Do you think that Saddam should/shouldn't have been executed?

Question

I regret to say this but I think he shouldn't have been because I already knew that he was mentally unfit as a person. He also tried to attack Iran 2 decades ago and USA supplied him with bombs. Somehow he was being used. And by used I mean he was US's toy. The pieces just don't fit. I also think that Bush was really pissed at the Al-Quida attacks so he took it out on Sadam by executing him. Do you actually believe that he thought Iraq was planning to bomb USA with Al-quida's help?

I also think it's because of oil that Bush creates so much wars.

I want to hear your side (No Best Answer)

Answer 1

I don't agree with it but we have to remember this:

The decision to execute Sadaam Hussien was left up to the Iraqi's not us.

I think it would have been better for Iraq in the long-run if they had locked Sadaam up for life. There is no doubt we used him in the past and only when he stopped being useful to us did we take him out.

Answer 2

Yeah, Saddam should have been executed if for no other reason than the fact that he was a murdering psychopath that killed more of his own people on a daily basis than have died during this war. I used to have a pretty independent source that put the figure at around 125 innocent Iraqi's killed every day under Saddam. I can't find it now, but the following link isn't bad.

Saddam was a lightening rod for his Sunni supporters.

And if this whole war was about oil, think about it. How's that worked out for us? It's logically absurd to think that this war had anything to do with oil. Have gotten and will no get no 'oil benefits' from this war. This war is about terrorism and terrorists and eliminating a psychopath that would more than likely have developed WMD's and provided them to anyone promising to attack the United States. But lets say that that's not so. You're president. You going to make that bet or are you going to remove the possibility? You going to wait until you see the mushroom cloud over Manhattan from the Oval Office before you act? A little late then, isn't it?

Answer 3

Since President George W. Bush's allegations about former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ties to Al-Qaeda and ambitious weapons programs have been thoroughly discredited, there has remained an outstanding charge in need of resolution. During a campaign speech in September 2002, Bush cited a number of 'reasons' – in addition to alleged terrorist links and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – about why Saddam was so dangerous to the U.S., noting, in particular that, "After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." He was referring, of course, to an alleged plot by Iraqi intelligence to assassinate Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush, during his triumphal visit to Kuwait in April 1993, 25 months after U.S.-led forces chased Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War and three months after Bush Sr. surrendered the White House to Bill Clinton. Although he did not name his father, Bush Jr. also cited the assassination attempt in his September 2002 address at the United Nations General Assembly where he called on the UN Security Council to approve a tough resolution demanding that Saddam fully give up his (nonexistent) WMD weapons and programs. While the alleged plot was never cited officially as a cause for going to war, some pundits – including Maureen Dowd of the New York Times – have speculated that revenge or some Oedipal desire to show up his father may indeed have been one of the factors that drove him to Baghdad – as the sign of one demonstrator suggested in a big antiwar march just before the war: "I love my dad, too, but come on!" Personally speaking, I believe Saddam KNEW who the DOGS were here, and George W. Bush, therefore, sought revenge against this man. Period. The argument can EQUALLY be made that George W. Bush himself should be tried for his own war crimes. The difference between Saddam and Bush, is that Bush is able to hide behind a democracy that wouldn't dare suggest his motives were anything other than righteous. At least Saddam was an outright tyrant! He only hid in the end when the DOGS came in packs after him! Ultimately, it looked 'pretty' with the name that it was the Iraqi's who were the ones who made the final decision, but nevertheless, Bush played the cards that dealt the hand! My personal opinion...Bush is both a liar and a murderer, and by the same token (the scales of justice) that was given to Saddam, Bush should be hanged! With every fiber of my being, I despise George W. Bush!

Answer 4

I agree with everything except Bush wanting revenge for 911 , Iraq was planned by the Bush Administration since the second day they came in office . Anyway yes Saddam held alot of secrets the U.S. didn't want revealed , it's why they arrested 6 lawyers who defended him and its why they executed him . Gone now are the secrets of how the U.S. funded and supplied him with chemical weapons knowing full well he was going to kill the Kurds , gone are the secrets behind the first Iraq war , gone are the secrets behind the oil for food scandal , I could go on and on .

Answer 5

unless you sat down and talked to the man and was properly trained how in the world can you come up with the conclusion that he was mentally unfit as a person?

Iraq and Al-Qada's plans were to unleash terrorism on USA in form of suicide bombers, dirty bombs, etc. You are being naive if you think that they wouldn't have done something. What they aren't telling you is how many attacks have been stopped due to the efforts to watch and track terrorists.

Iraq was responsible for executing him, not the USA. He stood trial with an Iraqi judge in an Iraqi court room in Iraq.

Answer 6

Saddam should have been pardoned for his honesty of telling the truth about not having WMDs. (The original reason to attack)

On the other hand, Bush should be held accountable for ignoring the intel that suggested "He really doesn't have WMDs". The fact that he used to have them is irrelevant.

Too many excuses followed after that for invading that were not justifiable. Saddam did commit genocide, but so did our forefathers who founded the U.S.

Ask a Native American Indian.

http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/native-americans.html
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N. Korea actually had WMDs and still does and boasts about it. However, they don't have much oil there.
You do the math.

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Saddam was indeed executed by Iraq, but by a handpicked regime of the Bush Administration's choosing. - Conflict of Interest.

Answer 7

Iraq bombed the WTC in 1993, in retaliation for the first gulf war. The US embassies in Africa were bombed by Al Qaeda the same week that the weapons inspectors were kicked out of Iraq in 1998. Identical statements were released by the Iraqui government and Al Qaeda. ...... seems to me there was some collusion - he deserved to be executed

Answer 8

Saddam has worked and help CIA in the region for a while, he was much more concerned about Iran power in the region than anything else, and what he has done to its people, was what was necessary to remain in control... Now the US were thinking they were better than Saddam, but they can't even control Iraq now, but Saddam would have done it... Maybe roughly but surely...
Al Qaeda never even try to deal with Saddam, they got Afganistan in place...

Answer 9

well your 'rationale' isn't very rational....
sadamn was mental so he shouldn't die? you're mental for thinking that. he should have been dressed in a superman costume and tossed off a 3rd story building like he did to an old guard he thought had crossed him...or how about head first..if lucky into a woodchipper like he did to hundreds of people?

we armed sadamn because of what jimmy carter did to iran and the middle east....we had to play one evil against the other...same as world war 2 to arm russia against germany....get it moron? are you that stupid and blind by your leftists agenda?
Iraqis executed sadamn not the US....pull your head out putz.
and yes iraq had already financed al qaeda which of course has planned and executed attacks on US soil and abroad....
you're braindead.

Answer 10

Well hell yes he should have, so should Timothy Mcvay. I do hope that you know the decision to execute him was not ours, but of the people from the families he has killed. Could you load anymore of your leftist view into a question. Let me guess Bush lied people died now go burn a flag or have a rainbow march.

Answer 11

Take the political BS out of it and the bush, oil, terror crap out. Do you actually believe that Saddam Hussein had a right to breath the same air as you and I. If you do then Saddam was not the only mentally unfit person involved in this question.