Saddam Hussein

[Barry Scott]

I feel sorry for him for some reason. Yes he's a cunt, and yes he's killed lots, or so we're told, but he was just going about his business till Bush decided they needed oil.

They go into his country on false grounds, destroy the country, it's system of government (as token as it was), seize the oil, kill loads of the country's people, kill loads of yanks and brits and then kill him.

We now have an unstable country with a volatile population, loads of dead country men and no way out, at least without making ourselves look like the cunts we are.

Bush has made millions personally, the US has made millions, we have probably made a fair wack and the people there are arguably worse off.

It's a classic case of the bigger people fucking the small and dressing it up as "doing the right thing".

I'd love to see figures showing how many people have been killed per year, pre-war and how many since the "war on terror  ()" has begun .

[genf_stfc]

usually i'm fully against the death penalty, but in this case, i just don't know why they bothered going to trial in the first place, and giving him an opportunity to have a public platform before he gets executed - since everyone knows he is guilty of all sorts of atrocities and everyone knows he would be executed in the end.  

If he had 'tried to escape' when they first found him, they could have topped the sick fuck there and then and saved the time and cost of sending him to trial - not to mention the lives of the judges and lawers that got blown up in the process.

[Sade]

I personally feel that he does deserves it. I can't help but think back and watching some disturbing footage on tv,where he got some of his men to lead innocent people and children into a trench and then shoot them.Its discusting.The man is an animal and deserves to go through every single thing that those poor people went through.He does not deserve to be alive......I'm against the argument 'if they do that to him,that just makes them as bad as him'.....this man deserves it.He's sick.

[Barry Scott]

Despite what i've typed above, you're both completely right. He does deserve to die, i think we just went about it the wrong way.

[janaage]

It's not necessarily about that though.  It whether when it comes down to it we as individuals, whether in a position of power or not, should have the authority to say when we should kill someone, because that's what we're effectively doing.

What is disturbing is when politicians come out after the news almost rejoicing at the news of a man's death sentence.

[mattboyslim]

I'm in some agreement with Barry, and I'm not entirely sure capital punishment is good for 'normal criminals', but in this case I think it's for the best, the fear of martydom is there, but if you commit crimes in a country, you're leaving yourself at the will of that country's legal system.

[walrus]

Doing work for the good of the community?  What exactly could this decrepid, civilisation-hating old man possibly offer for the community?  He's too old for physical labour, and he's hardly going to be cooperative is he?

I'd have slung him in a fucking hole of a jail to see out his days there, but then this costs money.  Maybe killing him is the easiest way.

[land_of_bo]

I don't see how we can say it is fair when as a nation we abolished the death penalty.

Granted, he was a cunt, and probably still is. More importantly, I can't believe they let him dye his hair when he was in prison!

[sonic youth]

however he will become a martyr to the sunnis, not good.

agreed.

there's no doubt saddam deserves to be strung up for his crimes, but it's just going to make him a martyr and will trigger more violence. however, if he had been locked away for the rest of his natrual life then he couldn't be made into a martyr and frankly it'd be thoroughly humiliating him.

death is the easy way out for him. no point leaving him in a cell to "dwell" on what he's done because he's not going to feel any remorse but there was no other option really, given the number of people he killed.

i was surprised to read earlier that he was sentenced to death for murder and given ten years each for use of torture and enforced deportation respectively - that's fuck all!

the trial wasn't exactly fair and i believe some human rights were breached, but hey, genocidal dictators pretty much forfeit them when they start murdering people.

[janaage]

I'd rather be a sunni than a shite.

[red macca]

fuck him let him rot hang the hindu wanker.no matter what the outcome of this had been he would of ended up a martyre he could of ended up dying of flu and they would of worshipped him still

[millom red]

He should have been shot the first time around when he was in sniper range of one of our finest! The yanks bottled it and wouldnt give the nod.
Yes he should die, and i hope it is long and painfull. If it were down to me, i would let mosad play with him for a little while first.

To those of you who DO NOT think Soddem should be topped, what the fuck do we do with Bin-Laden then if we ever get our mitts on him? Happy slap him and then send him back to Tora Bora?
Oh and by the way, you CAN still hang in this country for high treason if im not mistaken, and in my mind Soddem HAS commited high treason against his own people.
Let the fucker swing!

Millom

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[Dr Pierre Chang]

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He's escaped

[janaage]

Oh and by the way, you CAN still hang in this country for high treason if im not mistaken.(

You are mistaken sir.  That punishment was abolished in 1998 (the year of the Calderwood man marking Ronaldo out of the opening match of the world cup) I do believe.

[Batch]

I thought it was abolished in the 70'. Either way you can't be hanged.

edit: no you were right, high treason at time of war was 1998.