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shyteforbrains
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he could have just been released- what was he going to do- found a new country? |
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xquis81
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He deserved to be torchured for several years first, then slowly killed. His victims suffered much worse than he did! |
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Leogirl0804
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there was no such thing as high enough security when it came to Saddam. The thought that he would somehow get free was like an ax over the people of Iraq's head. His hanging took this ax away. |
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Natasha
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This is a tough one. I believe that no one has a right to take another life. But them I think about Bin Laden or someone who rapes children and they certanly should die. I think that if a person is left in seclusion for the rest of their life with no TV or books or anything to do their own thoughts will make them go insane. Then again Jesus did not promote revenge. And this would probably go against our constitution as cruel and unusual punishment. As a society we are responsible to carry the burden of the bad individuals in our society so he should have been jailed with his 3/day meals and a TV. |
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Stormie
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Definitely deserved to be hung.....although he should have been tortured first! Why allow him to kick back in Club Fed? |
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3 para
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it was the right thing to hang him.
no doubt some one would have broke him out or used hostages to barter his release.
i dont agree with the way he was paraded and mocked his hanging should have been more somber |
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Valerie
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If Saddam was allowed to live then he would remain a political threat to the government. He would be able to maintain a loyal following, every word he utters in public would be news worthy, he would remain the strongest voice of the Iraqi people.
If he was not killed, then someway, somehow, he would have been about to return to power. Once in power he would have eliminated all his political opponents, and no one would question if he was being politically correct. |
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Troubled Joe(the ghost of)
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hanged and left in a high security jail |
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Norm
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He did yes |
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luley1
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Yes he deserved to be hung. If he was left even in a high security jail he would have been released. His people would have found a way to release him even if that meant using force and harming more people |
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L J
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Yea he had it comming for his crimes yea it was a quick one but he's gone and the sooner we all forget him the better. |
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QPRfan
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the burke who keeps flipping everyone off deserves to be executed.slowly |
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blapath
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In general I am against execution. But there are special cases, especially when the criminal is charged with crime against humanity. Saddam was responsible for thousand and even hundred thousands people dead. He deserved his fate. |
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BriteHope
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Too risky to keep him alive, and I'm sure the rope was cheaper then putting him in jail. Evil evil man. He is looking up at us, I'm sure |
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i-know-everything!!
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i think he was better off being hanged because if he were to be left in a high security jail the amount of protesters and rebels that would cause riots and try to break him out would be enormous. |
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Tangula G
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Yes I think so because he killed alot of good people. |
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wingshooter08
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I would have gassed him like he did the Kurds, and televised it! |
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Sugar J
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If there is ever a reason for the death penalty, this is it. Other world leaders with genocidal notions better check themselves. |
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johanna
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he is dead and i'm glad |
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Mordent
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Deserve or not, that is irrelevant. If you execute someone, no matter how bad they were during their life, they WILL be viewed as a martyr. This is exactly what has happened to Hussein. People have forgotten everything he did, and only remember the fact that he was executed by the US (yeah, you can forget the 'jury of Iraqis' nonsense, it was a puppet court and everyone knows it). Many Sunnis now see him as a hero who died trying to protect them, this will only add fuel to the civil war. A similar thing happened to the early IRA, most Irish people didn't support them - until they were executed, when they saw a HUGE surge in popularity for their cause. If you left Hussein to rot in a prison then people forget about him - and then he dies anyway, alone and irrelevant. |
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wizardof1977
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At the beginning I have to tell you guys and gals I am an Iraqi working here in UK. Saddam has been a cause of pain and suffering for millions for decades, death was not the proper punishment, actually there is no proper earthly way I can think of to have better punishment than what GOD had prepared for him in hell BUT.. the way he was executed was wisely prepared by whoever wants things to get worst in Iraq. The Americans was keeping him in custody all the time, why they’ve decided to give him away to the so called “Government” to execute him, any idiot would have know that proper authority should be there to supervise the execution and the same idiot would know that the Iraqi “Government” is not an authority of any kind.
If I let myself loos I will keep talking for ages so I better shut up and hid myself in shame because what had happened had carried the name of my country over it. |
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Helen P
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Saddam only needed to be hanged just in case he blew the whistle on who actually sold him WMD's. All the WMD's found in Komashia warehouse at the end of the gulf war had British French and USA labels on them. Sold to Saddam to help him blitz Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. Those WMD's were found, the RAF was sent in to bomb the warehouse to smithereens without taking an inventory - precisely because it would have been too shaming to admit our part in Saddam's WMD atrocities. We knew for certain he had WMD's because we sold them to him. What we then did was to destroy what we found at the end of the firtst Gulf war without ascertaining that we had destroyed everything sold to Saddam. Britain does not believe in the death penalty but didn't dare say so for fear that Saddam would live long enough to really tell the whole story. We in the UK are shamed by the fact that John Prescott - Deputy Prime Minister - only spoke against hanging Saddam after he had been hanged. Talk about shutting the stable door ..... |
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jrexpr2222
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Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and murderer who ordered and in some cases personally participated in the brutal execution of thousands of people who were killed because of their opposition to his regime. If there were ever a good case for the death penalty, Saddam Hussein probably would be it.
On the other hand, the international community generally frowns upon the death penalty, the United States is one of the only countries in the United Nations that actually has the death penalty (in certain states), and death by hanging is considered cruel and unusual punishment even in the U.S (which no longer permits hangings).
So to answer your question, Saddam probably deserved to be executed, but it was unfortunate that he was executed in such a primitive and cruel manner, as doing so undermined the legitimacy of the entire process. |
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Tallboy
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He deserved the death penalty but not the way it was done. It made his executioners no better than he was. |
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Gloria J P
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Is he dead with all the stand in people he had or doubles? |
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Ms Hermione Granger
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it's not our place to decide.it's for the Powers tht Be to. |
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dvd_line20002000
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no he should have be left alone we should not be in his land there has been more deaths since we invaded.as his people have said many times "bring back Saddam"it wasmore peaceful |
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James Mack
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No one deserves to be hanged and justice would have been better served by a life prison sentence.
The war was illegal and the US is now paying the price for its mistakes. |
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The Pope
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The only thing they did wrong with it was that they didn't sell pay per view tv to watch it. . . I would have paid $5 to catch it live. Love, The Pope! |
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curlycute
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I don't believe in the death penalty so that's my answer. As a matter of fact, my state right now is trying to abolish that law and I'm very happy about it. |
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