TSGlider

One could argue that he deserved to die for his crimes. This is an easy argument to win.

He is responsible for killing a lot of people. He's responsible for wrecking the lives of everyone--mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers--who had a stake in the lives of those he killed. These are people who will live with a profound loss, a, forgive the melodrama but homicide is melodramatic, a deep, profound hollowness for the rest of their days.

At the same time, you can argue that sadaam would have suffered more fully--sociopath megalomaniac that he was--if he were made to live to a ripe old age in a shitty prison, following orders, performing menial tasks, being beaten, eating wretched food, living like a cur.

But you can also argue that a prison sentence would be an injustice. At some point, every prisoner comes to terms with the life he has, whether it takes one year or ten years. He says, "Well this is my life," and he begin to live within that paradigm, he exists to scale.

And you have to know that at some point imprisoned Sadaam wakes up with a smile, happy to be alive, because today the food will be hot or ?this is the day I won?t be beaten,? or ?this is the day the cameramen come to ask me how I could be such a monster.? Suffering is relative, and a jailed Sadaam would have happy days.

I can see how that would be a hard pill for anyone who suffered under him to swallow?the idea that somehow, in some way, Sadaam woke up happier than me this morning AND he had my daughter killed.

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