If you were the soldier that found saddam,wouldnt you just shoot him to do your contry a fovour?
466462
u better believe i would id shoot him like 10 times in the head
480811
because he would know what he was sending our sons and daughters into. he would know how awful it is to see a friend die in front of you. he would even be able to plan the war according to strategic knowledge gained from experience. he would understand that no matter the justification for the war, it is a terrible experience for anyone to go through. he would have insight as to the nature of cruelty and injustice. he would realize that torture is abominable. if he was ever wounded, he would know how a bullet tearing through flesh feels. if he had firsthand knowledge of these things, he would be more careful about starting wars and signing the orders to send young people to die, become wounded, or to kill. this would also be important. if he knew what it was like to end another person's life, a person he has never met, to look a person in the face and shoot them, then he might consider this before sending a young person to perform such a serious task.
1130214
if they do that in their own country, they'll be shot.  maybe we sould follow suit?
925262
I think we should let him free!  Just drop him off in the northern Iraq area where all the Kurds are.  Make sure the families of all the people he gassed are there and give them weapons.  Then just drop off Saddam with nothing but the clothes on his back.  They would certainly take care of him.
793914
The answer above me is BS, the military found Saddam and never paid a penny..,.
576079
The troops should never have been there in the first place.\nI'm not saying I thought Saddam was a good man- he was a moron. \n\nBut let's look at another factor: who said these guerrilla soldiers are actually insurgents? The Iraqi military were trained for years by the US and the UK. The standard procedure if the UK were successfully invaded is for the auxiliary troops to begin assassinations and terror campaign against the invaders. The Iraqi's are doing just that and the insurgents are the foreigners going in to Iraq to help them.\n\nI don't remember hearing any Iraqi's saying they wanted they're country invaded. Do you?\n\nIt's the same old story of politicians sending troops to war while they sit back and get rich. Of course they don't send their own children off to war, just other peoples.
916961
Yes absolutely, he ordered hundreds of thousands of Kurds to be gassed to death. He was sadisitic and had two awful sons who would rape and torture at will. My only concern is that hanging Saddam will just inflame the situation in Iraq as it will make him a martyr and will annoy his followers
860783
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. It would take resources away from doing what's more important to him: putting more money in his pockets.\n\nBut then again, I'm sure the entire military would be pissed off enough to stage a coup, find the missing soldier, and then hitchhike back home to organize a rebellion which would lead to a massive civil war, so no, I don't think even Bush is stupid enough to do such a thing.
49341
O! c'mon guys! We are talking abt a human here .I dont have any sympathy with Saddam whatsoever. But he is a human being, or at least we should remember that we are. so let just say that he should be punished for his deeds but that's not for us to decide.
233930
Absolutely.Without question or hesitation.\nOf course,the proof would have to satisfy me.None of this,"because it's in the bible" krap,or "someone had to create all of this".\nSomething actually verifiable by me.\nThat would open up an entirely new set of problems though.\nYou would then have to keep me from killing him.Not an easy task.\nYou see,even if I knew he was there,I wouldn't agree with all of the things that he lets happen to innocent people.He supposedly is all powerful.How can he let a child be molested,or beaten,or burned beyond recognition.How can he let women be raped,or people be tortured?\nHow could he sit there and do nothing while someone wasted away and died a horrible death from some disease?\nPlease don't try to feed me any of your "he gave us free will",or "the devil is responsible" krap.\n\nBOTTOM LINE:\nIf you have the POWER to help,then you have the RESPONSIBILITY to help.\nI am going to Iraq soon.It will by no means be my first OP.I am going to join my brothers and put my life in danger to help these people get the freedom and human rights that we all deserve.I don't do it because I have to.I do it because I have the ability,and therefore,the responsibility to do it.\nI could not agree with your god's complacency.\nI would have alot more respect for him if he grabbed an M4 and SHOWED he cared by doing his part.\nI couldn't let anything terrible happen to MY children if I could stop it.\n\nOmnipotent and doesn't give a sh*t...
1160513
When you consider what he did to Nicolaus Berg, it would have been nice if an American soldier in uniform would have held up to Zarqawi's neck a rusty machete.  Not that the soldier should have used it, but rather scare him and remind him of the beast he was and the atrocities he committed.  Sending him into cardiac arrest in this manner would be fitting.
895468
You hunted w/him and lived??\n\nOoooohh....You must've had the body armor Bush is witholding from our troops......
936911
Personally I would agree, we're just giving the old fool precisely what he wants anyway (he does want death but by firing squad, not hanging).\n\nI would prefer that they sentence him to life in Abu Gharaib or permanent confinement in a spider hole, anything that will make him beg for a death that will never come.\n\nBut in the final analysis, we do not have that power. Only those judges or the Iraqi people can really decide what to do with him (and for the most part they want him dead).
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.
776312
sorry pal, but legally you're sitting on air. no soldier engaged in combat operations is guilty of murder so long as he is within the parameters of the operation, if and when he kills an entire family so he can rape a female, then he's guilty of murder. and only then
185178
Regardless of how he got in there, we have to stand behind the decision.  There might not have been all the reasons stated, but they did find enriched uranium there, and other signs of helping terrorism.  We ousted a dictator by the majority of Iraq's request.  Else we wouldn't have gone in.\nSaddam should be dead already.  But he is a strong man, and it wouldn't surprise me much if somehow he got free, after all we have done.  \n\nThe military should have just shot him.  He is a mentally ill person with a great deal of power, and all of it is focussed on ruining western civilization as we know it.  If you don't believe that, then I'm not sure what I could say to convince you
709522
He should go to Iraq and serve for just one day or just one hour in a hot zone and maybe he would realize what kind of insanity he and Bush have caused.  Maybe he could search for WMDs and Osama while he is there.  That is assuming that he can remember that was the original reason we are over there.