Why has the president not mentioned anything about Saddams hanging and they way it was handlled.. in all fairness, it could have been handled better.. Seems to me he is avoiding the conflict.
2007-01-31 04:52:48 · 7 answers · asked by ♥ĴỤiiČ¥♥ 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Apparently you cant hear the news media with your head down there in the sand like that. President Bush and some of his spokesfolks have mentioned many times their displeasure at how the execution was handled. The thing is, it was the Iraqi government which handled the whole thing. WHY are you blaming President Bush for it?
At any rate, the execution was more merciful than most of the thousands and thousands that Saddam presided over, unless you think being mocked is worse than being buried alive, fed alive feet first into a chipper, being boiled alive in acid, etc.
You should be more concerned about the victims than you are about the perpetrators.
2007-01-31 05:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe it could have been done better, but it could have been done worse. Italy's Mussolini was hung upside down from a lamp post in 1945 by his enraged countrymen. Do we consider the Italians an uncivilized people? Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife were executed by firing squad only days after being overthrown. The fate of murderous dictators is often like this.
Saddam had a lengthy trial and was executed in a fairly professional manner. At least his body wasn't hung by the feet in a public place like Mussolini's.
I'm not sure Saddam deserved the decent execution accorded to a common murderer, but I'm glad the Iraqi government was able to exercise this much restraint.
2007-01-31 13:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree. Although Bush did reserve a single sentence for how he felt about the death of Saddam...what he didn't elude to is the fact that it was AMERICAN forces that had control of Saddam until 5 minutes before his death and that there were AMERICANS present for the death. That is the problem that I have with how Saddam died...If it truly was Iraqis dishing out the punishment, then Americans should never have been present, nor had Saddam in their control after the trial had begun.
2007-01-31 14:05:59 · answer #3 · answered by hera 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He did.
President Bush ... criticized the handling of Saddam Hussein's execution, saying it looked like "kind of a revenge killing" that had eroded the American public's faith in the Iraqi government.
Bush said the hanging showed that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government "still has some maturation to do" ...
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2007-01-31 13:00:33 · answer #4 · answered by JB 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What conflict? It was done by the Iraqi people. Should he be tried in the US he would have so many appeals he would die in prison. It was not our law that put him to death, it was Iraqi law. Don't forget, the executioners may have been relatives of some of the people he used poison gas on or had executed.
2007-01-31 13:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
He did say something to the effect that it was unprofessional.
2007-01-31 12:55:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
he said he wasn't pleased the way they went abuut it
2007-01-31 13:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by parkituse j 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋