Don't u think Saddum got the right to an international court.. i mean he is a prison of war.. so he got the right for this and he is a prisoner of war and if they want to executed him it should but by shut gun not hanging....... what do u think peope?
2007-01-03 18:01:31 · 15 answers · asked by ra7eel_2005 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I think you should learn how to spell and type! And he got what the court decided, not his choice. He wanted the shotgun as he thought hanging was "beneath him". The people he murdered had no choice!
2007-01-03 18:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Joe S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is very wrong.
Iraq is supposed to have a rebirth and although blood letting continues, is being democratised, "thanks" to the devastating efforts of America.
One of the cornerstones of democracy is human rights, even for criminals. Yet through the so-called court proceedings, Saddam was adjudged guilty and his hasty execution made a world spectacle. What about his rights which America so loudly proclaims that everyone, yes everyone, should be entitled to?
Even if Saddam was guilty of all that said of him, he should not have been tried in Iraq in the first place and certainly not through the way the court was consituted or the procedures adopted. It was all a sham and a farce to provide television footage for the Shiites and the home audience in America. The whole proceedings from beginning to end did not show the new (American) brand of justice under the much touted new "rule of law" in any positive light at all.
For the charge of crimes against humanity, is it not the task of the International Court of Justice in The Hague to try and judge? Why the difference here and how is Saddam's crime so different from the others charged with the same crime but had their fates decided by the ICJ?
May be the real truth is that it was done to appease the Shiites and Saddam's hanging show was also done to pander to the Shiites and families of the soldiers who went to their deaths wrongly thinking that they had fought a just war to "defend America."
However, in Saddam, we really saw an extremely brave man who faced his death in total calmness. This I think not even some of the bravest soldiers could do. It also makes me wonder how Bush and Blair would behave when the noose is slipped around their necks when. If nothing else, the way Saddam met his end has made the Sunnis very proud, hence their vow to avenge his death.
2007-01-03 18:48:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no to executions, what has the world come to, now I'm sitting watching tv and all of a sudden this footage of the execution comes on without warning, who's looking after the children? I'm so sure many children would have seen this horrible thing, no wonder people are de-sensitised to brutality. I believe that Saddam was an evil person but no one has the right to play God.
2007-01-03 18:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by pansi1951 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is very tacky to show the tape, however his military men drug American soldiers through the streets of Baghdad and they were proud that they had killed and humiliated the bodies!
Saddam was unrepentant and brazen up till the very last. He was a cruel man and died a cruel death. Justice was served.
I think it's potentially damaging to a society as a whole to view such ugly scenes and begin to grow insensitive to it. The Iraqi people are just that, desensitized to horrific violence and they live and breathe it everyday. Peace truly is a foreign concept to them.
That's the biggest reason that every peace treaty ever made with them has fallen through. They don't know how to live in peace.
I think they are afraid to try it because then they would be vulnerable to attack. Endless cycle that's been going on for thousands of years!
2007-01-03 18:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by Knuckledragger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the court's decision. Whether or not we agree with it is kind of null and void since it is already done. I personally think that anyway you execute someone on international television it is probably in poor taste (whether being shot, electricuted, hung, or gassed out)... but then there would be people saying that he wasn't executed at all if they didn't see it themselves. It's pretty much a loose-loose situation.
2007-01-03 18:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by Ammie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He deserved much more than a relatively painless hanging. His execution certainly should be shown around the world to give people hope of overthrowing their opressors, to show that justice will come to evil people, and we will not tolerate or try to coexist with that kind of totalitarianism. may he burn in hell
please proofread your question before you post so you have more of a semblence of coherency, because you're really on the edge there
2007-01-03 18:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by qsleonard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was just a political game by Bush and Blair, otherwise why they did not allow completing the process.
Their were many secrets of America and Britain behind this inhuman act.
2007-01-03 18:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by Judge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad that the execution video made it out.
There were a lot of Muslims that still expected him to return to power. Doesn't seem so likely now :)
2007-01-03 18:14:20 · answer #8 · answered by chemicalimbalance000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all .. i dont understand why ur talking in the present tense..
i think his death will always remain a controversial issue...I dont haf a personal opinion on the way he was killed...but i guess he shud haf gone to the hague . but it would haf taken a long time to get him convicted.... and the people wanted justice right away.
2007-01-03 18:12:15 · answer #9 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agreed!
2007-01-03 18:04:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋