So what do you think of Saddam's sentence to death? It was a play made by the Republicans just before?
819550
A possibility, but the man is guilty and no matter when the sentence was passed, it is the correct one.
163817
If there is a possiblity for this strange thing to happen this will only brings another massacre, Saddam is a dictator, not an ordinary one, he is a murderer.\nHe has used chemical weapon against Iranians and his own people and he has done a massacre against Shiia people.\nMany people has died in his prisons.\nIraqi people really hate him, thats one of the reasons Iraq conquered by US troops easily, do you remember how much resistance done in Tikrit, origin of Saddam? You should know that Tikrit is a small town around Baghdad, imagine if all cities resisted that much.
706040
only stooges of American puppet govt enjoying.liberals who love democracy denounce it.as the trail of Saddam was not done transparently.tomorrow you will see the reaction of Saddam's supporters.
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.
197149
I think the first guy to answer this question is seriously hitting the crack pipe a little too much. Since when is gassing your own people a peaceful thing? When did it become a peaceful happy thing to kill innocent people? The day Saddam took power, he held a meeting of the Iraqi parlament, during that meeting he called the names of the members of congress in attendance and asked them to stand up as he called their names off. When he was finished, all the people standing were taken away by Republican Guards and killed.. tell me thats a happy place to live ya idiot! Tell me this, if your mother lived in Iraq and the Republican Guards came strolling in to town.. took your father away and raped your mother in front of your little brothers and sisters, would you feel the same MORON! It's idiots like the first answerer, that makes me sick. You have one sick and demented view of what happy and peaceful is jacka$$! Chemically bombing whole cities killing innocent women, children and men... ya, nice place to live!
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.
1074120
No.  Our government has failed us yet again.  And you know you're going to get "Saddam killed thousands of his own people."  As if the US causing the death of thousands of innocent people is somehow less tragic.
1132406
I agree that the killing is going to escalate, not stop. Radical Islam has a hell of a lot more people than we do (never learned that from Nam I guessed) and they can wait forever. Also, now they have a martyr, not that he didn't deserve to be killed!\n\nQuite frankly, I am getting a distinct message that the President of Iraq does not like a lot of our behaviour and is trying to throw us out. Don't be surprised when there is no democracy in Iraq, and they become more militant than the ones we threw out. They have a big reason to hate us now!!\n\n"The more our Iraqi security forces, our police, our army, the more they grow in number, in training and are ready and able to perform and to protect our people, then the less we need of the multinational forces," al-Rubaie told CNN's "Late Edition."\n\nHe wants us out! Read between the lines if you are able!\n\nPlease quit with the FREEDOM BS!! We are there for OIL, not freedom!! Saddam WAS NEVER a threat to our freedom, I don't care what kind of spin you use!!! Freedom is the rights rationalization to get oil for the oil companies who pay next to nothing in taxes.\n\nCrude has gone down. Haven't seen any lowering of gas prices. Bunch of low life gougers!
262405
Indeed, I wonder how long he'd last on the streets of Baghdad! I think one would have to be extremely politically correct to worry whether or not Saddam's getting a fair trial... Sad though it is - and a noble experiment - Bush's plan to bring democracy to Iraq has predictably turned to crap; give them democracy and they'll elect an autocratic cleric or madman. The Middle East typically produces characters like Saddam, essentially because that's what it wants. You can't educate people who are stuck in the Dark Ages.
935831
Did Alex B GED just claim that the GOP "solved a genocide" in Iraq in his post? I think the phrase is "created a genocide". Iraq officials now claim 150,000 Iraqis have been killed by insurgents. Gosh, the Iraqis must be SO thankful we are there!
803000
Shock and Awe I believe was the promotional for this time round...(hehe-sry). There WERE WMD's, proof of that even goes back to 1980!  I mean, are some people stupid, and just don't know that he gased Kurds...poof, trial and death by hanging now for that eh? (anyway)...AND Saddam Hussien used chemical weapon munitions against Iranian troops.  So- I rest my PROVABLE case there. \nIt may have been better to not invade Iraq, I dunno, but the fact remains, he had WMD's which had to be moved quickly- which some suspect may be in the hands of Syria today.
903576
quote\nis it better to keep him around in prison\n\nAbsolutely not! ! ! Saddam loyalist with the idea of him somehow regaining power is a major source of terror in Iraq. Keeping him alive this long has cost the lives of many American service men.
884022
2 stories from this morning's paper. Very strange way to win the hearts & minds of the people.\n\n\nSoldier pleads guilty to Iraqi girl’s rape and murder, slaying of family\n\n\n\nFORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping an Iraqi girl last spring and killing her and her family pleaded guilty Wednesday and will testify against the others.\n\nSpecialist James Barker agreed to the plea deal to avoid the death penalty, said his civilian lawyer, David Sheldon.\n\nThe killings in Mahmoudiya, a village about 32 kilometres south of Baghdad, were among the worst in a series of alleged attacks on civilians and other abuses by military personnel in Iraq.\n\nSgt. Paul Cortez and Pte. 1st Class Jesse Spielman, both members of the 101st Airborne Division with Barker, could face the death penalty if convicted.\n\nThe alleged ringleader, former army private Steve Green, 21, pleaded not guilty last week to charges including murder and sexual assault.\n\nGreen was discharged from the army for a "personality disorder" before the allegations became known, and prosecutors have yet to say if they will pursue the death penalty against him.\n\nThe indictment accuses Green and others of raping the girl and burning her body to conceal their crimes.\n\n\n\nCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. marine private who pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the killing of an innocent Iraqi civilian was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in custody.\n\nThe military judge wanted to hand down a five-year punishment but was bound by the terms of the plea deal.\n\n"You have a very fortuitous pre-trial agreement," the judge, Lt.-Col. David Jones, told Pte. 1st Class John Jodka.\n\nThe judge ruled after reviewing evidence including a video, made by the squad two days after the killing, in which the 20-year-old private made profane jokes about killing more people.\n\nJodka was part of a squad of seven marines and a U.S. navy corpsman accused of kidnapping 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the Iraqi town Hamdania, taking him to a roadside hole, shooting him and then trying to cover up the murder. \n\nAnd 1 account re "Gitmo".\n\nWASHINGTON - In a development the Bush administration had hoped to avoid, the stories of about 60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out in court papers. \n\n\nAP Photo \n \n   \n\nA U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in one: "Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?" \n\n\nIn another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military tribunal bursts out: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with international law." \n\n\nExpressing defiance in some instances and stoic acceptance of their fate in others, the once-nameless and still-largely faceless detainees appeared last year before tribunals that, after quick reviews, declared they were unlawful enemy combatants who could be held indefinitely. \n\n\nThe government is holding about 550 terrorism suspects at the Navy base in Cuba. An additional 214 have been released since the prison opened in January 2002 — some into the custody of their home governments, others freed outright. \n\n\nLittle information about them has been released through official channels. But stories of 60 or more are spelled out in detail in thousands of pages of transcripts filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challenging their detentions have been filed. \n\n\nOmar Rajab Amin, a Kuwaiti who graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1992, wanted to see the evidence. The tribunal president — the de facto judge for the proceeding — said he could review only unclassified evidence. \n\n\nSome of the exchanges grew heated. \n\n\n"You are not the master of the Earth, sir," Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, told a tribunal president. \n
921743
Saddam Hussein did some terrible things, but I don't support the death penalty under any circumstances.  Let's not forget that the U.S. government was friendly with him up until the day he invaded Kuwait.  Furthermore, he is to be hanged, which is rather draconian.
842153
Tragic and horrible.  However, the reason Saddam was tried for the other murders (not the gassing of the Kurds) was the wmd's he used were supplied by the US, and they didn't want to have to bring in US government agents to testify.
834802
The sad ending to this story is someone who will make Saddam look like Santa will become the new dictator and life will be much worse for the Iraqis- we already made it worse for them.  And no, I do not believe America should be the "judge and jury" for any sickos that pop up- we are hated by all countries now and targeted our country for every terrorist and wacko out there.  When you see a cesspool, you should already know what is in it, you do not need to stir it up to have the shit float to the top, that is what our government has done in Iraq.
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.