What kind of an effect will Saddams hanging bring  on Iraq?
924531
A good effect! Maybe with him out of the way the americans can finally get the terrorists to understand that were only trying to help their country. Plus without the main terrorist alive iraq might not try to terrorize america again. Sorry if this is worded wrond, Im only 13.
25167
When Iraq becomes Americanized...
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!!!
362140
Very scary.\nThe streets will look like downtown Baghdad and the national language will be Spanish.\nWhite men will be 3rd class citizens.
896830
Will be better when the real hanging takes place
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.
980747
Personally I really don't care what happens to Saddam.. he was a horrible man that did horrible things to the people of his country and hopefully with our help they can step in and make their country better... The only person however that I care about is Bin Laden and his followers...
754923
get real more chance of saddam hussain  getting off a hanging and being given an asbo.
853644
It's hard to say.  I tend to feel it will be a rubber stamp government for a Sectarian leadership, much like IRan is.\n\nThere will probalby be oppression, probablky against the minority Sunni and no one will truly know if it for there won't be a free press nor free access for outside press.\n\nThe government will probablly be anti-American.  Possibly in bed with IRan.\n\nWe will probably regret removing Saddam from power.\n\nDemocracy is not working now and will not be working in 3 years.  The Militia leaders will probably control the government\n\nThere probably won't be much of a say for women in government either.
749053
The outcome of the trial was inevitable. Considering the environment in which he was tried (and rightly so!), he didn't have a prayer. After all, the current regime considered to be in power in Iraq was not put into place by Hussein, right? Regardless, with the undeniable evidence of his human rights violations, he took pains to hang himself long prior to America's second invasion of Iraq.\n\nI kind of agree with his lawyer that this was a political play for Americans...think about it, they caught him right before an important election...and now, they have convicted him again right before an important election.\n\nWhen did they start having legal trial verdicts on Sunday afternoon?
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.
1018754
Badly, very badly.\n\nAll three sides, the Sunnis, Kurds and Shi'ites will fight like dogs, and eventually the United States will not be able to stop it. Those Iraqi troops we trained will also come back to haunt us too. This is a bad situation, and all the weapons in the US arsenal will not be able to solve it.\n\nOn the upside, I think it would have happened one way or the other, contrary to liberal public opinion....sad situation, time for us to leave!
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.
777244
he should be hung like Saddam our of with his head the sick bastard hope he gets what he deserves in side the clink
632902
I think it will be like Vietnam where the US won militarily in terms of the number of enemy troops/insurgents that were killed(US lost 58,000 soldiers, Viet Cong lost over 1.5 million) but did not acheive its goal to stop the communist takeover of Vietnam. The US will no doubt kill dozens of insurgents for every soldier it loses in Iraq but public opinion in the States will eventually lead to troop withdrawal and the insurgents may overthrow the undefended and overwhelmed democratic government and install a theocracy like Iran
703052
Ummm... if you've been watching the news he has all ready been prosecuted. He is going to be hung. \n\nShould he be prosecuted for killing 148 people who supposedly tried to assasinate him? I think it depends if the people actually tried to assasinate him.\n\nAnd that is just one of the crimes he has commited. \n\nHow ignorant of people to blame Bush for everything! If you haven't done you're research don't make generalizing comments. Saddam is being judged by an Iraqi Court, not an American one.
837703
Saddam Hussein successfully kept a lid on the Shia/Sunni schism, but we've upset the apple cart.  Not too long ago, the warmongers used to shut people up by asking, "Do you think the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam Hussein?"  Now the answer is clear.  YES THEY WERE!  More are dying now that he ever purged, and there's chaos.