boobmaster

I know I am going to get flamed for saying this but I don't care. Seeing the recent news photos of Saddam, I can't help but have some sympathy for this man. I will admit that if he is guilty of even half the atrocities he has been accused of committing, then it is hard to argue he deserves any mercy at all. He is a man who showed no mercy to his victims and now the world wants to put him to death and televise it for everyone to see.

Execution may be a fitting punishment for this man but what would be the point of that now? Would killing him bring back any of his victims? Would it make the world a safer place in which to live? He no longer has the power to harm anyone. How would killing him openly accomplish any more than keeping him in confinement for the remainder of his days, which, given his age, would most likely not be for long anyway?

There are a million reasons to throw the book at Saddam and not a single reason to show him even an ounce of mercy. I say we should show him mercy anyway. We have nothing to gain by killing him, yet we have the opportunity to send the message that we, unlike the Saddams of the world, place value on human life, ALL HUMAN LIFE. The killing has to stop with someone. I say let it stop with us.

Boobmaster