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Saddam executed; Your thoughts?
delalluvia:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam
Kelda:
I was going to write - the sooner they do it the better (as if they had left it any longer there could have been more bloodshed via his supporters 'getting their own back')...... but after a brief scan of the story, it seems since I haven't caught the news today I have missed that they have already done it.
Lets hope everyone - Iraqi's, American's, Iranian's, Europeans, - can move on today and make 2007 one where troops can be brought home and we can try to move forwards and see a more peaceful world in 2007.
Big ask, it might be, but we can wish.
Lumière:
I think that he should have been tried for the other crimes against humanity before he was hastily executed, such as the genocide of thousands of Kurds by his regime.
I don't think that his death will bring peace, Saddam is only one man .. the insurgency continues, the car bombs, the suicide attacks will surely continue.
Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, over 600,000 Iraqis and over 2000 US troops have been killed. Not to mention the casualties from other allies supporting the war. When will it end? The time for peace is now, how long before it comes? God only knows..
We can all hope for a peaceful 2007!
Jeff Wrangler:
I'll say this much, and only this much: They sure don't fool around over there. Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the situation, in the U.S. he'd still be sitting in a jail cell 20 years from now, more likely to die of old age than from his sentence being enforced.
Lynne:
That's a good point, Milli, that there were plenty more crimes he needed to face at trial before a hasty sentence was carried out. Not that the trial was remotely just - what kind of due process can it be when defense attorneys are murdered with impunity and they're quickly replaced and the show just goes on?
But, I am 100% against the death penalty. Saddam was evil, no doubt, but life in maximum security would have suited me fine as just punishment.
IMO, killing is wrong except when your own life is in imminent danger. And state-sponsored killing is worse - it's simply revenge dressed up as justice.
We have now lost more American soldiers lives in Iraq than were killed on 9/11 and that does not include the hundreds of thousands of civilians, Iraqi soldiers, Allied forces, contractors working to rebuild, and attorneys. Have we captured Bin Laden? No. Bush's war on terror is one big-a$$ diversion tactic from the real issues.
And another casualty in this war is the US itself. We've lost any credibility we ever had with most of the world. You got room there in Canada for me, Milli?
Sorry..rant over.
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