Saddam to hang

[TheMonkey]

Yeah but the double-think propaganda eliminates their need to worry about the moral conflict.

[AtW]

Saddam stopped being a player after first Gulf War, so his fate is really of zero importance. Personally I'd prefer to see scumbag of his kind to suffer lifetime of emprisonment without hope for parole - prison in Iraq would have been much worse than anywhere else anyway, so this is fitting punishment: quick death is too easy.

[hattra]

I disagree BGG, I think the generals have got the balls - its the politicians who haven't.

Saddam Hussain al-Tikriti frankly deserves to die. I don't say that lightly, as I am opposed to the death penalty, but in this case, unfortunately, I think his death is a necessity. I just wish that he could be buried, secretly, in an unmarked grave, to prevent a martyr cult growing up around him, however I don't think anyone has the balls to do that.

Hussain started his political life as a hit-man for the Ba'ath party, and has the blood of a great many people on his hands, much of it in an "up close and personal" way. His sons were a byeword for sadistic, callous and gratuitious violence of the most debauched kind - behaviour that they learnt from their father, who introduced them to it at an early age (I've heard it said that they had both killed men before they were teenagers - though I don't know whether that is true).

Many people are shocked at the number of Iraqis being killed each day at the moment - in reality, if you average out the number of Iraqis who died over the period that Hussain was in power, the figures are much the same as today - the only difference is that the deaths at the moment are in public, not behind the walls of Abu Graihb prison and elsewhere.

Hussain simply murdered his way to the top, and even rewarded the people who got him out of prison for attempting to assassinate an earlier president, by hauling them out of a Ba'ath Party conference one by one, and shooting them in the foyer of the conference hall.

[AtW]

Hussain simply murdered his way to the top, and even rewarded the people who got him out of prison for attempting to assassinate an earlier president, by hauling them out of a Ba'ath Party conference one by one, and shooting them in the foyer of the conference hall.

That's par for the course on this planet where Hitler, Stalin and others not so well PRed did horrible things.

Saddam is the scum that deserves to be tortured slowly until he goes nuts, but there are similar less PRed leaders of the world that gets their hands shaken by democraticly elected people in Europe,USA etc, and similar if not worse monsters financed by you and me every time we refuel car.

[wendigo100]

Hussain simply murdered his way to the top.

Par for the course is many countries. Why not let them all get on with it? If nothing else, it distracted them from terrorising us!

[Churchill]

Many people are shocked at the number of Iraqis being killed each day at the moment - in reality, if you average out the number of Iraqis who died over the period that Hussain was in power, the figures are much the same as today - the only difference is that the deaths at the moment are in public, not behind the walls of Abu Graihb prison and elsewhere.

That's alright then!

There you are you see, we are making a difference.

[wobbegong]

I predict high level abductions. Good job Chuck is back from his jaunt up the Khyber!

[Bagpuss]

He's being hung for amongst other things committing war crimes that America had no problem with at the time. Infact later, knowing very well what he had been up to, they sent their special envoy (Donald Rumsfeld) over to Iraq to give Saddam an award. Not to mention the chemical weapons they supplied him with.

The moral of the story: Be careful if America befriends you, sooner or later they will want you dead.

Hypocrisy of the highest order

[Mordac]

The moral of the story: Be careful if America befriends you, sooner or later they will want you dead.

Bliar should start watching his back then...

[DanTheMan]

Some fairly good points raised so far. I'm all in favour of seeing him go the way of the dodo however. I served in the RAF and spent most of my career in Iraq. Despite what you're all told by the news things have actually changed considerably since Saddam's departure. I saw the transition first hand. Although my last tour out there things were starting to look bad again. Saddam deserves to go because of what he did to thousands of innocent people but then you could say the same thing about pretty much any American leader. I personally think we British have a kind of conneciton with Saddam and him swinging though due to the fact that our country has lost more than its fair share of good servicemen and woman. We're also barraged with news from Iraq every bloody day as we still have a massive prescence over there. I'm glad I don't ever have to go back to be honest and I was more than a little upset when I found out that a lot of my old pals are due to arrive in Afghanistan the day before Christmas.

The war may be wrong for many reasons but after living and working with the Iraqi people I can't help but think that Saddam's sentance is just.