Saddam to hang

[sg]

Will this help in any way to clear up the tragedy that is modern day Iraq?

[vehelpfulguy]

There will be appeals, then more appeals.

It will go on for years.

He wont hang.

[maxximus]

u.s. elections nov.7th, but, probably just a coincidence.

[Llamatron]

When they found him in that hole the soldiers should have just dropped in a grenade. It would have made things a whole lot easier.

[keyvan]

The verdict will further marginalise the sunnis and Ba'ath supporters in the country and might escalate in terms of bombings evident in Iraq. Apparently the appeal process is indefinite so he may not get hanged for a long time.

[noxlumos]

As Maximus says, it's suck it and see time in the US, and Bush is terrified, so this is a big result for him. Unfortunatly however much you detest Saddam,( and I do),it was not a
fair trial so the verdict is at best meaningless and at worst nothing better than he was prone to doing himself with his enemies.When we will ever learn that if we are to successfully co-exist anywhere then we have to be at least to be practising what we preach. Only the US and UK govts appear to think this was a credible trial, and as the Iraqi people don't, it'll just lead to more bloodshed.
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[Andyvon]

I was hoping for a sentence of life imprisonment. That may have shown the world that the Iraqi leadership was moving forward and was making an effort to leave the era of judicial killing and brutality in the past. A sentence of death has shown that the new leadership is still in that era of officially sanctioned death that was so characteristic of Saddam.

The murder and violence in Iraq must stop sometime. I thought that a life sentence may have been an opportunity to start that process. It would have been a slight chance I know, but this sentence will probably only serve to continue the violence.

All that aside, I have no sympathy for Saddam. Good riddance!

[kwicky]

If the Iraq war was illegal does that make him any more guilty than Bush and Blair. They should also be put on trial!

[NH]

Well, there's looking at the bright side, optimism, and then there's your question...

[matt66]

ward minter are you taking the peess here as nox suggests or do you really want to see 1.3 billion dead people. You think there will be peace then?

Oh by the way, Iraq was a secular country, not like the UK.

So it was not an islamic state but hey why let the facts get in the way.

To answer the question, Saddam should have been tried in the hague by international courts with international judges. Then a guilty verdict with due process would have more credibility.

[NH]

matt66- I think Ward Minter is always taking the ****. That or he's right-wing enough to make Stalin wince.

Still, it's all very well him killing 1.3 billion people- but howzegonna bury 'em all and stop the decay from imbuing a permanent smell of rot on him?

Mwhahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

[jump79]

I don't think hanging Saddam will resolve anything. I agree with matt66 that his trial would have been handled better at the Hague...

I think much of the crisis in the middle east is caused by tension and imbalance of power, of America calling the shots all the time and Israel bombing countries like Lebanon with no fear of consequences.... I think if Iran were to succeed in pursuing nuclear power this would result in a definite change in the middle east, as America would finally meet its match (like North Korea) and there would no longer be any threat of wars breaking out, hence stability in the middle east.

[admarlow]

Saddam commited his crimes in Iraq, and so it is only fair he is tried by the laws of his country by his own citizens, and if they decide to hang him, so be it.

[Pippa68]

I agree with admarlow.

The fact that he has been tried in his own country speaks volumes ~ it is what they want. If he went to international court the repercussions could be horrendous..although we have seen this already with the war & still we hear/see the killings in Iraq ~ however this is war, which has to be different to the genocide committed by Saddam.

He can hang for all I care. He killed at least 300,000 people during his dictatorship. Mind you, if the CTs are to be believed then we could say that Bush killed 3,000 in one morning ;o)

[bustergutt]

OK, Saddam Hussein convicted of crimes against humanity, who next Robert Mugabe? In this so called War on terror why not? He terrorise his people.

[admarlow]

Indeed, why not