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Mixed feelings in Iraq over Saddam death sentence
By Ziad Haris and Marwa al-A'sar Dec 27, 2006, 13:48 GMT
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A political prisioner, unable to do anything, should not be hanged. I think that Mr Saddam Hussain - Former President of Iraq did not get fair opportunity to get justice.
Hope, no one in the world be hanged. One should not forget that Saddam was a political leader and a political leader always have many enemies and supporters too.
But to hang someone is a crime against humanity.
Hope, the world will stop the execution of Saddam.
Jayesh Shah / Surat / India
I agree - There is no way Saddam should be hanged. He should be fed into one of those chipper shredder things while on pain amplifying medication and repeatedly healed so he can experience his execution over and over. People who do mean things should have mean things happen to them so other people won't think it's a good idea to be mean.
charismatic megalomaniacs of this nature with an undisputable track record must be put down as soon as possible. the financial cost is mild compared to the social unrest caused by the ill informed and outright stupid who would continue to support and form a cult of personality around this monster. he has no redeeming qualities and can only continue to cause unrest by his mere existance. lets give a few thousand families a little closure. oh yes and the families of our fallen capturing this garbage.
Saddam's should be executed by a firing squad by representitives of all religious faiths in the country. In this manner not one religious faith will be held responsible for his death.
I don't know if I back the death penalty. However if there was ever a time to do it it would be now. Saddam is not sentenced because he was a dictator and had enemies as all dictators do. He is sentenced because he ordered the mass killings of his own people on more then one occasion. The International Community already knew the facts surrounding these cases before he even went to trial. Saddam signed his own death warrant with his actions of killing citizens and defying the UN's orders which lead to his eventual capture.
Hey, Jayesh Shah...thats a really good point.
Gosh, if Saddam could just get some counseling and good hug I'm sure he would come around become a productive member of society.
Maybe he could open up a tea and crumpet shop in Iraq somewhere, no even better, he could open up an Internet cafe and maybe have his own blog.
Naw, on second thought let him dangle above the same wood chipper he threw so many men and woman down.
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If you commit evil against people who do evil, your evil too.
Commiting murder because someone committed murder makes you the murderer.
An Eye for an Eye only makes the whole world blind.
Ghandi
It is true that Saddam was a monster; so was Idi Amin, Pol Pot, the Shaw of Iran, Marshal Tito, Augusto Pinochet, and a long and every growing list of tyranants. However, unlike these other heads of state, Saddam is to be hanged for his misdeeds.
It should be noted that Saddam could do what no other Iraqi leader has been able to accomplish: keep the peace. It was clearly an terror-based 'peace', but during his regime there was limited sectarian violence, all of which that did occur having been Saddam's direct responsiblity. He was equally hated by all, as was Amin, Pinochet, Tito, etc.
Saddam has never been charged with his most egregious crime: the ten year war with Iran. The reason? what then would be the moral basis for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, a trumped up was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis? As it is, Saddam has suffered the loss of his sons, a grief far more painful than anything that could be afflicted on his person. Let him live to suffer that loss, and never know where the bodies of his sons are buried. That should do as a punishment for those he need closure for the loss of their loved ones.
The only likely outcome hanging Saddam will have is further intolerable violence in Iraq; send him to the World Court in The Hague and hold a real trial; the outcome will be his incarceration for life.
He rightly deserves what's coming to him.
–hr
God, the Creator of the world is the ultimate judge and Saddam will have answer to Him when He returns to give us our just reward! The justice that earthly rulers and courts mete out on behalf of its citizens is justice by the state, and for the state and not the final judgment. So hang him or burn him and scatter his ashes to the ground, the Creator will put them back together and Saddam will be called to account again to face a second and certain death. Should Saddam repent in the next 30 days and ask the Lord to forgive him before he dies at the hands of the state, then when the Lord returns Saddam can receive everlasting life, a man redeemed from a final and permanent death. The punishment he receives at the hands of the state is of no consideration in God's judgment, it only stops the clock for his possible redemption. This is the Word of the Lord - read all about it in 1Thessolonians and the book of Revelation of Jesus Christ! What Ghandi, Buddha, or Mohammed or any other man-made idol think about death is of no relevance, even many Christians ignore what the bible says about death and judgment, but you can read it for yourself. Don't take my word for it and don't worry about Saddam, heed what the Truth is so you receive everlasting life as your reward. What irony if Saddam repents at judgement lives forever, and we all sit around and think we're good enough to go to heaven and we all perish.
The death penalty is wrong and a crime against humanity. Since when do two wrongs make a right. The executioners lower themselves to the same level as the murderer! There are many leaders of state that are responsible for the deaths of many innocent people, including in the United States and Britain. Will they beo executed too? Ask the innocent people of Iraq about that!
this is what is waiting to anyone that cooperates with the us government as saddam Hussein did. and w also understand that the us has not managed to conquer Iran, perhaps this time they will use Israel, we wonder if they will win but it seems they will also fail. but why is all this taking place, why does this people die without reason. or could the reason be quite simple just most folks don't See it they probably exist under a glass prison wall, transparent as they believe they are free but in reality they are not. i guess the ruling elite fear that their servants the lot of you might wake up and perceive reality as it is. so why not keep an eternal war that way you will work until you die or if you don't die working you will be send to the battlefield certainly there you will die.
hope some folks will see were they are and break this glass prison they exist by and liberate not only themselves but their own children's which will be the next victims of this oppressing ruling class.
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