What are the priorities for the USA in Iraq, after Saddam is hanged?
824675
To have a constitutional government elected by the people. But the USA led force do not enjoy the trust of the people. Hence, anything done at the behest of the combined force will be lacking legitimacy. It is under UN supervision that an interim government be constituted to hold election for constituent body to frame the future constitution for Iraq. Then only normalcy will come back.
593642
There is good article on the BBC website that gives two views on the future in Iraq.\n\nIt summarises both sides of the argument.
822641
The appeals process is quite limited in Iraq and will be gone through rather quickly.  Then the verdict and sentence must be approved by the Iraqi president (and two others, I think).  The approval probably will not take long either.  While there is another Saddam trial going on, he could be executed before its completion.  My feeling is that all trials on all charges should be completed before he is executed so that there will be documentation of all his acts before he dies.
724584
A good question, since we don't have any clear objectives in being there now. First it was find the nuclear weapons and other WMDs, then it was to depose Saddam, then it was to spread democracy, then it was to wait until the Iraqi's adopted a constitution, then we were there to train the Iraq army and police to stand up for themselves (then we would stand down), now, we are in Iraq to finish what we started, whatever that was! Oh, also we're there so the guys who already died won't have died in vain. The ultimate justification for more to die! Republican logic can be extremely dangerous.
518011
Zero.\n\nThe democratically elected Iraqi government has requested that the U.S. stay to finish its job of making them strong enough to govern and defend their fledgling Republic.\n\nWe are there at the Iraqi's request.
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
654868
To get rid of Saddam. Ofcourse America also needs to takecare of its energy needs. Taking Saddam out of that area is the only way that US can guarantee the energy needs for the next 3-40 years.
286661
Saddam committed his alleged crimes within the boundaries of Iraq and should be subject to Iraqi justice if indeed he is found to be guilty.  I have believed all along that the Iraqi people are the ones that need to handle whatever is to be Saddam's fate.  \n\nIn view of the controversy surrounding the death of Slobodan Milosevic, I am a lot more comfortable that Saddam will receive actual justice and we will not have to worry about this kind of thing putting a cloud over the whole thing.
25167
When Iraq becomes Americanized...
362115
No! Saddam deserved everything he's getting!Osama will probably end up in a hole too and we'll em!
781106
Undoubtedly, you're going to receive a lot of emotion-packed answers to this question, so let me try to be as dispassionate as possible. I have to admit, I'm torn on the whole permissability of the death penalty; but in this instance I think it has to take place.\n\nThe Shiia and the Kurds require closure on Saddam's era; and so long as Saddam lives he's going to be a lightning rod for every discontented Sunni. Yes, there will be some initial unrest, but in the long-run, I honestly believe it's in the best interests of all three groups if Saddam is taken out of the picture. While he lives, I just don't see how these groups have even the slightest chance of making a go of even attempting to pull together something that looks like a nation.\n\nThere is such a thing as "raisons d'etat;" and for "reasons of state" I believe he has to go.
1079430
The U.S government still has the death penalty. If he is caught alive, a quick trial and then a gallows should be erected at the WTC site for a public execution. Not one with a trap door either, let him "dangle and strangle" while he looks upon the family and friends of those he murdered, play the video of the planes crashing into the WTC, that is  indelibly burned into our hearts and minds. Or if you don't want the death penalty, just put him in general population of any prison in America...\n\nHe deserves everything he gets for starting all of this, every death of every innocent civilian killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, every soldier from every country killed is due to him. He has a lot to answer for.\n\nOsama bin Hidin must pay.
1187778
Iraq must split up into three sectarian states --Kurdistan, a Shi'ite province of Iran, and a Sunni landlocked nation.\n\nNo one will die for the geographical "Iraq" as a whole, so the group will keep killing each other until they are separate geopolitical entities.\n\nThe United States should have realized this when then invated in 2003; the US should have invaded and partitioned.  They WERE warned but the warnings were dismissed.\n\nIraq as a united country defending itself does not exist and will not come into existance.
610684
You are talking of justice and fairness in UN when US is around.\nNo more kidding.\n\nBy the way the ratio of killings in Iraq is 100 Iraqis versus 1 American.\n\nAnd more scaring/dangerous fact is that it is acceptable to Iraqis and unacceptable to Americans.\n\nCan you imagine the outcome?
962033
655,000 dead Iraq, 3000 Americans dead, many, many more wounded and deformed for the rest of their lives on both sides. All for a war based on George Bush's lies. The American people ought to hold him accountable for his actions. Not to mention torture, secret prisons, not upholding the constitution, a paper that he swore to uphold when he was first appointed to office. He should be impeached and then turned over to the international court in the Hague for trial as  a war criminal. Do not forget that Cheney, and Rumsfield should go right along with him.
482830
Since we invaded isn't really a fair assessment.  The sanctions the US imposed on Iraq killed millions and then on top of that the wars we waged against them brought Iraq from the most industrialized, secular, progressive 9relative to others in the region) country in the region to be one of the most religously divided, ruined, starved, unstable and un democratic places on earth.  \nThe US is responsible for far more Iraqi deaths than Saddam that is certain.  \n\nPeople say what about the Kurds?  They tried to kill Saddam.  What about the people slaughtered by the US government at Waco remember that?  Governments protect themselves against angry citizens, and the attakcs Saddam carried out, in military/government terms were justified and far worse has been carried out by the US against its population.  \n\nSaddam loved Iraq and Iraqis (many who still do) liked Saddam's rule far more than this new puppet governemt who cannot bring law and order to Iraq.  They ALL hate the US and we were never met as liberators (with flowers) as our government told us we would, and we never will win the hearts and minds of Iraqis.  It is a lost cause.  \n\nIf the US doesn't pull out more Iraqis will die, we are killing 80% of all Iraqi deaths there.  So the US out as soon as possible is the best option for Iraqis.
944339
What would happen?  The civil war and mass killings would happen sooner instead of later, and the US and Iraqis being killed daily would not be.\n\nYou don't go into a country until you're invited, and the US wasn't.  Even *with* Saddam in charge, the Iraqis never wanted the US to invade.  \n\nIt's the same story in Iran: the democratic forces don't want the US to invade, they want the US to fluck off and stop harassing their country.  (It WAS the US, after all that overthrew the Iranian DEMOCRACY in 1953 to impose the Shah....)\n\n\n.