Sadam Hussain...

[Method]

Now im not normally one for politics and that, but i saw this story on the news last night about his execution...

I dont know how to feel about this... I mean this person has nothing to do with me on personal level, obviously. I dissagree completely with the whole iraq situation yada yada yada, but that kind of has nothing to do with this court case.

I'd never realy paid much attention to this guy before Iraq came about, i mean i heard his name etc on the news a bit, but i wasnt even born when he carried out these attacks on his own people.

I blame him personally for us having to go to war in Iraq, not Bush or Blair, because if Hussain wasnt there then there wouldnt be a need for the war etc. So for that reason alone i believe he is solely to blame...

But i heard that he is going to be exectued. Ok i thought, that makes sense i suppose in this day and age, and expected some kind of electric chair etc... But then i read on the BBC that he is being sent to the gallows? Now it could just be me, but isnt that a bit old for us now? I know its iraq etc, and it isnt the most advanced country in the world, but surely hanging someone is a bit 16th century?

I dont realy know what to think about the whole mess, i feel kind of releived that he is going to finally come to an end, but then at the same time, i feel a kind of emptyness, knowing that it is all going to be over for him... Knowing that he wont have any worries and nothing he has done will affect him any more - its almost like a releif for him? Where as the innocent families of those that have died because of him will have to live the rest of their lives in pain and misery, without the loved one(s) they spent their life raising...

I was hoping that typing all this would help me come to some kind of decision, or at least clear things up in my own head - but it hasnt

What do any of you lot think? Or do you even care? Maybe someone elses prespective could help clear a few things up for me... I mean i dont pretend to understand everything that is going on with this whole mess. Like i said earlier, i wasnt even born when the "incident" he is on trial for was carried out, so im sure certain aspects are lost on me...

Anyway, sorry for the pointless drivvel.
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[Itchy]

[Annabella]

I think it is very difficult for those of us not directly related with the situation to decide what the outcome of his trial should be. I feel that hanging the man is somehow wrong, and yet I try to tell myself that it isn't my decision to make - it is that of his country's and their new system.

The war was intended to help the people of Iraq to become more independent and self-ruling. They have this now, and are using it to punish their former leader.
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[Keir]

why not shoot him? Surely thats the quickest?
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[bazza]

Stick him in an NHS hospital with a small untreated scratch on his hand. MRSA should do him in a few days...
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[SimonB]

I think he is being hung because the last Nazis were treated in the same way as they were war criminals. They say that a solder should be shot not hung as it is deemed more honorable.

So it will probably piss Saddam off by being hung rather than shot. Well being killed would piss anyone off!

Although I am probably talking bollocks here.
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[TheShaggyDA]

They could always just stick him back in the hole they found him in, and seal it. With maybe Bush and Blair in there with him
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[Silver]

Regardless of what he deserves, I do have the sneaking suspicion that killing him will serve more harm than good. Turn him into a martyr for his supporters in the middle east and give them another reason to fight against us.

Personally I'd stick him in a hole and let the world forget about him.

[h00dwink]

whilst i do agree killing him will cause a lot of unrest, it will make an example, not a martyr of him.
regardless of his age, what he has done through out his life warrents this penalty against him.
i imagine it's easy to sit on the fence and proclaim he shouldn't be put to death when what he did had no real effect on you. but imagine how it was for all the people that because of his decisions were killed/tortured.
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[colin1]

ok some of his methods of maintaining control in his country were a bit extreme, but at least he maintained control, which is more than the american forces, british forces and puppet government have managed.

[Walloper]

Methods of Execution are a bit fascinating for the more morbid of our species.

Hanging can be quick or slow, as can chemical, gassing and electrocution.
I like beheading. Chopping off the head must be about the quickest. But surely you must get a look at yourself from a different perspective? Kind of like an Super-Saver 'out of body experience' thingy. Unless shock puts your lights out instantly.

I saw something on See-Enn-Enn last week about how the Iraqis have been disposing of naughty buggers lately by hanging.
In one case a guy, found guilty of murder, was hanged in the prison. The rope snapped so he was promptly (35 mins. later) strung up for another go. (I think the 2nd ride is free.)

Capital Punishment is ultimately an orderly exhibition of the Rage of Mankind (Kind?). Vengeance and Hate rolled into one.
Some folk feel better to know the baddie died.

Incarceration is very expensive and open to abuse when thoughtless do-gooders cry out to give condemned men rights.

Hang Saddam.

So, the Brits and the Septics put him there. He should have kept his nose clean then.

I am fed up looking at the prick.

Sooner the better, then we can quickly forget him.
The best punishment will be: Insignificance.

It seems as though Iraq has been thrown back to the middle ages when a neighbour can willfully slaughter the family next door and feel good about it.
We do not all understand middle east emotions. Hanging What's his name will not be any more exiting than the troops liberating Bagdad from the Bath party he led.
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