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Saddam executed; Your thoughts?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on December 30, 2006, 07:06:04 pm ---Wayne
It is fine that they hung those boys for having being lovers...it was the majority opinion and their own country...they can kill whoever they choose. It was just and moral!!
What difference should it make to us? *SHRUG*
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What do you suggest we do? Invade?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on December 30, 2006, 07:13:14 pm ---I am getting at...they (Nuremburg) waited until there was stability and the war was OVER before they started summarily executing people. I just do not understand this rush to execution...except in the light that the US leaders wanted it to be fast.
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So are you saying the Iraqi people didn't want quick justice?
--- Quote ---and Saddam DID rush people thru trials and execute them in a big rush...it is considered to be one of his crimes
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Um, how many of those people he rushed through trial and execution were mass murderers and psychopaths?
Again, you're comparing Joe in the Street to Saddam.
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on December 30, 2006, 06:44:06 pm ---The US stands proudly with with our colleagues Iran, China, and the Congo in the right of the state to execute teenagers.
Besides Iran, only China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and the United States are known to have put juvenile offenders to death in the past five years.
The U.S. executed nine juvenile offenders during this period; the other countries are each known to have put one juvenile offender to death.
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well MIGHT MAKES RIGHT!!
Lynne:
--- Quote from: shakestheground on December 30, 2006, 04:59:19 pm ---I think anytime some's death is put up in the media for examination, it is sickening thing. I am not in favor of the death penalty, so much so I have in my will that if I am murdered my killer is not to receive the death penalty. People like Sadam deserve to be locked away for the rest of their days, killing them only satisfies a blood lust we need to evolve away from.
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Truman - what an excellent idea. I will do the same at the first opportunity. I told my mom after 9/11 that had I been in those towers, I wouldn't want my murder to be avenged, just justice. It's a much better idea to have it in writing.
I don't consider myself particularly religious, but I do try to conduct myself with integrity. Being human, I obviously fail sometimes, but that's what being human is all about. Isn't it ironic that the 'eye for an eye' justice comes from the same holy book condemning homosexuality, endorsing the murder of the men of other tribes, appropriating their women and property, etc.? That was 2000+ years ago so I have no clue how long this evolution process is going to take. If you disregard all the crap, there's some good guidelines there like the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, and it seems straightforward to me. 'Thou shalt not kill.' isn't followed by a long list of exceptions, yanno?
Random fact about me - the day Timothy McVeigh was executed I ate mint chocolate chip ice cream (his last meal) and I haven't been able to touch it again since.
--- Quote from: Lucise on December 30, 2006, 05:40:49 pm ---Too many people have lost their lives already ... we need peace .. and fast.
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Amen.
Kd5000:
I view it as somewhat of a hollow victory for the United States govt. It's not like the Nuremberg Trials where the war is over and the execution of leading Nazis brings some sense of closure to the whole ordeal.
The United States has now had 2,998 soldiers killed in Iraq with no let-up. This is not the final chapter and I don't see a happy ending for Iraq.
I'm glad the man's life ended and he didn't escape into exile (Idi Amin) or die a natural death (Pinochet) and never face a tribunal in their country.
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