Do so many feel sympathy for saddam...?

Question

because of their hatred for bush? Do you truly feel bad for the loss of a human life or are you in conflict over the obvious justice carried out and your feelings towards capital punishmen? where's the injustice? leaving saddam to rot in jail to be taken out and beaten everyday for the rest of his life, or sparring him the torture and getting it over with?

don't get me wrong, i agree with grimlocks, he did get off easy, i've just been on here and i've seen people mad that he got executed. i find it hard to believe that anyone feels any real sympathy. its one less headache for the world the way i see it.

Answer 1

when i saw all the pictures of his hanging i did feel sadness, but i think that was more guilt - sort of "what right do i have to watch this man die?" kinda thing. but i feel way more sympathy for the innocent people he slaughtered. in my opinion death was too good for him because he didnt fear death....but he's dead now so i suppose justice has prevailed.

Answer 2

To answer the initial question I'd like to ask another that I'd like to see a calm, rational, intelligent answer to: What was achieved?

Okay, you hung a bad guy for doing a lot of bad things and now a lot of his followers have made him into some kind of unholy martyr and sworn revenge. But what did you really achieve?

America is still invading Iraq and a lot of innocent Iraqi's are still being raped, tortured and murdered by American mercenaries. Bush has promised that America will be staying there to continue this behaviour.

To date, more than 3,000 of these pay for hire ignorant "soldiers" have been sent home in coffins due to their ignroance of the country they're invading. That's more than the 2,750 people that were killed by the cowards involved in 9/11. And apparently even Bush admits there will be many more!

So, all in all, what was really achieved by the kangaroo court that, for reasons unknown to civilized society, could not be conducted in the Hague by an impartial judging panel whereby a more fair system would have dealt justice properly?

Do I feel any sympathy for Saddam Hussein? I'm Christian and I have difficulty with this as I feel that NO human being has the right to interfere with God's plan for an individual's life. The death penalty IS wrong! It always has been and always will be! I'm sorry, yes, for the joke that he had to suffer through instead of an impartial system at the world court which would have been more fair. I'm sorry, yes, that he was hung without a fair and impartial trial.

I pray that God will have mercy on his soul (NONE of us truly know what happens after death or what God's judgement will be) and also that God will have mercy on those involved in hanging him is such a mocking manner.

I also pray that God will have mercy on this world for the continual strife that we allow our governments to inflict on people less fortunate than ourselves.

Perhaps the time is indeed ripe for the Second Coming. May Jesus, in His True Justice, have mercy on all of us.

Answer 3

I'll tell you why. Because I really believe in my heart the thing Bush has always said, and I believed it before I ever heard of george Bush or his dad. It's this: All life is sacred. Even a killer had a childhood, a mom, and has a soul that may yet be redeemed. When I saw that haggard, beaten-looking old man that Saddam had become in just a few short years before the tribunal, I looked into the face of another human being -- not a beast or a fiend or a despot.

This is not to sympathize with his actions. it's to recognize his common humanity. In being cruel to so many people (if you believe the bible, which i do) he was all that time really being even more cruel to himself, in effect sentencing himself to eternity in hell.

If that doesn't arouse some form of identification in you, then you and I would be hard put to have a fruitful discussion of this topic.

Peace

Answer 4

Saddam was a ruthless dictator – no doubt about it. But after talking to Iraqi friends (neither Sunni nor Shiite but Christian) who find themselves stranded in this country as a result of Bush and Blair’s disastrous intervention, and seeing the chaos and sectarian killing now going on in that unhappy country I have come to the conclusion that Saddam’s approach to maintaining order was just about the only way to do it. It was an approach that was flawed, cruel and self-serving, but it worked. It kept the religious factions from all-out conflict and, in the final analysis, saved many lives that are now being sacrificed on the altar of religious intolerance. Don’t judge Saddam on the basis of our Western morality. The Middle East is a different world. I speak as one who has worked there.

Answer 5

I agree with USArmor, Hussein brought his own destruction upon himself. He started believing his own hype and overreached in both Iran and Kuwait.

If he had kept his head down and his mouth shut he'd still be a very comfortable dictator to this day and one of Dubba-yew's best buddies.

In the long run, however, Hussein's regime was not much different from those of the neighboring despots the US props up in Southwest Asia, such as the Saudis, Mubarak, and of course, israel. People are arrested, tortured, and killed in those countries everyday but nothing is done because these are the "good guys".

Answer 6

I wish you guys could see how Saddam lived. The palaces surrounded by the slums. The lakes where he has taken precious irrigation water from surrounding farms. The Italian marble and gold covered fixtures in the palaces.

All of this had been built since 1991!! His people were starving, went without proper medical care and were DYING while he built palaces for his wives and his children.

Do I feel sorry for him? No. I wanted to slap the crap out of him for being stupid. All he had to do was play nice with the International community and he could still be in power and loving life.

Answer 7

It was a kind of punishment,as they said for what he has done.But what is the purpose of punishment; to beware others or to make more terrors.I am from Iran and I tolerated 8 years war with Iraq and with Saddam.I do not feel sympathy ,neither happy for him.I am just confused by this world, whats going on here?No one is responsible for every day terrors in our universities,in our country,in Africa for poor people....all are curious about past days and what for example he has done 10 yrs ago!

Answer 8

If you were so much against Saddam, why do you hide like a coward behind your computer instead of signing up for the military?

Only the blindly ignorant and willfully dishonest portray this as a black and white issue. Saddam knew where the bodies were buried, and not just the ones he killed; the ones the US is responsible for killing will go unavenged.

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Answer 9

It's the easy way out, but he did get off easy for what he did to all those people. Not sorry for him, I do not advocate capital punishment, loss of life through the hands of another human being, is a sore spot with me. Lifelong incarcerration without seeing daylight would've been a fitting punishment.

Answer 10

No sympathy, but a point!
Is it any different to the Arabs that the Bush/Cheney actions have resulted in the deaths of over 15,000 Arabs, US Citizens, and others?
As others have stated it is a sad reflection on people's beliefs.
where does any of the justification lie and who among us has the right to determine another's beliefs and another country's policies?