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NTBKtrader
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 Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:52 am Post subject: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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The former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will be hanged by the end of January, a senior member of Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa party predicted today as an around-the-clock curfew kept the lid on sectarian violence after the deposed dictator was sentenced to death.
"I don’t think it will drag on beyond January of next year," said MP Haider al-Abadi, who is a confidant to the Iraqi Prime Minister.
The 69-year-old strongman was sentenced to death yesterday for ordering a brutal crackdown that claimed the lives of 148 Shia from the village of Dujail, north of Baghdad, after a 1982 assassination attempt on his life.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2440186,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=World |
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He deserves it, even though I am against hanging. Lock him for life, or if you really want him killed, just shoot him in the back of his head, but please, no hanging.
I also question the timing... 48h before the US elections? Hopefully this will not affect the elections and the democrats will get the majority in both houses.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| BrazilianPO wrote: | | ...just shoot him in the back of his head, but please, no hanging. |
I don't see any real difference. Both methods are humane. At least if you aim at snapping his neck rather than strangeling him.
The whoe execution business is rather unpleasant though.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:53 am Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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Military tradition says that deserters will be shot and traitors will be hanged (because they're not worth wasting a bullet on).
So, if Saddam is found guilty of treason, rope it is. Otherwise, the rifle.
On this issue, the president around here (Portugal), has made a surprising statement: he said that sparing Saddam's life would serve to show moral superiority of democracy. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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I think it's a little late to be looking for moral superiority, don't you?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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The Hanging of Saddam promises to be a truly wicked global internet download.
Will he dance on air? Will he pee his pants? Will a shoe fall off?
These are all things that people used to bet on at public hangings.
Go YouTube!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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| I just have to feel that adding one more death to this mess isn't going to solve anything. Saddam is a bad guy, so lock him away and let him rot in prison. Killing him will only inflame the passions of the Sunni faithful. We've been doing capital punishment for centuries, and it certainly doesn't deter anyone from committing these attrocities. The next dictator down the road will do the same things, in fact there are dictators out there right now doing stuff that is at par with Saddam. It seems like executions have little to do with the perpetrator of a crime, and more to do with some basic lust for revenge on the part of society as a whole. What can one say, it's just one more senseless act of barbarity in our allegedly "civilized" world. Think what some people will be capable of if society disintegrates after Peak Oil. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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On this issue, the president around here (Portugal), has made a surprising statement: he said that sparing Saddam's life would serve to show moral superiority of democracy. |
I think we ceded the moral high ground when we started torturing. Or maybe it was with the invasion. Or with the lying in the run-up to the war.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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Personally, I'd like to see ol' Saddam suffer a bit. I think people like him should experience a little of the horror they inflicted so willingly on others.
Why were/are Augusto Pinocet, or Pol Pot allowed to live into old age?
Why?
They certainly deserve/d what Saddam is getting.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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A 148 lives eh.... that makes any US president in the last 50 years look like Ghengis Khan in comparison. Oh wait.. it's ok to kill civilians if you entered the country for terrorism reasons.. I forgot when it was ok. ++good.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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| mekrob wrote: | | I think we ceded the moral high ground when we started torturing. Or maybe it was with the invasion. Or with the lying in the run-up to the war. |
Umm yeah...or when we dropped napalm on unarmed Vietnamese for the crime of farming in a free-fire zone. Or when the Phillipeanos jumped in mass off cliffs because it was prefferable to being captured and tortured by our army in the 1900's. Or when Lincoln and Kit Carson sent the Navajo on a death march to Bosque Redondo and they were forced to pick undigested food out of the horse turds to survive. Or when Jackson did the same thing to the Cherokee even after the Supreme Court ruled it illegal.
Now I will cede the point....we're not as bad as the Nazi's. It's not like we ever had much moral high ground though.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
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| smallpoxgirl wrote: | | mekrob wrote: | | I think we ceded the moral high ground when we started torturing. Or maybe it was with the invasion. Or with the lying in the run-up to the war. |
Umm yeah...or when we dropped napalm on unarmed Vietnamese for the crime of farming in a free-fire zone. Or when the Phillipeanos jumped in mass off cliffs because it was prefferable to being captured and tortured by our army in the 1900's. Or when Lincoln and Kit Carson sent the Navajo on a death march to Bosque Redondo and they were forced to pick undigested food out of the horse turds to survive. Or when Jackson did the same thing to the Cherokee even after the Supreme Court ruled it illegal.
Now I will cede the point....we're not as bad as the Nazi's. It's not like we ever had much moral high ground though. |
That pretty much says it. There are other things, but I can't think of any better to add. |
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