What was the hurry to hang SADDAM?

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I know! The people who took over Saddams power did not want him to come back to power. So, they hanged him.

George C

Many countries, unlike the USA, have a short appeal process and believe that sitting on death row for years, 10-14 in Louisiana and Texas and as much as 24 years in California, is cruel and unusual punishment.

I think the day they are convicted and sentenced to die, all their appeals need to go out right then. After 30 days, if they are not over turned, execute the convicted person. We have people in California death row who have gotten Doctorate degrees and college under their belt at the taxpayers expense. Is that right??? I don't think so. They did a crime, are convicted, carry out the sentence.

goose1077

It's the law in Iraq to hang someone who is sentence to it within 30 days. Saddam wasn't special.

zigfieldalamo

Justice delayed is justice denied!

plagam_extremam_infligere

well you know the 31st is the end of the year and they could write off the rope and gallows cost on next years taxes

netnazivictim

This question would best be asked of an Iraqi schooled in their laws. Seems that they have this gone in 30 days law.

eggman

The Iraqi system of justice isn't as squeamish about carrying out the death penalty as the American system is... In America condemned criminals are typically on 'death row' for as much as a decade or more while an exhaustive appeals process plays itself out, but in the middle east, where human life is not held in the same high (too damn high) regard as it is in the states, the condemned gets one appeal (Saddam's failed, big surprise) and then its off to the gallows with them, no big deal... if anyone on the planet needed to be killed it was Saddam, he was a megamaniacal dictator who took 'ruthless' to a new level... he gassed his own people (Kurds) to death more than once, and that's just one of the many things he did which warranted and justified his execution.... Good Riddance!!

DOOM

Justice is much swifter here in Iraq than in America. He had his appeal, and then according to the judicial system, his sentence had to be carried out within one month. America did not carry out Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti's punishment; Iraq did. You may as well ask why the Russian legal system is different than our own.

asugarbaby420

LETS SEE.....HUMMM.... Could it maybe be the mass murders that he commited!!

POLARIS

Wanna borrow my Kleenex?

jnwmom

The Iraqis want to kill him before their holy holiday came up.I believe it would have started the next day.They cannot kill another muslim on the holy day celebration.Its was the Iraqis hurry as the united states was just holding him for security purposes,we had no say so in the timing of his hanging.

lordkelvin

Why wait??....

Faisal

yeah im wondernig that too .. they could have waited few days
i mean its eid for muslims and new year for christians they just had to ruin that .. ugh., bush is no fun

italianoxdude

For the people in Iraq, the sooner the better!

IRWEASEL

Prove a point to the world and to Iraq that chumps won't get away with anything. Disagree with it or not, they did it to prove that they will deal with those they deem evil post haste, there won't be any "oj simpsons" on the global scale.

curious_One

I assumed it was fitting of his culture -- trying to be politically correct and all.

Avner Eliyahu R

Probably to end the year with a "good event" (in the eyes of the occupation forces and their puppet regime).

Eco-Savvy

Bush has to save Days like New year or 25 th December for his death,

Georgewasmyfavorite

As far as I'm concerned we ought to adopt this custom from the iraquis.Let anyone sentenced to the death penalty be promptly sent to the great judge of us all.Think of the savings in resources not to mention the torture inflicted on those who spend decades on death row.

lovelornlarry

The rope was a rental and to have it on New Years would have cost at least $40-50 bucks more an hour. anything to save a buck...

Gustav

A mistake, now there is no going back. He should have been taken out of Iraq from the first day, like to Guantanamo and left there.

verda hb

since the judges would not allow certain evidence that might have proven Sadam was not as guilty as claimed, and the fact this trial was a fiasco or better put a stacked job, where only derogatory evidence was presented , I am sure at least some of the people didn't want the whole truth to be known as many others would have been implicated and face the same charges, if there had not been good reasons such as stated, there is no apparent reason for the hurry,

Rammy

He was too sinful!Do you feel he should be given more lifetime? He has killed more than a 100 !And thats no way a simple crime!

Monu

Tonny Blair and George Bush were caught naked for their Iraq war policy by their country men. Their public image was sliding and the death trap which their sholdiers are facing in Iraq had forced them to take this cowardly move in hurry.Whole world knows that Saddam was not given chance to prove himself not guilty of the charges levelled. His three lawyers were killed. Only things where forcefully endorsed over him.
Every body knows that it was dirty politic of USA & Britain. Leaders of this two great nations were ashamed of facing their own people, so they tried to pleasee them on new year by killing Saddam.
Today thousands of people have died after and during the Iraq war. Who is guilty for it ? At an average 100 people die daily today in Iraq who is responsible?
Does USA dont know that Osama is hidding in Pakistan not in Iraq, What action it has taken against Pak?
It is open politics that once the economy of there nation had slowed down they wanted to controll the oil reserves of this nation and indirectly influence the industrial growth of their own country. What ever they have damaged by bombing will again have to be build up at the cost of oil reserves and sovergintiy of Iraqi people.
They are in win win position any how. They have a levish life at the cost of bloods of poor people.

heaartbreak k

The US is fighting a lost battle in iraq,by hanging saddam suddenly Bush has tried to divert the american ppls attention from the losses in Iraq,the american ppl wants their forces back from iraq at the earliest and Bush knows that he has to lreave iraq soon and he by hanging saddam he has made sure that a US unfriendly Govt in iraq does not come back into power the moment they leave iraq

himanshu s

The only thing that could have hasted the decision to hang him could be that George w Bush wanted to celebrate the New Year in peace..

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