Saddam set to hang.  Just or Not?
955701
He should have died in the chicken**** spider hole he was hiding in!!  He wasn't even man enough to end his own life, just take others! I think they should do it and we should be spared the time, expense (and the constant news coverage) of finishing all his issues here!
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
769333
when you say death penalty, i believe its hanging?\nI wonder how this one time leader would feel, if his head was severed in a market place, with crounds of jeering people, as i believe is the traditional arab way?\nWell, if its good enogh for princess's ?\n\nBut then.....didnt the us instigate all this, because he was a Barbarian, not to be trusted with long range chemical weaponry?.....but then theyve side stepped having to jail him for life themselves.....(even they wouldnt hang him, with the worlds media)...so they let someone else do it.
810062
BushCo supported Saddam before, why would you expect anything better now?  Bush is not there to prevent disorder, he is there to preserve it so the plunder can continue on unabated.
848727
I think it is.  The death of Saddam should put an era of Iraqi history to rest.  It may even act as a cathartic event for the country as a whole and allow the present govt. to move forward and tackle the many issues currently facing them.
952377
Sick, U.S. is not killing  him.The newly elected government\nformed by The Great George W. Bush and our Brave Loving Soldiers have ordered death by hanging.Do you know about the mass murders, the torture,Do You know before they torture a Man to a slow death, they rape the wives and child in front of him then kill the kids ,wife and then him.Then Saddam would go home , get the champagne,He and his sons would replay all the tortures for laughs.His nation is thankful.
55400
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.
684881
Yes!!!! Though he never will be. Bush pulled out of the World Court, I guess because he wanted to try Saddam. The funny thing is we started it when we wanted to try the Nazi's. Don't see Saddam being tried in a world court.\n\nI bet he gets a fair trail in Iraq since early on one of the panel already said he was guilty. And guess what the President Of Iraq is? A KURD!\n\nBush has been tried in the Court of Public Opinion and he should be impeached and thrown out of Washington before he does something else stupid.
752912
Saddam will be hanged for murdering 148 people but what about George W. Bush?The death toll of American soldiers in Iraq has reached almost 3000.For what purpose?To free a country that only a dictator could have controlled,look now,Saddam is off power and the people are slaughtering eachother because of ethnic believe.
804955
i wonder what will happen to. I PRAY TO GOD he either gets death or life. this will he a very important test for the iraqi government. if they screw up, then people will be more angry at bush. If they do it right, it will show improvements in Iraq. So pretty much: he will prolly get death or life. I'd rather see him get life. so he would suffer in an american jail, if he is killed, he'd be seen as a  martyr and stir up more war.
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.
920052
I like your line of thinking but I don't know who your talking about.\nIf your talking about saddam... I'd like to see him suffer a little before his death.\nIf your talking about a child molester your death sentence will fit them justly.\nGruesome executions like that may act as a deterrent for criminals. Lord knows jail doesn't scare them any longer. The hardened criminals are fighting to get back behind bars in the U.S.
697517
I could care less if you overlook my reply and do not count me (ohhhh, I am so scared!). If you do not want replies from this site then post on the middle east version of this site.\n\nFirst off, could you please spell that person's name correctly. It is SADDAM HUSSEIN, not Saddan. Duh!\n\nHe was found guilty of crimes by his countrymen, in an Iraqi court of law.\n\nHang 'em and hang 'em high!
643508
Chances are they'll end up letting him slip back into the hands of the insurgency, then it'll be a huge problem.  They should just kill him and get it over with before that happens.
185178
Regardless of how he got in there, we have to stand behind the decision.  There might not have been all the reasons stated, but they did find enriched uranium there, and other signs of helping terrorism.  We ousted a dictator by the majority of Iraq's request.  Else we wouldn't have gone in.\nSaddam should be dead already.  But he is a strong man, and it wouldn't surprise me much if somehow he got free, after all we have done.  \n\nThe military should have just shot him.  He is a mentally ill person with a great deal of power, and all of it is focussed on ruining western civilization as we know it.  If you don't believe that, then I'm not sure what I could say to convince you
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.
942736
No, I don't think Saddam actually said that, or would support such a statement.  Nonetheless one of his attorneys is on record as claiming that he did.  It may be a PR stunt, or the attorney may have independently decided to defuse Saddam's expected outburst.  Lawyers are a weird bunch.