Do the Iraqi people want Saddam to Hang or for Security in their country?
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It's ironic they had more security under Saddam than they do under U.S. occupation.\n\nDo you remember when Saddam let all Iraq's prisoners out just before the invasion? I've often wondered what those people were in prison for. With the level of violence we see today compared to the level during his regime, I can't help but think Saddam had jailed all the terrorists. But the U.S. came along and they were liberated.\n\nWere some of these people Saddam was killing the bad guys after all???\n\nEven if they were, Saddam didn't follow proper, ethical judicial procedures for taking their life and liberty.
700518
Um under Iraqi law he faces hanging,but he would prefer a firing squad.
749436
Yes and No.\n I dont support the death penalty as a whole but I do believe some crimes warrant it. You have to look into the extenuating circumstances on everything, nothing is the same.\nSaddam was evil and did torture his own people, but at the same time, our country supplied him with weapons and helped keep him in power, so where is our responsibility in this?\n Politically I think it will benefit the Republicans greatly and re energize their core base into thinking they are doing something.\n In Iraq I dont think it will help any since he at sentencing he ya know told his people to overthrow the infidels(us) \n So we shall see wont we.
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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!
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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.
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Why don't you Americans get out of the country and let the Iraqi's handle their own problems? Imagine your country in the Iraqi's place, would you like to be rescued by conquering hero's (actually villains with a false cause- where are the WMD's?).\n\nAnd if you are dying, you are also killing, and killing unarmed civilians too. Well it's your own elected Representatives that sent you out to do the kill, what did you expect, the natives would be too terrified to shoot back? \n\nWould your countrymen react passively to invaders?\nLook at any country that the US has interfered in-they end up destroying it completely- be it Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq - why doesn't the US of a start minding it's own country?\n\nOn a personal note, all I can say is stay alive kid, and do let live - the Geneva convention is there and don't break the rules. You'll only end up making the world hate your country more, and that'd be a pity, for it is one of the greatest countries in the world after mine though!\n\nI am not an Iraqi or Muslim for your info.\nst
761932
Many citizens of Iraq supported Saddam.  He was put into his role in Iraq by the hands of American politicians during the Reagan era.   The Iraqi people know that.  They may have had it hard before this conflict started, but basically, they have lost their world as they know it.  They could at least live and go about their business if they accepted the rules of Saddam's regime.  Now they have lost anything they ever had.  \n\nYes, I think it will have a terrible, adverse effect on America and it is a serious matter we should all be worried about.  We are not liberators in Iraqi's eyes.
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I'm confused, is this a question about Bush or the future of Iraq?  Bush will only be in office a few more years.  Iraq has a future which will go on for a long time.  The thing is, Bush didn't ask the people of Iraq if they wanted help.  He didn't ask the people if they were happy with their old government.  What the people of Iraq are telling him is that they aren't happy with the Bush solution.  Bush needs to pull back and allow the people of Iraq to decide what form of government they want, that is after all, what Democracy is supposed to be all about.  Hopefully the people of the USA will speak loudly in the next election and will get someone who listens to what the people want, not what he(she) wants.
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Political Charade.  Even Saddam admits that he would rather just be executed now than allow Bush to feel that he is just when he eventually orders it.\n\nThe names of the judges are secret.\nThe names of the witnesses are secret.\nThere is NO jury.\n\nAlso, one should be held to a trial that would be expected at the time of the crime was committed.
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I think it is more a case of people are afraid of him than loyal, though he probably has a cadre of loyal bodyguards too.  Iraq is roughly the size of California and a mix of deserts and mountains with some fairly sizeable cities, it is probably difficult to keep track of a small group of foreigners who frequently move around.  In addition to fear Zarqawi has cash to spread around which probably helps keep him hidden as well.  If he were caught I don't think he should be executed right away, he probably is a veritable gold mine of intelligence if he can be made to give up the info.
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I'm watching CNN, and he has been sentenced to death by hanging!\n\nIf Saddam is killed Iraq could decend into civil war. There is a appeals process, so it could be a while.\n\nI REPEAT HE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH.
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Yeah it has. If anything good came out of the disaster of Iraq it is that Saddam will face the ultimate in justice. \n\n300,000 dead victims of Saddam over 20+ years. WOW that is a horrendous figure of carnage. Saddam deserves his fate completely and totally.\n\nWith over 500,000 dead in the last three years due to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Do you think that the hangman could do a 3 for 1 deal? Saddam, Bush and Blair?\n\nDare to dream
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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.
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If you think the Iraqi people do not deserve freedom, then no. If you are smart and realize that everyone deserves freedom, then yes.
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If the Sunni agreed to this, might it not cause a big revolution by those who want Saddam executed?
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No, the Iraqi people no longer want American or any other countries soldiers there.  We cannot force a true Democracy, especially when we do not have one ourselves.  People want to live with "their own kind".  That does not mean they do not want to interact politically.  \n\nWe are killing a maiming our own young people because G. Bush refuses to correct his mistake in going into Iraq.  There were other ways to get rid of Saddam Hussein without ruining Iraq.\n\nThe Iraqi people did not attack us, it was the Saudi Arabians.  We did not go in and take them out.\n\nYou also cannot police the whole world.
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Saddam had the know how to keep control of his people.  He was successful in keeping his enemies at bay, as well, particularly Iran.\n\nThe one thing that Saddam didn't control was his own family.  His two sons were simply evil people.  They murdered, maimed, raped, tortured simply because they could.  Saddam did very little to change their uncontrollable behavior, and eventually it came back to haunt him.\n\nSaddam's own arrogance was his worst enemy.  Why he thought the US wouldn't come after him a second time was a poor calculation.  His own defiance did him in.\n\nDon't do a disservice to the men and women of the armed forces by suggesting the Saddam ran a tighter ship, because he didn't.  Today, much of the blame for Iraq's quagmire can be blamed on Syria and Iran.  Ahmadinejad as much as admitted that he could stop the fighting with the snap of his fingers.  This also means that he's the one who is causing Iraq's civil war.\n\nFor this, he should be punished, severely!