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"He executed thousands of others."
"Ah."
It would be utterly ridiculous to execute Saddam. On a very basic level, we would be executing him for executing others. Which is, at the very least, hypocritical. How we could justify that is beyond me. Sure, you may believe in "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," but how then are you better than the person you're punishing?
On another level, we would be executing him for executing others who don't agree with his political ideology. And we don't believe in executing people who don't agree with our political ideology. So because of this, we're going to execute someone who doesn't agree with our political ideology. Way to go, assholes.
If Saddam is executed, I really will laugh hard. While I'm watching the event on rotten.com, of course.
And how is that sort of thing going to play in the Arab world, where we are supposed to be stopping terrorism? They had an interesting bit on the channel 4 news tonight about how Saddam's capture had gone down in the Middle East: some were glad, others resentful, others said that the fact that it was AMERICANS who had done the capturing was an insult to Arabs everywhere. I don't have any sympathy with Saddam but it's easy to see how it could be created and Saddam turned from dictator to martyr, providing more recruits for Al Quaeda, unless his treatment and trial is treated very carefully. It's too easy, I think, for Bush to use this a bit of re-election triumphalism without thinking about the wider consequences.
Worst possible punishment possible.
When does Saddam have his dinner?
When Tariq 'as 'is.
I think there will be rich comic material in finding Saddam down a hole: this thread is surely the place to test drive new jokes and revive old ones?
> In any case, is killing someone - however evil - really a sensible
> way to start the life of a newly free nation?
Well I'm against the death-penalty even for genoicidal tyrants... but that's easy to say from where I'm standing.
> The only people who will be executing him is the Iraqi people via an
> Iraqi court trial.
But right now I'm not sure that there is an 'Iraqi court trial' to be had. Presumably the old justice system was riddled with Saddam's cronies, and any new system won't have a democratic basis until Iraq is being run by an elected rather than an appointed council.
In any case, is killing someone - however evil - really a sensible way to start the life of a newly free nation?
> Personally, I'd like to see him on Parkinson: well-groomed in a smart
> suit, smoking a cigar and chatting about his life and loves... I bet
> he's hilarious.
No, that will be reserved for the former Iraqi Information Minister.