2007-01-10 17:29:56 · 31 answers · asked by meghana 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
If you don't know the answer to that question then you shouldn't be on the computer. He was killed for killing so many. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Guess he didn't read that or his mama never taught him that.
2007-01-10 17:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Neither Saddam Hussein nor Ali Hasan al-Majid (who commanded Iraqi forces in northern Iraq in that period) were charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity relating to the events at Halabja. [citation needed] However, the Iraqi prosecutors had "500 documented baskets of crimes during the Hussein regime" and Hussein was condemned based on just one case
2007-01-11 01:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are some slightly divergent answers and some assume it is obvious.
It is a perfectly acceptable punishment in that part of the world and likely expected. Although I believe the Geneva convention forbids executing or assasinating heads of state. This is skirted two ways
a) the US does not recognize him as a leader because he was not elected in the way the US chooses leaders and
b) It was done as a trial by his own people (people we control) so not an act by a foriegn govt in war. sweet.
2007-01-11 01:43:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are murderers killed? Should he have been allowed to live just because he was Saddam? His followers might be able to spring him from jail and then what?
2007-01-11 02:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by george 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because he invaded Kuwait.
He was promised some of the land along the border to be returned to Iraq control, but the US never followed thru on it. (look it up) He then invade Kuwait and gave the US reason to attack Iraq in the Gulf War. Which begs a question.....why was he not ousted then? why did they wait til 2001 onwards to get him? He has less to do with 9-11 then you and I did.
So moral of the story. If you team up with the US make sure its THEIR way or no way.
2007-01-11 01:52:02 · answer #5 · answered by lovelornlarry 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was evil incarnate. If the Iraqi people wanted to they could have continued with trials for decades for all of the evil things Saddam did. However, to get you best answer you need to ask the Iraqi court, not this forum. If the US had just wanted him dead they could have dropped a grenade in his hole and been done with it.
2007-01-11 01:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by k3s793 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was killed because the noose tightened around his neck as he fell. It broke his neck, and killed him instantly.
This was a lot more humane than what he did to the people of Iraq. Kids killed in front of their parents; athletes tortured for failing to win medals; whole villages massacred.
He kept hordes of women for his sexual pleasure, as well as for his sons.
He was an evil man.
I don't agree with how the Iraqi government did the execution (i.e., the taunts), but he was deserving of the death penalty.
2007-01-11 01:38:14 · answer #7 · answered by generalchris7 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Saddam, stay in hell and stop asking us Questions like why we killed you, you know exactly what you did, Damn you Saddam-------------Say Whats up to Lucifer.
2007-01-11 01:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Khateli. M. 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because he was a horrible man that killed a lot of other people. were have you been for the last decade?
2007-01-11 01:39:14 · answer #9 · answered by **wishin** 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because he was the musslim version of Adolf Hitler
2007-01-13 19:09:00 · answer #10 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋