Execute Saddam...?

Post-9/11 Era Forum

He's captured. Now, he will face a trial. Should the verdict be death? I say yes.

-HECK!

What ever the Iraqis feel is justified, is fine with me. He should not be tried by any other government body.

He really doesn't deserve to live, although I agree that Iraq should handle his punishment. If the US does it, I'm sure this will add fuel to the already angry Arabs all over the world.

But should they fail to do the right thing, then I think the UN first should step in and make sure. But I believe they will execute him. Far more humane might I add than he's executed his countrymen.

Saddam should have red targets tattooed all over his body, and he should be dropped in the middle of a large fenced in feild somewhere in Iraq where the Iraqi's can have some aiming practice.

And Bin Laden -- when we get you -- you should be dropped in the middle of time square.

The Iraqi's should be the governing people that handle this, and decide what punishment this sick excuse of a human scum deserves. Personally, he deserves death, but nothing quick. He's a sick man, who killed thousands!!! Let those families that suffered under him make the choice.

Yes... and they've been known to decapitate the person and roll the head through the town, and the people will "play soccer" so to speak.

Even though I am opposed to death penalty for many reasons, I won't cry over Saddam if that is the sentence the Iraqis have in store for him. He deserves it as many times he has killed people.

Tolerance, human rights or even animal rights must not be respected to treat monsters.
Therefore, however inhumane this may sound--and that's why nobody will take this decision-- I think he should be kept alive and systematically tortured by the survivors of his victims for the rest of his life.

Alive, Saddam is a danger: some guys might take hostages and negotiate his release. But dead, he might become a martyr.

The best way is to let Iraqis judge.

How about we put him in a glass box and pump it full of chemical and biological weapons?! - I mean, the country's full of the stuff aint it? It must be - cos ol' Dubya said it was.

Heck!, we know they're there! - and how does we know? We knows cos The USA sold em to him! Yee-hah, we gonna have us a dictator lynchin, except instead of a rope or 'lectric chair or a ***** little lethal 'jection, we gonna nerve gas that bastard, and we gonna use good ol' USA-built lethal nerve gas to do it.

Goddam makes you PROUD to be 'merican, a country that can make that kind of high-tech lethal killing weaponry that can get in a man's immune system and kill that bastard from da inside. That's some heavy-duty shee-hite man!

However, if the ***** UN or left-wing liberal mo-fo's kick up a stink, why we could do it the humane way, and ship one of Dubya's electric chairs over, the ones he's used a hundred-odd of HIS fellow Americans.

Hang on - does they now do it by lethal injection in Texas? Whatever we do - let's kill the bastard. Cos if we don't ... then how we gonna be able to take that high moral ground, and say, yeah, we's killin' Saddam but we doin' it cos he killed a lotta people - he's a bad man.

Do we care we sold him the weapons? No sah.

Does we care we kill people in dis country too? No siree bob. We is right, God is on OUR side and that aint nothin like no how what them Islamics who think God is on THEIR side - those fools is mistaken, boy, we are the ones who are right, we are ALLOWED to kill people, we made the damn weapons, we sold him to damn Saddam and we gonna use 'em how we see fit.

God bless America and god bless those weapons we made and sold to Saddam.

Maybe we should just give him to Australia and they can feed him for the rest of his life.
I hear it's a great place to send criminals.

keremiko LOL ok if you had to print it to in order to read it - take your time I am not rushing you.

I cut it down to 22KB btw. Let's see how much fantasy have you got

As my grandfather would say.... they ought to get Saddam, hang him by his balls, shove gravel up his a*ss... and keep him there until his nut bag pops. Of course, he was speaking Hitler at the time if they had caught him alive.


--JV

Well, a couple of things. I'm not sure if killing Saddam wouldn't be better for him. Imagine him in some jail cell for the rest of his life...

But the idea isn't to make him suffer. Its not about him. Luckily I've never been traumatized to such an extent as having my family killed, or been tortured, etc., as Saddam caused. But maybe the victims want to put it behind them and move on. Its not such a bad thing. If it eases a bit of their pain knowing that Saddam isn't in a comfy cell getting 3 squares after their lives have been ruined, maybe they should get it.

In general, I would not support death penalty for straight deterence or revenge purposes. For me it comes down to nuts and bolts resources. Why spend 100K/year to keep some hideous murderer/rapist alive when that money could be spent on better things? That person made the wrong choices. Too bad for them...

Charles,

I view the end of your last comment as typically american - I mean as a pragmatic one. I think that we have to view such things from another point of view (you could label it as "typically European" all the same). I believe we, human beings, share the same characteristics with our ancestors thousands of years ago. Intrinsically not worst, but not better. What makes a difference is that we have become, because of our civilizations, technology, culture, ..., by ourselves, to sum it up, our own factor of evolution.
Therefore, the choice is in our hands regarding death penalty concerns. Should we keep on seeking for revenge - that's what society does when someone is striken by this ultimate punishment - or acknowledge that the murderer in front of us have the same genetic material that us...? Death penalty is a sly torture - on cover of humanity, it is labeled as soft killing respectuous of the human person, but it remains of unmoral crualty just like it was 2000 years ago. Killing anyone is not worthy of a so-called civilized society. Period.

JY,
You could say the same for terrorism and any kind of serial killer. The point is, is that it is unacceptable behavior in today's society. Unfortunately we can't change the genetic makeup of mankind but we can persuade otherwise. That persuasion comes in many forms, ideally through education. But education without recognition of consequences doesn't work. In many parts of the world including the U.S., criminals have more rights than the victims.
To simply martyr the individual or allow him his fame and continuing education while in detention doesn't deter, it only shows then they can do what ever they want and get away with murder.
While I do agree with education to prevent violence and drug abuse, there still has to be consequences for their actions. To kill is the ultimate crime and punishment should not be equal to the criminal who has embezzled millions from his company or the person who killed through non-premeditated behavior like drunken driving.
If you systematically plan to take an individuals life without regards to human life or consequences, what good are you to humanity. Religion should not be part of this reasoning although most law is based on morality through religious history.
A complete disregard for human life should not be condoned by coddling the criminal.