Sadam's Verdict

I heard that hanging him was actually out of respect for him. It was either that, or get his head chopped off. And what, with him having been, nonetheless, a political figure, he was granted a nicer, less gruesome punishment.

I understand why you may not like the death penalty. Many people don't. But you've got to understand; this guy caused the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands, of innocent people. I'm sure they didn't deserve to die either.

Another thing is, if you think about it.. I'm sure he was ready to die. Probably miserable as hell, I kinda feel bad for the guy.. almost, but not really.

To me, a life sentance would be worse than the death penalty. I mean, think about it. Death is pretty much quick and easy. (PRETTY MUCH) while spending the rest of your life in cold captivity, the majority of the world hating your guts.. doesn't sound too appealing to me.

I see where you're both coming from. To be honest, I wouldnt really like to be in the situation where I had to choose out of a life sentence or death.

What I think they should do is leave it up to the person, no matter how bad they are, give them a choice. I dont feel that anyone has the right to take someones life, just to protect others from the person, jail takes care of that. But if they wanted the death sentence, let them have it.

pbw

haha good point

to teach people a lesson, I think that the punishment for everything should be death penalty. yeah, you heard me. otherwise, nobody will ever really stop their crimes. They steal, get 2 months in jail and say, "hey, only 2 months? maybe i should kill someone."
it's true, is it not?
if you rape someone, you should be hanged. no matter what you do. if people realize that molesting someone else can get you killed, then they will realize it's totally not worth the risk, and i bet over 40% of crime will be reduced.

to the poster two above me.

don't you think that's a bit exteam. if someone steals to help feed there family. yes it is true that they broke the law but according to you they should recieve the death penalty. that is simply not fair.

yes it is true that some child molesters and rapist might reconsider doing what they do but alot of them, it's a disease they can't help themselves. it's like people with OCD alot of the time they don't want to do what they do but something inside of them get's them to do it anyway. but i still do agree that rapist should be killed or atleast locked up forever, as studies show they are likely to repeat these acts.

The taking of a life deserves no mans honour...

To the person who wants to kill all rapists and theifs,

have you considered those who truly are innocent, however have been wrongfully accused? New evidence wouldn't count for much, if they were dead.

With the Saddam case, I agree with Bob. Being Australian, Bush effects many of Australia's movements in war and destruction. That 'president' is as malevolent as the recently hung. But that's politics for ya.

I believe the crime system is very sticky to set rules too. In the end, a moral issue will always be raised, and objections made. Not everyone will think it's just.

I believe that he should have gotten a worse punishment! Being from the U.S. and all I believe he deserved the hanging! I'm glad he is dead and gone and I hope he is having a grand ol time in hell!!!!!

I completely disagree.... Sadam was wrong and took advantages of his power, but so was George.W.Bush, he sent troops out to war over "weapons of mass destruction" WHEN THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, THERE WAS NO CHEMICAL BOMB!!!!!!!!The weapons they have and use are identical to what Americans use.

You do relise its not Sadam now that U americans have to fear it his sons, when you get a taste of what they can do without their daddy there, well they are bad men....

I think war always comes down to one thing RACISM, think about it its rare for England to be fighting Scotland or Australia fighting America, no these are the white politics who gang up on countries steal their precious minerals and say its wrong for them to enter our countries!

Its all wrong and its all flawed frankly I belive Bush deserves exactly what Sadam got, a quick hanging without notice.... Plus you relize Sadams early hanging was unjust and brought upon by american politics....THE WORLD SHOULD BE AT WAR WITH WASHINGTON, rather then letting them call all the shots!

And now America is trying to recruit more troops...

HOW MANY PEOPLE NEED TO DIE

HOW MANY CASUALTIES WILL THERE BE

HOW MUCH COLLATERAL DAMAGE WILL BE CAUSED

HOW MANY WIDOWERS AND KIDS WITHOUT MUMMIES OR DADDIES WILL BE LEFT

TILL WE LEARN THAT WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER, POWER DOESNT NEED BRUTALITY OR FORCE, AND THAT OUR WORDS CAN BE USED RATHER THEN OUR GUNS!

i agree too with broken_reflection. you convinced me that little bit more that that is the way to go.

no need for blood-shed when it can all be resolved with words.

David

Saddam should have been put before the firing squad. Like my fiance's dad told me; He was a soldier and should have died a soldier.

Personally,
I think hanging him has brought more problems than when he was alive.

And, i dont agree with the death penalty. I think its hypocritical. Murdering someone for murdering someone else, its a vicious cycle. We cant use death as a punishment for death, it makes no sense.

i think the same as the person above me ^^^
i think its really hypocritical of people to say you killed some one, thats a massive crime, its really really bad. and yet we go and do exactly the same thing back to them,
we kill them, then havnt we also done a massive crime, we killed someone too, it maybe different circamstances but its the same action

"We cant use death as a punishment for death" its just not right
xxx

ok yep death punishment is good=]
what else can u use as a deterent???????
the only thing is that it takes a killer/killers to push that butten, flick that switch or pull that cord so yeah why would you give them the choice to die or live that is not justice that is granting them there last wish thats stupid

oh yeah when are the gonna hang bush?
cause now he is the reason thousands have died??
only he pays the people to do it for him.......
hipocrit (or how ever u spell it lol)

In Iraq, thousands of civilians will be diagnosed with cancer in ten years due to D.U. (depleted uranium) radiation. This radiation is caused by a certain element in U.S. weaponry, and the bombardment of those weapons on Iraqi soil. Children play in the ruined tanks in weaponry graveyards. Those children will develop cancer...

It doesn't seem fair to me. I say, we forget about Bush, forget about Saddam, rally about what really matters.

hm. this is controversial[however u spell it..]
killing saddam is just bringing more problems and problems to like......everyone!
many of his supporters are [predictably] going to be rebelling, which they are already doing. this is going to cause more war, and all the things that the u.s. government [bush] is doing is only probably only going to make it worse.

why can't we use that saying the adults used to say to us? the one thing that all adults emphasize about? "violence never solves anything."
so why are we using violence against iraq? bush is acting terribly childish, and some people even support his decisions to send more troops to iraq and not stop the war!

all this fighting is absolutely childish and it's doing major damage to our economy. the us is probably going to be in debt for millions of dollars by the time bush finally gets his head together and pulls in troops from iraq and try to make nice to iraq.

saddam deserved what he got. and he was probably ready for death anyway. some of the witnesses say he had a smile of complete peace when he was going to meet the executioner. some even say he was humming!
he was a tyrant, just like bush is.

imagine if we didn't kill saddam. he was a ruthless tyrant. he was creating freaking genocide! letting him go would be almost exactly the same as letting hitler go! imagine how many jews would be gone today. and if we let saddam go, imagine how many american and iraqi lives would have been taken by now.

"I can't help but wonder now that Saddam is gone, who will take his place? Where is Osama Bin Laden? And how is it with our government, that we mysteriously cannot find him? Please. It's all a hoax. With our technology and we can't find one measily guy?"

Osama died a while back of natural causes

I think that killing Saddam was a mistake. I appreciate that he has done horrid things to people in his country and under no circumstance do I sympathise with him, but, I think that someone who has murdered should not be killed. I don't think anyone should be killed. Sure, he has killed and hurt so many people; I am not taking anything away from that. I can only imagine how broken people are because of this one man, but, in my opinion he should be left alive. He should be in prison. He should not be getting any luxuries or any special treatment. He should have been left in prison as a normal prisoner and left to his own thoughts and imagination. I realise that for many people such a punishment is not enough. But ton those people, can you really grant life and death. Killing him is murder, just as his own past was full of murder. There are no good killings. Doing a bad deed for a good reason is still not a good thing.

It was all in the papers and on the news in England months ago, he was on dialysis (sp?) and his kidneys failed eventually.
So.. natural causes

well i was looking up some info on da web about osama bi laden an there are three theories about him (last told in 2002 ) they say dat he has been killed during US/Afghan actions against his hideouts in Afghanistan, he is still hiding in the Afghan mountains, he is hiding in the Pakistani mountains. maybe he is alive or dead no one realy nows u cant balive wat da preast and news all ways say

It was all in the papers and on the news in England months ago, he was on dialysis (sp?) and his kidneys failed eventually.
So.. natural causes

^^^
Didn't know that either. Hm...silly government. I always have been a fan of conspiracy theories though, so perhaps it's all a ploy. ;-) People can be rather tricky.

Ah the ol' goverment thing.
I agree with you on the conspiracy thing. Too many things have happened in the recent past to be 'accidental'
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