Saddam Hussein Hanged

Excellent. Now for the celebratory drink and a phone call to Cousin Luci to chat about the new arrival.
 
Why the Hague? He was sentenced for his involvement in the deaths of 148 people in Dujail--a city in Iraq.

He's an Iraqi. He was convicted--errrrr......

Let me start again.

Saddam WAS an Iraqi. He was convicted in connection with crimes on Iraqi soil. So what's wrong with an Iraqi court?
 
I missed the execution? Why no warning? What were his last words? I mean come on, what a lousy execution!
 
Saddam meets justice at last: Good. Now that we've meted out human justice, he get's to go explain his actions to God - I have a sneaking suspicion that Saddam's in for quite an eternity in hell. Perhaps it's not very Christian of me to not find that terribly sad, but somehow I'm not at all sad that Saddam is most likely going to hell.

I missed the execution? Why no warning? What were his last words? I mean come on, what a lousy execution!
Don't worry. Given how things are these days, it'll probably be up on YouTube within 24 hours. :p

I'm not sure whether I should be disgusted by that, or not.
 
I don't know what it is, because I supported the death penalty for Saddam, but somehow this all just feels wrong.
 
I don't know what it is, because I supported the death penalty for Saddam, but somehow this all just feels wrong.

Do tell.

If he's dead, alls well. Deed is done and all that.
 
I don't know what it is, because I supported the death penalty for Saddam, but somehow this all just feels wrong.
Maybe it's the speed. In the US we take years to do this sort of thing, but the Iraqi's aren't wasting any time.
 
Saddam meets justice at last: Good. Now that we've meted out human justice, he get's to go explain his actions to God - I have a sneaking suspicion that Saddam's in for quite an eternity in hell. Perhaps it's not very Christian of me to not find that terribly sad, but somehow I'm not at all sad that Saddam is most likely going to hell.

Yeah, no 72 virgins for this goon.
 
Dear god, CNN is now reporting that one of the whithness of the execution says that the Shiites at the execution started dancing around the body of saddam and chanting Shiite songs and prayers....

Are they trying to make things as bad as possible or what?

Now watch how Al-Quaeda makes him a martyr and how many more Sunni Jihadists will go to Iraq.
 
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Why? His crimes were against Iraqis. He was tried by Iraqis in an Iraqi court under Iraqi law and exacuted by Iraqis. If it went the UN he'd of never been exacuted.

Why? because even though he richly deserved his fate, this will be seen simply as Shiite vengence with American backing by a great many people and possibly lead to more harm then good. A trail by an international court would have lent more credence to his conviction then the sideshow that was run in Iraq. However if the storm blows over in the next while without repercussions then once again I will say good ridance to him.
 
Weird, Global TV is treating this like a weather warning, with a message scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
 
If we hauled Saddam off to the Hague and tried him there, what would be different? It could still be seen as Shiite vengeance, with American backing, and would "prove" to the Sunnis that the UN is in on the whole anti-Sunni conspiracy.

And the accusation that the UN is just a U.S. puppet isn't a new thing.
 
1. Trial was laughable to Democractic Standards

2. Saddam should have been tried in an International Court so a degree of ligitamacy could have been achieved in the Judicial Process (Iran-Iraq)

3. Saddam is executed

4. Democratic American's support undemocratic Execution

5. Saddam is tried for one crime amongst a multitude

6. Capital Punishment; not widely accepted in most Democratic countries.

7. American government keeps quiet, acts as if it had no part in this:

Saddam tries to assassinate Bush Sr.
Saddam threatens Western Oil Supply
Saddam invades Kuwait
U.S. invades Iraq
 
1. Trial was laughable to Democractic Standards

Why?

2. Saddam should have been tried in an International Court so a degree of ligitamacy could have been achieved in the Judicial Process

What makes the Iraqi process illegitimate?

(Iran-Iraq)

Huh?

4. Democratic American's support undemocratic Execution

What makes this execution undemocratic? The fact that all Iraqis weren't given the opportunity to vote on it? Yes, in that sense, it was not a democratic execution.

5. Saddam is tried for one crime amongst a multitude

Do you have any idea how long it would have taken to try him for all of his crimes?

6. Capital Punishment; not widely accepted in most Democratic countries.

But it's accepted in Iraq.

7. American government keeps quiet, acts as if it had no part in this:

Saddam tries to assassinate Bush Sr.
Saddam threatens Western Oil Supply
Saddam invades Kuwait
U.S. invades Iraq

This was an Iraqi process. The US government has done their best to keep themselves out of it. It's important that Iraq executes their own brutal tyrant. Making a list of Saddam's attacks against America doesn't provide any useful insight, except that the world is a much better place without him.
 
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