Saddam Dies

[Edort4]

As I see it if he had not right to kill anyone, anyone had the right to kill him. I dont believe in hell so for me they just released him from a lot of pain he should have suffered in prison. Anyway about the 90% of the world primer ministers, presidents, war ciefs have done the same thing (some even worse) and I wont live to see them pay for it so talking about justice just makes me feel sad.

It was their decision, imo they chose the wrong one.

[Stoopider]

Justice. We've just gotten rid of one less monster in the world. He has done great injustice to Iraq and his neighbours like Kuwait.

The Sadam Loyalist right now would be fighting a lost cause. But like Saddam said, probably jokingly before he died, "Muqtada Al Sadr". I think we've just traded in one monster for another.

At least we won't hear of a story of "Saddam escapes from jail".That would be even more embarrassing.

[Assassin]

His sentence was definately a just one. In accordance to islamic law, the penalty for all his crimes would've been death as well so no one can say this was unjust. However, the method and time of death dont sit too well with me.

First, his execution was carried out during the Hajj pilgrimage, and if im not mistaken on the day of Eid which is an affront to muslims. I dont know why the court/judge or whoever was incharge of the trials chose this date, but it definately wasn't a coincidence. The date could have easily been moved forward or back a few days.

Secondly, why was he hanged. Im not familiar with the procedures of other "civilized" countries, but in the states aren't death row inmates given a lethal injection (i dont think they even use the chair anymore, but i could be wrong)? With all the fuss about human rights violations during his regime and stuff, they still decide to hang him which i find ironic.

Some intresting tidbits: i heard on the news that he was the first dictator/political leader to be hung since like ww2 or some such. Im no history buff, but i can't recall any war criminals getting the noose since nuremberg.

[Carnage]

I would definatly say justice, but I was hoping he would get sent to prison to suffer more though......or maybe have all the families that were victim to his cruelty beat him slowly to death? I think the only regret here is that the death wasn't painful enough . But also, shouldn't certain U.S. officials be punished as well by the standards that we punished Sadam? Its not like we didn't do horrible things...We nuked Japan twice and used Agent Orange in the Vietnam war which affected many lives and still does today.....

I guess you can say we were justified in doing so because it was in wartime, but still....We hurt many innocent people we didnt have to (Vietnam). Also, We used the nukes just to save our soldiers lives, so in that we were pretty much saying our soldiers are worth more than innocent japanese lives.

What I'm trying to say is, perhaps our government doesn't have the right to kill Sadam acting as a world police especially when we havent been so rightous in the past.I definatly don't see the U.S. as the good guys, especially since we were the ones who gave him so many weapons. Im not so sure it was worth it to go into Iraq just to kill one man......But I am happy that Sadam is dead, he definatly deserved it

[Spiegel]

Justice, For my limited knowledge that is the only true end for a man of his past actions.

[Yukimura]

I'm in the don't care category, whether he's dead or not has little bearing on my life, but since I believe the world is over populated I'm glad there's one less person wasting resources.

From a moral standpoint, he's obviously not the only person to do what he did and the bulk of those like him will probably go unpunished but since there is no shining beacon of truth and righteousness in the world that can pass judgement on all the tyrannical despots we'll just have to make due with the US government.

And Carnage the US didn't execute him, a bunch of Iraqi's with funny necklaces decided to execute him. We just went in and took the guns away from most of the people who would have killed the necklace wearing people before they could pass judgement on him.

[Bucket]

I've heard it's a good thing.
Supposedly there's footage floating out there on the interwebs, but I can't be bothered.

[Ryllharu]

I wouldn't call it justice. He got hanged after a single trial, and there were plans to have several more for the various war crimes he committed. Granted, people want justice swiftly done rather than 10 trials that all end with the same result and last a total of 10 years.

I would have preferred he go to the gallows (or whatever various methods they might employ) after receiving a dozen or so consecutive death sentences. But people don't want to see justice carried out 10 years from now, they always want justice right now. There really wasn't any way out of it, but without due process of having each trial, which he rightly deserved and should have stood trial for, is it really justice?

Well, in the end, different countries, different concepts of law.

[Death13a]

They sould have had buried him alive then hanging him.