2007-01-23 00:46:53 · 12 answers · asked by Awad M 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Whats fair about war?
He was executed because he lost a war and paid the price - It may or may not have been fair, but it is the winners of a war who write the history - If Saddam had won and Bush had lost, Bush would have suffered the same fate... would that be fair?
I think so ;)
2007-01-23 00:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hey chachi the US did not execute Saddam, the Iraqis did and no one is better at killing Iraqis than Iraqis. The guys who have been executed were horrible monsters for sure and were given a trial in a country that is not used to a trial system. Saddam did not use trials when he killed the hundreds of thousands of people so I guess he got what he gave and that goes in many cultures. The US actually did not approve of the execution and wanted to delay it but becaue that country is so eaten up by bizarre religious practices they had to off him on a certain day and the Iraqis did it. That is the most hopeless place on earth and I can only imagine that to be a thinking intelligent person must be the most difficult thing to attain there. Maybe that is why so many educated and talented Iraqis (and Iranians) get the hell out of there. To say that the US did it is indicative the lack of information and understanding available in that country. People just chant slogans and get into a frenzy, shoot guns in the air and then go kill women and kids to prove some point unknown to the rest of humanity.
2007-01-23 09:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by Tom W 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Any way you look at it, it wasn't fair. If you are pro-capital punishment and want to go 'an eye for an eye', you'd have to kill Saddam 180,000 times to make up for the people who died under his regime. On the other hand, maybe he didn't personally kill anyone, in which case we should have executed whoever pulled the trigger.
However, most 1st world nations have abolished the death penalty, and almost all of them have universally condemned the practice of the death penalty in all cases, including Saddam.
I don't think that killing a murderer makes up for the murder. If Saddam killed my wife, I don't think it would matter to me how many times you killed him. He's not equal to my wife. How is his death fair? It's not the same.
A fair finish? Why not give Saddam a weapon and let him fight it out with his accusers?ãHis hands were tied, a rope was put around his neck and he was killed. What's fair?
Pro-Capital Punishment Argument: Capital punishment is not about being fair or just. It's about removing a threat to the survival of the species. There's someone who represents a threat to the lives, safety and health of others, and that threat should be permanently and humanely removed.
Anti-Capital Punishment Argument: It's not right or moral to reduce the justice system to the level of the murderer: to kill in cold blood because it's convenient. Capital punishment represents the extreme of cruel and unusual punishment in that it deprives the target of life. It's a debasement, a devaluing of life, but also of ourselves and we should be above that.
2007-01-23 08:57:18 · answer #3 · answered by crispy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He deserved it, but the way people went about it was completely wrong, people are sick, really.
The guy is dead, end of story, why the hell did they have to air it? and what the hell is with the t-shirts? the games?
really people grow up dont be so juvenile about something so serious. He is dead, he died, he was hung. why do you need to see it? ridicule it? constantly bring it up?
i pray for a day where everyone grows a proper sense of responsibility and justice, and where every1 has a decent level of intelligence.
2007-01-23 10:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by Laminate C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wasn't fair! the whole execution was not going by the laws! basically, rather than an execution, it was a murder! he might be a horrible person but the actions against him was illegal! i believe the hanging could've been replaced by a simpler and legal punishment.
2007-01-23 08:55:41 · answer #5 · answered by simon k 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No because the Americans are invaders .They don't have the right to execute Saddam.It is not the decision of Iraqi people .
2007-01-23 09:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by chachi 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes I think it's fair he was executed he killed alot of people for nothing but the way those people are over there I would have let him have his power back. I don't care what people say most of them hate us anyway.
2007-01-23 08:51:20 · answer #7 · answered by fluttergirl2004 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes! As a Christian I believe in an eye for an eye. After all the killings he did, the destruction he caused...he deserved what he got. It's not a happy day having to kill someone but it needs to be done in this case (and Osama)
2007-01-23 08:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by heartache 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes - it was fair that he was executed. He killed hundreds of thousands of people. He tortured or had tortured hundreds of thousands more. To lose his life wasn't enough, but it was the most that they could do.
2007-01-23 08:54:01 · answer #9 · answered by lifesajoy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
U BETTER BELIEVE IT WAS FAIR!!! EVEN THE BIBLE IS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!! (aN EYE 4 AN EYE, AN A TOOTH 4 A TOOTH) HE DESERVED 2 DIE....HE REALLY DESERVED 2 B TORTURED 2!!! HE DID IT TO SO MANY OTHERS!!!
2007-01-23 09:21:40 · answer #10 · answered by ILovemyhubby!!!! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋