Anyone else think Saddam shouldn't have been killed?

[bif]

He had so much dirt on this admin. it isn't even funny.

[KitchenWitch]

1. I am anti death penalty in all circumstances

but yes, especially Saddam, since he did have the goods on our lovely administration.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. The whole trial and execution is so...so...

...don't have any other words except, Bullshit!

Scumsuckers of the human race, and that includes all the media participating in this latest feeding frenzy :(

[bif]

5. Yesterday I heard a re-broadcast of a Fox broadcast...

When the U.S troops were pulling the Saddam statue down. the asshole was saying and laughing, "What is Jacques Chirac thinking now!" Ha ha ha, those stupid frogs. Don't invade Iraq. What a bunch of dumb shits!

[SPKrazy]

16. What Dumb Fucks Fox People Are

there's a special place somewhere for them surely!

:banghead:

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Yo.

[MassLiberal]

4. me

I'm against the death penalty. The whole thing feels very creepy to me.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Yes...

I abhor killing -- for me it makes no difference if it were of an innocent person or a bastard like Saddam Hussein. It's all bad and accomplishes nothing of true value.

[Deja Q]

7. I'm out of the loop, as usual - what dirt did he have?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Me.

What did it accomplish? It didn't undo his atrocities. Whatever miniscule sense of revenge it might offer those who were victimized by his regime, it can't possibly satisfy.

To top it off, it serves to further piss off those who relish any excuse to hate America.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Me. It serves no good purpose.

Perhaps it gave a temporary sense of relief or release or whatever to those whose family members were killed by him, but in the long run, I don't know that it will be helpful to those people.

I thought the trial was a sham, and the main purpose of the execution was to keep Saddam from spilling the beans about Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush the First, et al.

Finally, I do not support the death penalty, I don't care what kind of scum sucker a person is. Imprison them FOR LIFE, give them few privileges, no special favors, etc. Let them spend their days alone. Make sure they never get out. But execute them? No. Do you know that on the death certificates of those who have been executed, the "Cause of Death" is "Homicide"? How is committing homicide against someone who has committed homicide solve anything? How does it atone for anything? It sure doesn't bring the ones those people killed back to the ones who love them.

[SPKrazy]

10. Kangaroo Fuckin' Court!

We'll never know what he did or didn't have on this administration

but the whole court thing was such bullshit

everytime he tried to say anything he was shut down

They might as well just taken him out in the street asked him some questions and shot him.

There was no trial, no doubt that he was going to be killed.

Just a media circus, and a PR thing for * co.

No, this was nothing but a kangaroo court

So, I can't answer the question about should or shouldn't be killed. I'm against the death penalty in general. I would have respected a country's right to self determinatin on that issue, but that wasn't what happened. He was just put up for show and killed for show BY US!

Fuckin' bullshit

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Not only should he not have been executed ...

He should not have been captured. Or deposed. We should never have gone in there with military force. We should have just let him keep Kuwait. Let him fly over Kurdish and Shiite area.

Yeah, he was a murderous thug. But that was an internal thing. Why did we attach THAT murderous thug and not OTHER murderous thugs? Oil?

[AlwaysQuestion]

12. Keeeeeerect!!

Hot damn! PRECISELY!! As evil as he was, there are any number of other evil, murderous "leaders" around the world that Junior the coward could have gone after. Why can't the hordes figure that one out! Bringing democracy to Iraq! Freeing the Iraqi people of Saddam! There are only two types of people who supported the Iraq invasion (1) those who stood to profit by the act (tantamount to being just as criminal as Bushco); and (2) the truly stupid, for you can't have a functioning brain and believe for a moment that Bushco was going into Iraq or anything other than financial gain.

[reyd reid reed]

13. I don't think he should have been executed

if you think about it, the instant he died, he got off easy. His sentence is over. Finished.

It's too easy.

And I don't know, but I'm slightly sickened by the carnival atmosphere that his execution has brought about.

What have we become?

[otherlander]

14. Yes, but...

my own irrational fear of death doesn't determine what's right or wrong.

[BlueIris]

15. Woah, stop that. That's FAR too much thinking.

Not allowed in this America, man.

[Shell Beau]

17. I don't like the death penalty. I think it is barbaric, but

I don't feel sympathy for him. I think if I were Iraqi, my opinion would be more certain. A horrible man killed for his horrible acts. I can't be sad for him, but I think it would be better to have let him rot in jail! :shrug: