Should Saddam Hussien Be Hung????
827902
yes......... it has little to do with us, believe it or not...\n\nhe was found guilty in an Iraqi court by Iraqi people and the law in Iraq is the death penalty for these sort of crimes.... its was his country, his rules... if he was tried in the UK, there is no way he could have had the death penalty
789630
Graig C, I don't believe that Saddam is going to be executed. His next trials will drag on for 2 more years until next president will forgive him. Bush only hyped Saddam's execution before the election for political purposes. Bush can't be charged for mass murdering innocent people and thousands of our troops because of the patriotic act he signed. That was indeed shrewed of the neoconservatives. Yes, Saddam was a bad dictator and perhaps deserves to be killed, but he was not the worst dictator. Why is Bush picking on Saddam? USA built him up and made him bad. Rumsfeldt dealt with Saddam and supported him in the past. USA saved Saddam's butt in the past from many assassinations designed by his Shiites rebels. They gave him all the weapons and chemicals to defend himself from those Shiites rebels. Now because Saddam refused to cooperate with the USA like Qaddafi did and because we need Saddam's oil, so he is no good? What about Sudan's President Al-Bashir, who is killing innocent people left and right in Darfur? What about Libya's president, Qaddafi the horrible dictator? What about Egypt's president, Mr. Mubarak, the selfish bad dictator? What about Syria's President, Mr. Al-Assad, who is killing and jailing his opponents every day? What about Saudi Arabia King and his Sheiks, who hate Christians and oppressing outsiders (not Saudis)? Should we invade their countries and execute those dictators as well? C'mon Republicans, Is this logical? It is fine if you want to bully people around and control the oil resources in the world, but this is not the way to do it. Brutal Military Action as we are experiencing, destroying other countries and killing innocent civilians does not match our Great American Values and Morals. I am really ashamed of our president Bush and his bad ethics. God Bless the USA and our troops forever.
221023
NO I AGREE WITH THE ASKER, WE SHOULD LET HIM BE FREE.\nAMONG ALL HIS VICTIMS, FAMILIES, UNARMED AND UNPROTECTED AS WERE HIS VICTIMS. YES FREE THE IRAQI 1, AND WE WILL SEE HOW LONG HE LASTS.
931445
Yes, he should.\nBut it would have been better if he had pulled a Hitler and killed himself so no one would have to execute him.\n\nAs for Michael K's remarks, they predicted the same thing before Hussein was found guilty, and they were wrong.
703315
Why not, if that's what the local laws provide. However, I think he'd suffer more being confined to a 7 x 7 room with no visitors the rest of his life (probably 10 or 20 years) This guy thrived on power all his life. Reducing him to an impotent nobody for years and years would be the best punishment.
831760
NO IT IS NOT RIGHT TO HANG THE KING OF ANY COUNTRY.  THEY BOTH ARE RIGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRIES
841330
I think a hanging is enough. I wonder what he's thinking too. Do you think he's scared of death after all the deaths he order for all those people? Do you think a man who sentence hundreds of thousands of people to die by poisonous gas in their own towns deserves an easy death such as hanging? victims of the gallows die instantly 99% of the time. The peopel he killed died after hours of vomitting up their insides, foaming at the mouth, and finally violent convulsions and intense pain.\n\nI guess it's a tad bit ironic that a man who cause so much death and probably killed a few himself would be afraid to die. Maybe he thinks he is better in some way than all those people who died. Maybe he feels he deserves life more than those people do. What causes that?
171199
Absolutely. And then we should throw him in jail for all the people he's killed...both in iraq and here in the states (Katrina)
996212
Yes he should be held accountable, but no he won't be held accountable.  The reasons are complex and more than can be reasonably written here.  Its sad though, isn't it?  Such a waste of life on a conflict that began with a shootout between the wrong combatants, then escalated to a point where neither could separate and re-think the wisdom of it all.  Too many in our government are now in denial and the body count continues to climb.
872986
First, I am not pro-death penalty.  I believe that removing Hussien from power was the right thing to do, even if the impetus for removing him was wrong.  \n\nSecond, we are not going to "let" the execution of Hussien happen.  The decision will be made and carried out by the Iraqi government.  The trial and sentancing is not the product of any US involvement.  This is an Iraqi matter and the Iraqis will determine the final outcome.\n\nAn execution carried out by the current Iraqi government will solidify it as the legitimate governing body.  As long as Saddam is around, there will always be the question as to whether he will rise to power once again.  Machivelli argues that one must eliminate the old government in order to insure the security of the future government.  I believe that as long as Saddam lives, there will be continued sectarian violence.  Once he is executed, I believe that the nation will turn from Sunni/Shiite/Kurdish to Iraqis.\n\nBut then again, I could be wrong.
986590
To be honest I think its a Catch 22 situation.  You let him live and one group of people will be annoyed and rebel, you kill him and a different bunch of people are annoyed and rebel.  So no matter what happens there is going to be violence and terrorism in my opinion.  So what should be done?  Who knows, Saddam has been tried and found guilty of mass murder, he should be punished and in the eyes of Iraqi law that means death by hanging.  All we can do is obey the law.
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.
794974
Hanging is too good for this guy! What they really ought to to do is hang him by his neck and let him drop onto an electric chair. While they are running about a half million volts of juice through his butt, they should inject him with industrial strength poison. Then, just for good measure, why not shoot him a couple of times? After all that, then they should really go to work on him!\n\nHell yes, put it on TV. Make it a pay per view and donate all the money to his victims families! Or give some to the families of US troops that have died in Iraq.
834884
Well...I would like to say definitely YES. But then again, as for the public policy (in which here I refer to the interest of the whole citizens of the world) I must say No. Why? Well, the death of Saddam surely will ignite another fire of chaos in our neverending war-world. In short, the death penalty that being put upon him surely will be the beginning of a new seed of destruction. I'll make it clear here...the 'killing' of Saddam as we all thought as some sort of punishment for him for what he had done as well as for justice for those who had been affected by his violent acts is in fact not the last of terror, war or chaos in our world! It will only be the beginning of a more chaotic world!!!\nTherefore, I think sentencing him to prison for life will be much better for the good and interest of everyone around the world. Saddam is merely a human like us. The only matter that differentiate him from us is on what he WAS then and Is now. But this is not enough to justify him to be sentenced to death. Thus, I am on the opinion that we all need to think back. Appeal of Saddam's trial MUST be done. It is the only chance for us to ponder back the coming-mistake that the whole community of man is about to commit!!!
932504
YES HE SHOULD BE HANGED TILL DEATH.  IT IS LESSON FOR OTHERS AND JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THIS ATTACK.
942167
i think that what has the world gain in sentencing another man to be hanged? It's another life taken away. Yes, even though Saddam has did things that's terrible but still it's a life. Nothing is being gain from a war, a fight or hanging a man! Instead saddam should be sentenced to help rebuild homes that were destroyed in the war, let him see and feel personally of what he had done! As for bush? He should also bear part of the blame for the war, a war can only be fought when there's 2 countires! I doubt he wld face the same penalty 24yrs down the road but i'm sure at the brink of his death he would feel remorse and guilt. Soldiers died in a war because the country needed them to but what about the women and children? They are the innocents whom got caught in the middle of the war. My prayers goes out to those whom have died for their country, the civilians and of cuz to those family whom has lost a brother, a husband, a father as no man is juz a soldier. In whatever name u call god, pray for those who suffered in the war.
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.