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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I think it would of been better to have held a referendum and asked the Iraqi people the simple question. Life imprisonment or death?
This would of been a blow to the insurgents and shown the true will of the people.
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Maybe not surprising Paul... if ya saw TV channels in the US when Saddam was executed, it would appear Iraqi's were totally in favor of his execution. (They even set up remote crews to show Iraqi's living in the US overjoyed
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But... when you see international channels ... the picture changes quite a bit. The overall impression from these channels is that Iraqi's are not too happy to see him go, but have other concerns on their hands - specifically, staying alive the rest of the day.
Suppose some of these differences may arise depending on sectarian sides within Iraq - and probably an element of propaganda from the US side.