Saddam Hussein Executed

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ea I really wouldnt have cared if he was imprisoned for the rest of his life or excecuted.I hope the foolish Bush understands that this doesnt make us happy or make things any better.
They say terrorist will now focus in aiming more attacks on US land.
According to the muslim religion we just did Saddam a huge favor and sent him to his afterlife where he will live like a king.....muhahahaa...yea right become great king my a$$! More like be the devils little biatch!
Hope I didnt offend any Muslims on here!
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
It's been two weeks now that a pack of wild boars killed Saddam Hussein, and still no one cares.
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That's probably the reason wht they told us they'd had "executed" him so "soon"... :scratch:
 
Sander said:
Yeah, but the trial will still be held. Eh, kind of pointless, though.
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well, plenty others to accuse of things in that trial, but without Saddam testifying, it's kinda pointless indeed.

Sander said:
Interesting that they wanted a day linked specifically to Saddam, and hence they will execute the others at different dates, but still held the execution on a religious holiday.
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justice shouldn't be delayed on grounds that it's a religious holiday. justice is blind and shouldn't wait.

LouisH said:
They say terrorist will now focus in aiming more attacks on US land.
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doubtful...

you do realise that with the exception of the palestines, most arab 'terrorists' weren't on too friendly terms with Saddam. hell, he did his best to keep any extremists out of his country you know, since it was a danger to his own regime. sure, he gathered some sympathy with fighting 2 gulf wars against the muricans, but other than that?

in the end, there are only the Baathists that really loved Saddam and i doubt they'll be attacking US soil any time soon. all the others might add Saddam's death to their list of reasons to bomb the US, but it's extremely unlikely it'd be the sole reason...

Saddam already played out his part and had become a useless pawn in the game anyway. i'm guessing most insurgents even celebrated his death due to his views on extremists (although they wont admit it).

LouisH said:
According to the muslim religion we just did Saddam a huge favor and sent him to his afterlife where he will live like a king.....muhahahaa...yea right become great king my a$$! More like be the devils little biatch!
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he asked for a firing squad (to die like a soldier) but they didn't grant him that favor ;)
 
What I want to know is if anyone has the video of Saddam on a string.

Anyone got a link?

Personally I think all executions should be made public. That's how they used to do it in the good ole days.
 
That Saddam's executioners chanted their religious-like allegiance to Muqtada al-Sadr ("Muqtada! Muqtada!"), the Shiite militia leader whom we are told is now the greatest threat to stability and American interest in Iraq, to a tied up man about to die? Not exactly encouraging, and likely to inflame sectarian violence even further.

Through one low-quality cellphone video, Hussein secured his status as a martyr who died defying Shi'ite Islamic thugs. We ought have let him rot in prison for the rest of his life, for intelligence reasons alone.
 
I like how they were all shouting random disrespectful things around as Saddam was about to be executed.

Whatever happened to respecting your enemies and honouring the dead?
 
Ashmo said:
I like how they were all shouting random disrespectful things around as Saddam was about to be executed.
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I wish they'd been random things, but every Arabic slogan shouted at him during the execution were specific pledges to Shi'a Islam and militant Islamic cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. I'll find the transcript later, but it was pretty much a mix of Shi'ite prayers (a sectarian insult, praying Shi'ite prayers during a Sunni Muslim's execution), telling Saddam to "go to Hell," and "Muqtada! Muqtada! Muqtada!"

To be yelling those things at a bound man with a noose around his neck makes Shi'ites look like thuggish cowards to Iraq's Sunni population, to say the very least. Hussein even managed to look good in his response, remaining composed, and answering the "go to Hell" shouting with "what Hell, the Hell that Iraq has become?"

Ashmo said:
Whatever happened to respecting your enemies and honouring the dead?
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I can't say Saddam Hussein deserved respect or honor, but it was definitely in the best interest of America (and Iraq's American-backed government) to carry out this execution in a swift, legal, solemn manner. To bring closure to Saddam Hussein's life without making him into a martyr.

They somehow managed to do the exact opposite.
 
Ehe, they are now claiming that the execution was infiltrated and the people shouting were not the designated executors, but people who wanted to stir up more violence.
 
O Rly? Then why didn't they have security kick them out when they started stirring up trouble?

I agree that Saddam was probably pretty honourless (at least he was pretty good at dishonouring himself in the past), but if an execution is supposed to be anything more than savage vengeance through murder, the past deeds of the executed are pretty much unimportant to the situation at hand,

It's a matter of common courtesy to be respectful towards people you defeat, kill or execute. It's about your honour, not theirs.

Then again, I think death penalty in general is a bad idea (at least if you intend to claim it to be any more than vengeance) and even more so in this particular case, considering the political context and everything.

If at all, it should have been handled far more discrete than the circus they turned it into.
 
Sander said:
Ehe, they are now claiming that the execution was infiltrated and the people shouting were not the designated executors, but people who wanted to stir up more violence.
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Link?
 
Saddam went down defiant to the end. I saw a video of his full execution and even in death, he still kept a hard face.

Oh, well, one less badman in the world.
 
I agree completely with everything Ashmo wrote. First of all is the matter of stupidly adding more fuel to the civil/religious war fire. Second, if you are already executing a man, you should at least treat him with some modicum of respect, regardless of who he was.
 
The U.S. supported Saddam for years, as seen in its own government documents. Many police and military generals and local politicians who terrorized the populace now work for the U.S. In many cases, Saddam's enemies are now killing Iraqis and Americans. The number of American dead has now exceeded the number of those who were killed on 9-11, and no one knows how many Iraqis have died because of this invasion (or the last). In very recent news, the U.S. plans to increase the number of troops by extending tours and sending other units earlier from an armed forces that is already stretched thin, consisting of many soldiers who want to end their tours, supported by a country in debt (over $50 trillion in total liabilities) and characterized by low levels of recruitment to the military.
 
i believe it was 21.500 more soldier to Iraq, if Bush gets it his way. i wonder where he'll get the extra money btw. the USA is already deeeeeep into the red.
 
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