I'm no great friend of Saddam Hussein, but I oppose capital punishment under all circumstances. It serves to make killing more socially acceptable.
When THREE of the defendant's lawyers are killed during the trial you've got a mob masquerading as a justice system.
This is not justice or democracy. It is just more killing for revenge. With my current understanding of the facts, I believe it was wrong for the US to hand Saddam over to be killed. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq on false pretenses.
George Bush thinks he has good reason to send his soldiers to Iraq to kill and be killed. Saddam Hussein thought the same thing. They seem like peas in a pod. One difference is what Saddam was convicted for happened 24 years ago, but Bush is doing it now, and accelerating even after the American people have told him to stop.
I mean, we went into another country on false pretenses and killed the leader's children. Is that the kind of model we want to be for the world? How would we feel if the tables were turned and we were the weaker country being invaded, having 6 hours a day of water and electricity for YEARS on end, hundreds of thousands of people killed?
In my opinion we need to do everything we can to make amends for what we have done. Handing over a leader of one faction for execution by another faction is a major step in the wrong direction.
