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SonShadowCat
Member #1,548
September 2001
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It's about time, they finally executed him! |
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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I think it would have been better to judge him to a life time in prison. A lot of his criminal acts are now never going to be handled and brought to justice. |
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nonnus29
Member #2,606
August 2002
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We got this new guy at work who's in the National Gaurd (like the reserves, but even more gay). He got back from a tour in Iraq in November. The guy is full of stories (in fact every sentence out of the guys mouth starts 'one time in Iraq...'). One day he brought in two chunks of marble and dropped them on my desk. He said they were peices of tile from one of Saddams palaces. So long Saddam, some jackass in Kansas has part of one of your homes that you built with the blood of your people. |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Give him life in prison, where he can get first class meals, and all of the other luxuries of Prison? |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Quote: I think it would have been better to judge him to a life time in prison.
That's okay, we'll get him when he reincarnates. There's an awful lot of people who love a good steak --> |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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In some ways life in prison is more cruel than hanging to someone who is obviously guilty. I suppose it depends on the individual, but give me a life without Internet? No thanks, I'll gladly take the rope. With Hussein, I see it more about closure. It's not like you can come up with a punishment appropriate for a mass murderer. That, and it's a lot more practical to end his life than keep him alive and guard him for another 20 years just so he can die "naturally" after years of doing absolutely nothing. |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Who is feeling more secure now? -- |
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nonnus29
Member #2,606
August 2002
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Watch it Rey, or YOU'LL be next..... Is that a wmd in your closet?
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Well there are lots of Kurds who feel that they would have gotten more closure if all the trails would have ended so that the criminal acts Saddam did to them would have gone through court. I'm sure there are also those who get closure for him being dead as well. If killing him was the only possible sentence I still think they could have waited some more and got him trailed for more of the evil things he did. About the punishment. Now he got what he wanted and became a martyr to some people. For a guy like Saddam "first class meals" and "luxuries of Prison" can't seem that good. Life in prison was a life shame for him. After all he was a dictator so there's a pretty sharp contrast in living quality. Letting him think about all that he had lost and what he has done with his life is a more harsh punishment than ending it. Lets hope that things will calm down i Iraq now. But I don't think so by judging from what the "experts" says in the media. |
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Rampage
Member #3,035
December 2002
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So, Bush got his revenge. I think Hussein deserved what he got, but it seems to me like he was hung to please Bush and not as a punishment for his crimes. -R |
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Mokkan
Member #4,355
February 2004
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About time. Quote: So, Bush got his revenge. I think Hussein deserved what he got, but it seems to me like he was hung to please Bush and not as a punishment for his crimes.
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Rampage
Member #3,035
December 2002
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Mokkan said:
What? -R |
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Archon
Member #4,195
January 2004
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Quote: Watch it Rey, or YOU'LL be next..... If the coalition goes to war in Argentina, then I might join the army in hopes of being shipped there! Also, what about criminals who continue committing crimes after going to prison? Seems like prison isn't always the answer. |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Quote: Also, what about criminals who continue committing crimes after going to prison? Seems like prison isn't always the answer. Prisons aren't harsh enough to deter criminals any more. I say inmates should be strapped to chairs and forced to watch Oprah, Dr Phil, and Rikki Lake non-stop for their entire sentence.
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Quote: Also, what about criminals who continue committing crimes after going to prison? Seems like prison isn't always the answer. Lets keep talking about the case this thread is about. And I don't think that Saddam could have kept committing crimes while he were in prison. You're not the sharpest knife in the kitchen are you? |
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Archon
Member #4,195
January 2004
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Quote: Prisons aren't harsh enough to deter criminals any more. I say inmates should be strapped to chairs and forced to watch Oprah, Dr Phil, and Rikki Lake non-stop for their entire sentence.
I hope your suggestion for Dr. Phil was merely to educate... and not to torture |
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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Quote: You're not the sharpest knife in the kitchen are you?
He meant those who got out of jail and then got caught committing another crime. I feel so odd on the hearing of his punishment. Like others have said, there really isn't a punishment fit for the crime. Anything seems like an insult to the victims. And me personally, I've never enjoyed the idea of the death sentence. Still, I suppose it was the only thing we could do.
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kentl
Member #2,905
November 2002
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Quote:
He meant those who got out of jail and then got caught committing another crime. I know. Quote: Still, I suppose it was the only thing we could do. Well it wasn't. And who are 'we'? At least waiting until some more of the vital trails were to end would have been better. It was the thing that was done though and it can't be changed. |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Life in prison would have been a worse fate than hanging. |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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Quote: Give him life in prison, where he can get first class meals, and all of the other luxuries of Prison?
Yes, we all know Prison is this luxury hotel just outside Marseille on the mediterranean coast. Quote: Also, what about criminals who continue committing crimes after going to prison? Like, commiting genocide? Honestly, how do you commit crimes if you're by yourself, in a cell, under 24 hour guard? Quote: Prisons aren't harsh enough to deter criminals any more. That very much depends on the crime. It will deter petty crimes, even at moderate sentences. It may not deter murderers or mass murderers, but neither will a death sentence (because such crimes are often not commited with any thought about what happens after). Anyway, I digress. I won't repeat my views on the death sentence, I'll limit myself to the case at hand. Am I wrong in thinking that there are still many other charges that are filed against him and for which he could (should?) have been tried? Sure, we can be practical about it and say he can only be killed once, but it does seem a bit silly, doesn't it? |
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Sporus
Member #3,815
August 2003
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Kent Larsson said: Well there are lots of Kurds who feel that they would have gotten more closure if all the trials would have ended so that the criminal acts Saddam did to them would have gone through court.
Unfortunately the Good Guys™ are pals with Turkey, whose administration isn't too fond of Kurds either.
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Wilson Saunders
Member #5,872
May 2005
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I think it was a good idea to off him. Back in the day terrorits took hostages and demanded the release of high profile prisoners as a "prisoner exchange". Having less high profile prisoners alive would make this harder. Of course it looks like terrorism has shifted away from hostage taking and more toward mass murder. So killing or not killing him may just be a non issue. ________________________________________________ |
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm said: The hanging itself was not broadcast. I say he is still alive. Committing the hanging under exclusion of the public is the best hint that he was actually not killed. As long as there is no proof that he is dead, he lives. --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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I wouldn't go for conspiracy theories like that. Personally I find it decent that they don't show the hanging, to the point that it would be wrong to do so. I wouldn't want to see it anyway. |
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Rick
Member #3,572
June 2003
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Quote: The trial itself is controversial and highly debated internationally; it isn't a clear-cut case that this was a fair trial. They executed him pretty much at the first opportunity. To me this feels very much like they wanted to get it over and done with before someone took too close a look at the proceedings. I'm not too comfortable with that. ?? So you think there was a chance HE didn't kill hundreds/thousands of his own innocent people? There is no such thing as a fair trial in this case. He did these crimes, everyone knows it, now he's paid for them. Case closed. This isn't a normal murder case from some Joe Blow off the street. He was a highest official of a country where his actions were always known. Even if he was somehow able to get a fair trial, the outcome would be the same. I don't think it ever was a question if he did these crimes. On a side note, I think I would prefer a death sentence if I was saddam over spending life in prison, watching my back ever second wondering when someone would eventually kill me. And they would. ======================================================== |
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