Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians,but he is now on trial for killing 140 persons in Dujail.Why!?
139414
It's the easiest crime they have to prove.
703052
Ummm... if you've been watching the news he has all ready been prosecuted. He is going to be hung. \n\nShould he be prosecuted for killing 148 people who supposedly tried to assasinate him? I think it depends if the people actually tried to assasinate him.\n\nAnd that is just one of the crimes he has commited. \n\nHow ignorant of people to blame Bush for everything! If you haven't done you're research don't make generalizing comments. Saddam is being judged by an Iraqi Court, not an American one.
1089390
Ya! When Saddam was murdering Iraqis by the thousands and putting them in mass graves, that was none of our business!  And when he used chemical and biological weapons on his own people, we should just continue to let it happen! And when his sons put live people into wood chippers feet first so they can watch themselves die, that's not nearly as bad as giving them a chance to vote and be free. And when they had state rapists to rape and torture people and murder four year olds of people who dared to speak out against Saddam, that's way better than an elected government!  Ya! Shame on us. \n\nCooldude, You are a f'n ideological idiot!
278599
OMG are you serious!!!! Saddam killed people of his own country if they blinked wrong. i am really praying for you cause you are definetly not the sharpest tool in the shed and its people like you who should move to canada and never come back saddam was an evil man and killed innocent people just to see how many ways he could!!!!I wish people like you would open thier eyes and see wat is real.
459512
The trial is the way to go. I know it is a pain to watch this thing drag out. We've got to give the Iraqi people a chance to develop their democracy. This is a great exercise in controlling impulses to just kill someone with out a trial. The people of Iraq need this to know that if the worst among has been treated fairly then if they go to court they will also be treated fairly.\n\nIt sure would have been great to kill him in the short run, but in the long term success of Iraq as a free nation this is the way it has to happen.
1006641
I would hate to even think about it. But revenge is the answer. Isn't that the first reason Afghanistan, then Iraq were invaded to revenge 9/11. It's human nature, only there has been no concrete proof approved by the UN to prove they were responsible - only media coverage that had the effect of mass brain washing and that has confessed that Iraq had nothing to with 9/11 or had WMD.\n\nIraqi and other people are being punished and labeled as terrorists simply because they are defending their country; a country that was invaded for no reason, lately being bringing them democracy! Democracy on the other hand would not accept that people are jailed, sent off to be tortured for years without a trial then maybe finally released without being convicted of anything.\n\nThese people (Iraqis etc.) have nothing to defend themselves with against heavy military weapons, napalm bombs bombarding on them and their loved ones, destroying their homes and the infrastructure of their country and yet they fight back, they are terrorists!\n\nOther nations, can shoot children and women on the beach because they have a "right to defend themselves" while other nations are being fought on their own soil by invaders and they do not have this same right. I cannot understand the discrimination and double standards applied.
695420
what an unfair world! i support saddam's sentence but you ar so right, if his iraqis supporters are punished so should his US supporters who helped hide his crimes until they parted ways!
106906
It probably happens more often, but a lot less often than if the Iraqi Defense Force was there.  For all the issues that has been brought up, Saddam already have everyone beat when he was the dictator.  He killed thousands that opposed him.
924698
They have not released nearly enough of the information about what goes on there to make a reasonable assessment of either side's case.\n\nThe court system is not similar to the US's system.  The lawyers and judges are primarily French-schooled and Iraqi law is modeled after France's system.  They do not have the same burden of proof to meet hat the US has.\n\nAnd capital punishment is revenge.  That is the only purpose behind it, capital punishment does not serve as a deterrent, and the victim is not likely to learn anything from it.  Capital punishment is pure revenge, plain and simple.  So by executing Saddam revenge would be the only reason and only result.
1034171
He should execute.\nBut before that I prefer to listening/watching his advocacy about a lot of other subjects including, Iran-Iraq war, His supporters during the war, Chemical weapons that used during the war against Iranian and Iraqis, Slaughter innocent people during his regime, etc.\nThis court is wasting time just for one of his slaughters and I'm worrying about other crimes. It seems they don't want to plead them in the court.
770013
Listen you brain-dead, left-wing fruitcake:\n\nHe murdered 1,000,000 people in the wars HE started! He murdered ANOTHER 1,000,000 people in his death camps, secret police prisons, assasination squads, gas attacks of HIS OWN people, 100,000 Shi'ites buried alive, 50,000 little children tortured to death to punish their parents!\n\nIt is estimated by the UN and others that as many 2-3,000,000 children died as a direct result of him taking ALL food and medical imports and SELLING them for weapons!\n\nGeorge Bush went to war against this monster, removed him from power and YOU think that BUSH is the villain here?\n\n(and I also suppose that you are one of those militant atheist-materialists who also believe that Mother Theresa was a terrible monster because she committed the unforgivable crime of "giving hope to the hopeless!")
1141261
We havent heard much because nothing much is happening.  Saddam has no real defense, and he's still yelling about the court not having the autority to try him,  yada yada.  \n\nI hope deh fry da sucka
1088005
Good question! Twin Towers (Saddam WAS linked to these MURDERS of innocent people when they discovered Al Quida training camps in Iraq near the Iranian borders); how many violations of the UN resolutions? So many I can't remember, but more then 12 that I know of; reports of WMD's, which whether you believe it or not, that had to be answered by force since the UN is a gutless piece of work, so corrupt that the French and Russians were making millions off the humane efforts of the United States who nearly funded all the monies for the "Food Program". Of course these funds were never used by Saddam to feed his people, he was to busy killling them by the hundreds of thousands while French politicians were getting millions. Hello, anyone home yet! Crimes of humanity not unlike Hitler. Remember him..and you know what, Hitler never  bombed the US but we still took him out. Does anyone ever ask WHY? Oh ya, the Palestinians and the President of Iran and Saddam. Hitler was their HERO...but he was an infidel too...go figure. Guess it comes down to madness. Even Saddam's generals thought he had WMD's because that is what Saddam wanted everyone to believe. Well, he got his wish...we believed him. I Wish he had died in that hole but my wish didnt come true.Women raped, children killed, wifes ravaged in front of their families for the pleasures of sons of Saddam, mass burials of innocent Iraqis who did not like their President (what a joke, president); using WMD to kill 300,000 Kurds; These are some of the reasons we are in IRAQ and if the damn politicians would let the military act like the military then this war would be over. If we entered WWII like this, we would be speaking German or Japanese. Truman was right, the US should never enter a war without using all it's might and power to defeat the enermy in a short, unrelenting manner and then return home. Unfortunately we have a bunch of weak politicians in office and a nation of sheep that follow their good shepards right into the gates of hell. Wake up America, the world is not what it used to be and Muslims want us all dead. Got it now.
257079
It was not for want of trying that Bush and Blair failed to find a real reason.   To attack Iraq will go down in history as the dumbest move ever.   Sorry - the second dumbest : the first was to take Saddam alive AND PUT HIM ON TRIAL!!   This farcical process matches the one against Slobodan Milosovich at the Hague and is going the same way, with a fairly good- and straight-looking defendant outshining his prosecutors in every way, just as Milosovich did at the Hague, and Goring and Streicher did at Nuremberg (another kangaroo court).
601640
Gee....could it have been Saddam Hussein?  He did kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and openly threaten both the United States and Israel.  How can you blame George Bush for starting the war?  I mean, can you blame the cop for arresting a murderer?  Nope, you blame the murderer!
757967
Huge mistake is correct.  What could possibly be wise about the whole exercise?  Wise to put the shiites in power thus strengthening Iran?  Wise to kill 150,000 Iraqis?  Wise to put our soldiers in the middle of a civil war?  Is it wise to execute Saddam thus heightening the sectarian violence?  Nothing about it is wise.
791517
And I guess you interpreted that as Middle east style execution!!! In my mind the generalization you show in your question proves that you can be unfair to other people. A rapist deserves to be executed in the worst style, but that does not mean that all Middle Eastern people and countries apply the same method.\nAre you trying to prove how savage Middle Eastern people are? well, generalizing the brutality of one incident on all members of a group is not really a convincing way.\nAnd although I do not get what Saddam has to do with the above incident since he was jailed while this incident happened and he could not have possibly ordered it. I believe he deserves to die for killing so many people unfairly, but I also believe there should be a stop to the Iraqi and American killing out there... too many lives lost, and most of them guiltless.