Who else thinks it would have been easier if we had done to Saddam what was done to his sons?
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.
142197
US should have never attacked iraq, it has just cost lots of money and no improvement, and also it has cost the live of more than 2000 americans, and 100,000 iraqis, they may have had difficult lives under saddam's regime but at least they were alive!
20673
If they've caught BinLaden they would have made sure to publicize their "victory" to everyone as was the case with Saddam Husseing. But surely they haven't and anyway the US was the one who got him in order to use him to fight Russia and then he turned around on them!!!!
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.
593004
We can't, the oil wouldn't be secure anymore.  Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia would have a free for all.  We created a mess that we won't stabilize for a VERY long time.  For all his evil, Saddam did manage to keep a lid on one of the biggest pressure cookers in the world.  Of course, mission accomplished for us, we showed him we could do a better job.\n\nAlienorgy, my heart is with you man.  I know they pump you up on a philosophy that your life depends on you believing.  Looking forward to seeing your story when you're done.  I was lucky I was there in the beginning when it was easy.
219027
Hell, NO!!!  Chicken crap democrats would have let Saddam kill another million or so people.  Just like before WW2.  If someone had the balls to attack Germany in the 1930's how many millions of people and how much property would have been spared.
117756
World peace from Iraq?  Are you serious?  If achieving world peace was that easy... well... it isn't.
397001
I think Saddam was a cruel pig, but the day to day life of the typical Iraqi was definitely better before the US got involved.\n\nWith Saddam, Iraqis had water and power, no suicide bombings, and no insurgency.\n\n----------------------------\nPS - Many people forget that it was the US that put Saddam in power to begin with in the 1960's. It was also the US that supported Saddam's use of WMD's when he was fighting against Iran. Brutal dictator? Definitely, but the blood is also on our hands.
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.
802864
the trial of Saddam was not done by Iraqis but by the stooges of the USA. every man who has brains know his trial was not transparent.
920052
I like your line of thinking but I don't know who your talking about.\nIf your talking about saddam... I'd like to see him suffer a little before his death.\nIf your talking about a child molester your death sentence will fit them justly.\nGruesome executions like that may act as a deterrent for criminals. Lord knows jail doesn't scare them any longer. The hardened criminals are fighting to get back behind bars in the U.S.
573347
umm...You must be really young, ignorant or both. Saddam killed hundreds of thousands. He USED weapons of mass destruction on the Kurdish people in northern Iraq...He used them in the war with Iran...He invaded Kuwait to steal their oil. He violated the U.N. resolutions regarding the cease fire after the first gulf war repeatedly. Saddam ran torture chambers. He murdered Iraqi Olympic athletes if they did not win a medal. He ruled his country as a ruthless blood thirsty dictator. Saddam actually had giant shredders...like wood chippers that he put his political opponents into alive. Saddam would have had Nuclear weapons if the Israeli Air Force had not destroyed their facility in the early 80s. Saddam Hussein was paying $25,000 cash to any palestinian family that would use one of their children as a Suicide Bomber to go Kill Israelis'. Saddam had met with leaders of Al Qaeda to plan future attacks on the USA and Israel. Saddam Hussein was embezzling money in the U.N. oil for food program to use as bribes to pay off the Russians and the French to change their votes at the U.N. Security council. Under Saddams rule, Women were not allowed to be educated. Under Saddams rule watching sattelite T.V. and getting on the internet was forbidden. All of this and more...and you have the audacity to place President Bush, who is trying the best he know how to protect America and spread freedom and democracy around the world, in the same league as Saddam Hussein? You and any others who think this way are so far out of touch with reality, so full of Hatred for President Bush, that you are incapable of rational thought or an unbiased opinion about what is really going on in the world. Unbelievable...
928964
Yes killing them all would be the quick answer.\nBUT.\nThe truth is.\nWe have to allow their children to do more then learn to hate us.\nMost of the older generations of Islamist in the Middle East have grown up learning only to hate anybody that is not like them.\nIts not just us they want to kill.Look at what is Happening in France,Germany, and the rest of the European world, they are being swallowed up by Islamist who have no desire but to rid this world of all but Islam.They state it daily, and raise their children to feel the same way.\nDont forget, the Middle Easterners have television, and the net ,But what they see is restricted to only what their Islamic leaders want them to see.\nA perfect example of what I am saying is with the Kurds, They became tired of the death and destruction, and started to build a free society, That is why Saddam was killing them by the thousands, their quest for freedom was a threat to the Islamic way. But after we freed them again they have begun to thrive as a democracy,They have electricity, schools, hospitals,Their women are treated as equals,and they are beginning to grow in peace. You dont hear anything about it, because it would Further support what Bush is trying to do in the rest of that forsaken land,\nThe answer lies in the children.\nP.S. Any body that has the ability to think independantly, and do their own research would realise that no matter what we did or didnt do in the past would not keep the Islamic freaks from trying to kill us, the real problem that we have in this country, is that they have learned how to use the "willing media", as well as a few Anti American politicians to fool the weak minded in this country. Hint Hint COLD STONE
221523
Bad leadership.  \n\nOur leaders believed they were doing a good thing by getting rid of Saddam so that you could rule yourselves.  But it seems that the people are not mature enough to do that yet.
875728
It is more of politics than justice.If innocent people killed is the criterion,Bush might have killed more people than Saddam.It is the personal grudge between Mr.Bush and Sddam.The judges were biased.No mass destruction weapons were found in Iraq.When the world commmnity wants abolishing of capital punishment,it was an unfotunate verdict.
303048
Actually, Saddam seized power all by himself, locking up and in some cases executing members of his own party in order to declare himself dictator.  The US did not do that; Saddam did, and the Iraqi people let him.  Get your facts straight.\n\nIraq before Saddam was already a bit of a basket-case.  The regional and sectarian splits that we see today were definitely around back then.  If Saddam had not seized power, somebody else might have.  The government was pretty corrupt, like most in that part of the world.  Iraq had joined other Arab states in attacking Israel, so it is likely that a Saddam-less Iraq would have continued in its hostility to Israel, possibly supporting terrorist groups like its neighbors Iran and Syria.  It is difficult to say how exactly things might have turned out, but there is no good reason to believe that it would be much different.
1172835
Yes and who ever thinks they will be the next Zarqai will end up like him, Uday, Qusay, or better yet like Saddam.  I really wish Zarqai had lived - just imagine the intel we could get from him.  Liberals will never face the truth.