What's Saddam's death gonna accomplish?
 

Pretty much nothing. I mean why is everyone so happy, he's getting out easy. He murdered and tortured thousands and all he gets is the rope?

Call me crazy but I'm not seeing any justice in that.

1 word "closure"

i don't see the justice in killing someone because he killed either. it would be better if he did community service for the rest of his life, or something to make the world a better place.

it will accomplish the end of 'saddam being executed in X amount of hours' threads

It will accomplish justice for the thousands he killed and it would be too much work to supervise him to make sure he doesnt escape. In about 2 hours he will be able to answer the question of is there life after death.

It will make him smell bad.

in terms of solving things in iraq, it will maybe stop people trying to bring him back to power. for example in old england when queens or kings had challenges to the throne they would 99% often kill the challlenger to make sure his supporters never tried again.

this should hopefully stop fighting and the fact that saddam will never be in power.

on the other hand it could backfire and fighting could erupt even worse of him being a martyr etc.


anyway a big pile of worms. that middle east will never have peace. period.

I don't believe in killing him; I think it lets him off easy. Instead I think we should put him in a cold dark damp cell, feed him nothing but bread and water, and allow him to rot in darkness for the next forty years.

It wont accomplish anything, its an outrage, what if some country came in the US and takes our president and hangs him because of a military conflict where people are killed.... and with a completely unfair trial its obvious, due to half the people being thrown out and judges basically ignoring anything defense says or does.

he did too many fucked up things...this must be done

I cant imagine what some iraqis went through because of him. He kept them in underground cells and tortured them. The same thing should happen to him but dying sucks too so good riddance.

It will turn him into a martyr for many in the middle east, regardless of what he did or did not do in life. It will help to further solidify the current state of disarray in Iraq, creating a stable (funny) atmosphere of instability.

it will bring peace in the middle east. :2 cents:

Doubt there is any accomplishment PB.

Chances are after his execution there will be an increase in killings in Iraq and most of these victims will be innocent people - killed in response to Saddam's execution.

Sure, there is an arguement that it may be some closure for the families of his victims - but that is not usually the case in reality.

Only my :2 cents: - Hussein should never have been tried in Iraq, but thru international courts and all alleged offenses tried in these courts and with full witness testimony permitted. The charade of a courtroom in Iraq did not allow victims their say, nor did it reach any level of justice. It's basically "justice Florida style" dumped on Iraq and stage-managed by US govt agents and contractors - a farce. Little doubt Saddam would have been found guilty of some offenses in international courts and the penalty would not attract a death sentence. Again - there is something "just" about that. If guilty, it would be relevent he spend the rest of his life in a jail cell with no chance of release.

PS Saddam is not the only "perp" who needs to stand trial in the ICC - a few other hypocritical leaders need to join him :)

It boldly tells the world... umm... that we are fighting terror there so we don't have to fight it here... or something like that, or stay the course... I think.

You mean like the USA did with the prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, or the various other prison camps around the world where we are holding and torturing people without reason or without charge?

And that's just what we know about. Imagine what's really going on...

Many Iraqis will celebrate.
Many Americans will celebrate.
Many Europeans will celebrate.
Many Middle-Easterners will celebrate.
Bin Ladin, he too, will celebrate.

There are no clean hands anywhere DWB :)

not many things i think

Kill 2,740 Americans
 

Kill 2,740 Americans and America will take over 2 countries and kill over 100,000+ people by the time this is all over with. Now I ask you can you really be that stupid to fuck with America?

i don't think the killing of him will accomplish any settlement in iraq apart from closure to the families , but the war will still go on , you have all the factions fighting control for turf if anything that is one thing that saddam had under control the groups knew the punishment if they tried anything

ah see but that's the thing , saddam did fuck all to america , it was bin laden the one that sent the planes crashing killing the 2,740 , it was at that stage that bush had a good excuse to leech the oil from iraq under the excuse that saddam was involved in the terrorist act too

then when the excuse of the terrorist actions didn't work , he pushed the whole wmd thing , but yet to do this day no wmds have been found

Saddam fucked with "America"? Never noticed - did he fuck with other countries as well? Brazil? Sweden? Spain? China?

"America" elected to invade Iraq based on lies. This was a choice freely taken. Sure, there are more innocent people killed in Iraq than US troops. That is not an achievement - more a total fucking disaster all round. There are penalties for such stupid conduct - time will show the real cost of US intervention and no doubts it will be more than 2470 US troops. You reap the seed you sow - sometimes folks are slow learners. This is not the first time.

Are you a Hussein follower?



Canada should burn the whitehouse down one more time, just for old times sake, lol

read : fucking-around-and-business-discussion/691086-rush-hang-saddam-hussein.html

they shoulda tortured him to death

eyes for an eye

pretty much it

That's because he gave them to iran under the radar.

Now that is funny :1orglaugh

Good post Tony - and more than valid :thumbsup

What If saddam stayed in power and nuked us. Then What?

justice for the millions that suffered because of him.

please choke on a preztel :2 cents:

DUH? And why would Hussein be interested in "nuking" the US? What if Iceland wanted to nuke the US - you gonna bomb the shit out of Iceland based on more lies??

There are far more countries much nearer Iraq than the US - that's of course assuming Hussein had any WMD and assuming he had any reason to use them. DUH DUH! :)

Ah.. That's shorter and sweeter df! :1orglaugh

It will kill the one person that could bring peace and stability back to Iraq.

``The execution might bring some amusement and accomplishment to the Bush administration, but it will not help the Iraqi people,'' Siblani said. ``The problem we're facing in Iraq is going to multiply.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...310950,00.html

So Bush gets what he really wanted at the price of near 3000 US kids dead, 300 billion spending and collateral damage of 200 - 500 000 civilian deaths.


Heck of a job , Georgie :thumbsup

public spectacle!!! BLood! ENTERTAINMENT~!

lol
back to the middle age..

i am sometimes scared to live on this planet, when i dont see any changes in thinking of some people.

hey. we dont live in the middle age, not in "wild west" etc.

killing someone, even the person has done bad things to others like murdererd,
does not make "you" better than the one who is going to be killed.

saddam, btw, should have had have benn on court at den haag in the netherlands.

You gotta be kidding, he put his country on a non-stop war since 1980:1orglaugh

Bush will get credit of some small minded sheep in the US who absolutely dont see the big picture of this useless war.

Other then that, thousands of soldiers and civilians died, the US has grown their debt to record heights, a civil war is going on in Iraq, the chaos there will be at it's peak once saddams executed, and......... bin laden, who is accused of being behind 9/11, is still not captured.

Way to go! :thumbsup

More important than any of that - it gives CNN/Fox and the other US channels a feeble attempt at programming and being able to introduce talking heads - and keep emphasizing how the US govt had no hand in any of Iraq's affairs :1orglaugh Pass me another towel...

Hell, they even set up remote crews to broadcast some Iraqi's in the US having a party - like that's news? :winkwink: It's best to convey to the sheep that all Iraqi's are overjoyed about Saddam's execution - that's why there will be more killings in Iraq shortly and why US embassies have been warned of possible attacks. It's all about "our values" and "spreading freedom and democracy" :pimp

Way to go! :thumbsup

also makes IRAN happy ...

Of course - and should make Osama smile at his prospects :)

Saddam was the one who brought hatery between sunni and shia in Irak. He used toxic gas weapons against irakians. He was a disaster for his country, a cruel dictator. Putting him off will end a dark era in the irakian nation history, no matter who profits on a short term or not, who´s fucking political advantage is or not.

Looks like Bush's advisors are posting again

it makes for one hell of a 50 spot:)