Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

One of the horrible people who if left alive would be at risk of being got out of gaol or plotting a comeback & dead a martyr figure with much the same result.

However I would prefer to see him live but allowed to hoard paracetamol for a while till he has sufficient to end his own life ;)

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

I would like to first drag him through Iraq, making sure he remains awake, and in full on agony, before then cutting his hands off and then his feet, and leaving him with only enough medical care to keep him alive and awake, before making him live with no dinity on public tv for about 10years before finally letting the swine die in his own excriment.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

Currently I favour lethal injection, on the basis that its quick, and relatively humane. You have to remember that the neck may not break in a hanging then the condemned is left to slowly strangle to death.

And yes I appreciate this is saddam hussein, but we cannot be justified in punishing him any more than others. Would Bin Ladin be hanged? No
This just smacks of the nazi trials in Nuremburg, none of them had much chance either.

Firing squad is bull**** macho ism from Saddam.

I also have to express my surprise that he isn't to be beheaded.


You also have the question of what to do with the body afterwards. HO Hum, they really have not thought this through have they?

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

I can think of leaders close to home who frown on people who " speak out of line " or their lives are made a misery,and they profit at our expense, but the fact they are not killed makes it ok?
We will have to see how things turn out, I personally see an escalation, as if things can get any worse? :erm:

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Maybe these were the thoughts of sadam about his people? :erm:
I dont know if going through this whole scenario actually cures anything.
Ok he was found guilty, but will the execution of one person send out a warning to others? I do not hold much hope.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

And there in is the rub. If you kill him, you make him a martyr - a pin up for all the extremists out there. If you keep him alive, you make him a hero - suffering in the prison for the cause. And every hostage taker wants him freed. It's no-win.

A firing squad has a certain cachet to it - very much in keeping with martyrdom.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

The soldiers who found him cowering in his rat hole should have thrown a hand grenade in, would have saved a lot of problems.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

I thought they were going to let him off with an ASBO ! :)

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

A very astute observation :)

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

Maybe even tag him ;)

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

Waste of a grenade.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

Question is with all the cutbacks would there have been a grenade to throw in?;)

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

When will they be hanging Bush and Blair then? they have,after all,killed more people than Saddam.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

You need to examine the amount of people Saddam killed. Not to mention most of the people killed the US/UK forces were terrorists. Unlike Saddam who gassed his own people.

So sick of these attempts to make Blair and Bush worse than Saddam.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

There are some similarities though.

Bush was elected in a very dodgy manner
Blair went to war for no legitimate reason (making him technically a war monger)
Bush is a warmonger


I doubt they are worse than Saddam but they arent entirely squeeky clean themselves.

Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
 

At the end of the day it is up to the Iraqi people to decide what to do with him..They are the ones who suffered under his regime so they get to make the choice.

What we would want done to him is immaterial because we didn't actually get anything more from him than irritation and annoyance.Can't put a man to death for that. :erm: