rise to power.
3. The Sunnis are already causing most of the violence in Iraq. By killing their figurehead, the US has made him a martyr and polarized the Sunnis even more. Expect MORE violence in the months to come, not less. Keeping him in prison for now would have been more effective.
Undoubtedly some morons will say, "You love Saddam" because I say he should not have been hung. His usefulness by keeping him alive is not a sign of admiration; if that's the case, then the US must have admired the Nazi war criminals they protected and hired after WW2.
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2007-01-02 08:45:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are only a few countries that still carry the capital punishment and Iraq is one of those.
No - he should not have been hanged. If he were given life in prison in a "fair" trial, that would have sufficient for the murders of 142 people. The trial was not "fair" as far as the international community is concerned and it did seemed more of a show. When a judge appeared to be agreeing with Sadam, the judge was removed. Fair - I don't think so.
Please note that he was tried for the 142 deaths rather than the thousands of Kurds that were killed by gas but I wonder who supplied the gas - mmmmmmmmmm. At the time he was gassing the Kurds in the late 80's, Rumsfelt was over in Iraq shaking his hand.
Although he was a dictator and he did rule with an iron fist, are the Iraquis better off today? Civil war!!
Life in prison is most appropriate.
2007-01-02 09:03:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dave 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
President Saddam Hussein has been (politically murdered)Illegally:
Removed from power. (against the UN charter)
The sovereign country of Iraq was preemtivley attacked (against the UN charter)
The reason for the attack (WMD) has been proved to be a lie by Bush & B-liar.
The President of a soverien country was tried in a Kangaroo Court by his arch enemies in a country that has no law and is under occupation by foriegn powers.
The people who condemed him and are currently ruling by USA permission, were all political exiles in the USA & UK.
These actions were condoned by and the occupying countries were complicite.
This whole debacle is a disgrace in the 21st century.
President Saddam Hussein actually personally murdered no one.
If this judgement is based on being President or Commander in Chief of the Military, a lot more so called Presidents and Prime Ministers should go to the gallows.
Very few people know the truth of the matter beyond the propaganda put out by the BBC and CNN as the source of their knowledge.
Once agian the UN is proved to be a useless and ineffective organisation and should be scrapped.
2007-01-03 01:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by ian d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe he should have had life imprisonment, and be surrounded by images of the crimes he had committed.
We have always been bloodthirsty in the U.S. Always. Look at Y!Answers, you will see some incredibly vicious ideas... "kill the illegals, kill the ethnics, kill the lawyers, kill the non-Christians"..... it's hard to believe, but it is true. Why do we allow Old West gunfighters and the Mafia to establish our morality?
Also, the death penalty makes no sense for people who want vengeance! A few hours of stark terror, then a needle or a yank on the neck, and it's all over...... You can believe most of us won't die that easily. The modern death process is ugly. My mother starved to death over 3 weeks in a hospice.
Someday, at some point, we must begin to hope that we can be something more than savages.
2007-01-02 12:08:55 · answer #4 · answered by KALEL 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saddam's EXECUTION WAS PRE-PLANNED BY THE AMERICAN'S. NO, he should NOT have been hung, THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE. He was sentenced to death for the killing of the 148 shia's in 1982, -THATS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BURG. If this was a real trial for crimes against humanity THEN WHY WASN'T HE TRIED IN THE HAGUE??? -Just as other dictators have been tried in the past. It was just to get him out of the way and to settle old gruge's, it was the Bush's of Texas against the Hussein's of Tikrit, because Saddam tried to kill George W. Bush's dad.
2007-01-02 08:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jack it must be the biggest fright of your life to step onto that trap door so how the hell can you say life imprisonment is far worse, with his wealth he would have lived a life of Reilly and lived to a ripe old age and who knows he might have got sprung//and Timothy you speak for yourself
2007-01-05 22:38:16 · answer #6 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in man killing anyone. That is God's job as far as I'm concerned. I am not a crazy Christian or anything like that, I just don't think it's right. I know he is responsible for many deaths, but that is on him. And, furthermore, isn't Bush just as responsible for innocent deaths? Could you imagine him getting hanged? Please, that will never happen. Why? I don't know. There is a lot of injustice in the world.
2007-01-02 08:40:20 · answer #7 · answered by Rairia 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. I think it is deplorable, disgusting and amounts to murder whatever he's done, who should have the right to kill him? With that attitude anyone could murder anyone as we've all done wrong to certain degrees. What if you murdered your neighbour because you thought he deserved it? Its just the authorities doing the same thing. What about the people who carried it out. As far as i'm concerned they are sick souls. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone etc. and also remember the poor Timothy Evans?
2007-01-02 09:51:07 · answer #8 · answered by druskininkai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know...
Capital punishment is morally wrong and giving Saddam life in prison would have been a more suitable punishment.
It's only give a bad exemple to irakian it's a murder...
yes it's a bad guy saddam but... kill somedy it's very stupid...
2007-01-03 09:22:34 · answer #9 · answered by greg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It pained me when I heard he had been hung. He butchered about a million Iraqis and was a very evil person. He was only killed to satisfy the blood lust of the US presidency. I think he should have been handed over to the international criminal court in the Hague and given due process. May God have mercy on his soul.
2007-01-02 09:27:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋