If it had been your decision, would you have hanged Saddam?

Answer 1

No, I'd let him lose in the Streets of Baghdad and let his people to get their vengeance.
When/if Bin Laden is found, I'd release him into the streets of New York City.


*** Need some people remember that the US only caught him and imprisoned him? Iraqis tried him, convicted him and carried out his sentence. We just kept to the side.

Answer 2

No - religiously I am against the death penalty. And politically - Saddam Hussein was the handpicked puppet of our C.I.A. He was groomed to take over a then democratically elected Iraqi leader (who, at the time, wasn't sufficiently friendly to the U.S.).

We had no problems with Saddam's excesses regarding ethnic Kurds and Shia, until he decided to switch to Euros instead of Dollars, for his oil. Ooops....Our puppet was striking out on his own! Therefore he had to go at any cost.

The big shame is how many innocent Iraqis died because of our over-a-decade-long bully-sanction and our two invasions and now occupation.

And, when a country that claims to be the greatest democracy and moral leader in the world, has to show its muderous results on tv: Saddam's sons and Saddam himself; we've forfeited our claim.

I think we are akin to the Roman Empire in its declining years....Just watch it happen.

Answer 3

No as I don't believe in the death penalty. Plus hanging people like him just makes martyrs out of them

As George Orwell said in 1984, the best way to punish someone is to humiliate them. Make them apologise for all they did. Make them dependent on their captors. This is a far worse punishment than hanging and thats what I'd have done to Saddam.

Answer 4

No. I oppose the death penalty. As well, hanging Saddam Hussein made him a martyr; locked up for life in an Iraqi jail, he would be a nobody, quietly passing into senility.

Answer 5

No. He should have been made to wilt away in prison. Not these country clubs we call prisons but the type common in his region. Subject to regular humiliations of body searches, isolation from the general population, no entertainment, etc. Hanging him just made him a martyr.

Answer 6

Absolutely not - I oppose the death penalty. I fear the decision has already proved to be a bad one for the people of Iraq

Answer 7

You betcha. I haven't seen any mainstream media coverage of shrines being established or pilgrimages to his grave. And if there were any, you know there would be. He was, basically, a street thug who went out the same way he came in. We're not talking Gandhi here, after all.

Answer 8

No. In putting that filthy little dictator through that mock trial and then hanging him, all we've done is create another martyr in the eyes of far too many Muslims. We don't even grasp how seriously they take martyrdom and how seriously we damage our credibility over there by doing such stupid stuff!

Answer 9

long gone are the days whilst the civilisation of one state wud stay restrained to itself.. because of the fact the hollow up of commerce obstacles the international hass replace right into a smaller place..the guidelines of one u . s . has implications over its neighbouring international places..that explains the formation of RETTONWOODS instituitions specifically..IBRD(now usual as international economic enterprise), IMF(international economic fund), GATT(now its WTO) had encumbered`s efforts been curbed on the very outset..WTC wud have been there..& interest marketplace crash wudnt have hit INDIA staggering on the face..havingsaid that i do have self belief that US is making an attempt to exploit the least developed international places..

Answer 10

i think i'd have made him suffer a lot like throw him in a small cell probably or gas chamber and have him die in the worst possible way. lethal injection also sounds like a good idea