Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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My two cents...yeah the man deserved to die, but now he won't get tried for other war crimes, so THOSE families don't have closure...plus, he was still a human being, there wasn't any need to interrupt his final prayers, mock him, kick him, and hang him without letting him prepare himself. Seriously, what ever happened to not lowering yourself to your enemy's level...
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Er...they did not "interrupt his final prayers" with tghe mocking- all of that took place as he was being led to the knoose.
Whatever the circumstances, Saddam was a monster that (for the record) killed far more of his own (muslim) people than anything else while maintaning power.
Note that no one really cared when the corpses of his two sadist fucko sons were shown to the world: everyone agreed the should be put down like rabid dogs.
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Registered: Aug 2002
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Not at all- consider all the young men he sent to die in the ill-concieved wars alone, not to mention the mass graves outside of the prisons full of former political enemies.
So many Iraqi men died during the various conflicts that many Iraqi women fear they will never marry or can not afford to be choosy (according to an NPR report by several Iraqi women, anyway). He managed to almost depopulate a whole generation of young men.
I dont think even the adamant Saddam supporter could claim Vanguard's assertiuon that "Saddam was only killing Jews and Kurds".
Hell of a lot of muslim Kuwaiti's died during Iraq's invasion of that country while the world issued ultimatums as well.
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Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
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Apparently the Saddam hanging has caused a numbre of copycat hangings throughout the world. Younger kids who saw the video are hanging themselves. Plus the fact that Saddam's half brother was decapitated during his execution.
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"I dont think even the adamant Saddam supporter could claim Vanguard's assertiuon that 'Saddam was only killing Jews and Kurds'."
Well, I don't think Vanguard was making that assertion. I think he was accusing others of making that assertion.
But my point was more in reference to the idea that SH was killing "his own people", meaning Muslims. When, of course, he only would have seen Sunnis as "his own people".
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Ah....now I see your point. Strangely enough, Saddam still had supporters in the Shiate(sp?) areas where the trains ran on time and the power usually stayed on.
But people are shallow and base when their creature comforts are threatened- many would prefer a dictatorship that mostly oppressed "someone else" if it meant stability or even a more orderly life in fear than the current situation.
That bit with Saddam's half brother being decapitated "as an act of God" is pretty crass- as though he was somehow worse than Saddam himself and deserving of a more gruesome death. My guess is that they hung him with piano wire (or something simmular). After all, the locals have seen many a hanging, but never a decapitation via knoose.
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Da_bang80
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The reason his head came off was because they gave him too much rope. He dropped like 8 feet, when only 5 would have been sufficient to kill him instantly. At least that's what the frizzy white haired dude on CNN said.
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