Saddam hanging: my reaction

miller8966

I know what your all thinking: miller8966 must be as happy as a pig in shit...but honestly im not. I saw no reason for the execution of saddam.

I am not disagreeing with the fact that he is a tyrant and deserved justice...but to me a life in jail would have been far better than to give him the death penalty.

"As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account."

That kind of scares me.

Byrnzie

You surprise me Miller. In a good way.

RavennaSeattle1911

if it wasnt so tragic it would be funny

it sounds like a mell brooks movie

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1871705540157352608635095369801151251435?threadid=KAKGKUTHFG6HUVNJ

bush says things wont change

when wa state hung wesley allen dodd in usa i think that year we had the highest crime rate that year or bundy too but im not real sure

i dont think death deters much-it seems to make them do moreand or they go out celibrate drive drunk and kill more or fight-sort of funny if it wasnt so tragic

aNiMaL

Even as much as I dislike the Bush administration and the fact that we went to war with Iraq in the first place instead of keeping on with the war on terror...as much as I disagree with all that jazz.....I couldn't be happier they hung that bastard. Reading that he was a scared broken man in his last minutes makes me happy.

To me, this would be like mourning Stalin or Hitler.

Screw that....good riddance Saddam.

RavennaSeattle1911

if it wasnt so tragic it would be funny

it sounds like a mell brooks movie

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1871705540157352608635095369801151251435?threadid=KAKGKUTHFG6HUVNJ

bush says things wont change

when wa state hung wesley allen dodd in usa i think that year we had the highest crime rate that year or bundy too but im not real sure

i dont think death deters much-it seems to make them do moreand or they go out celibrate drive drunk and kill more or fight-sort of funny if it wasnt so tragic

sponger

Wasn't Milosevich just as bad as Saddam? Why did he only get a prison sentence. Is it racism?

Byrnzie

sponger wrote:

Wasn't Milosevich just as bad as Saddam? Why did he only get a prison sentence. Is it racism?

Because capital punishment isn't practised in the Netherlands.

dunkman

Byrnzie wrote:

Because capital punishment isn't practised in the Netherlands.

i love the use of the word "practised" in this context... implies men in black hoods trying out their death contraptions on small rodents, monkeys, mick hucknall....

keeponrockin

miller8966 wrote:

I know what your all thinking: miller8966 must be as happy as a pig in shit...but honestly im not. I saw no reason for the execution of saddam.

I am not disagreeing with the fact that he is a tyrant and deserved justice...but to me a life in jail would have been far better than to give him the death penalty.

"As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account."

That kind of scares me.

This may be the only time, but I completelyy agree with you.

keeponrockin

aNiMaL wrote:

Even as much as I dislike the Bush administration and the fact that we went to war with Iraq in the first place instead of keeping on with the war on terror...as much as I disagree with all that jazz.....I couldn't be happier they hung that bastard. Reading that he was a scared broken man in his last minutes makes me happy.

To me, this would be like mourning Stalin or Hitler.

Screw that....good riddance Saddam.

I don't think we're mourning, as much as we think it would be better stratigcally not to hang him. This just gives the insurgants more reason to fight.

pjalive21

miller8966 wrote:

I know what your all thinking: miller8966 must be as happy as a pig in shit...but honestly im not. I saw no reason for the execution of saddam.

I am not disagreeing with the fact that he is a tyrant and deserved justice...but to me a life in jail would have been far better than to give him the death penalty.

"As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account."

That kind of scares me.

life in jail and you are going to pick up the tab for keeping him alive, right??

know1

pjalive21 wrote:

life in jail and you are going to pick up the tab for keeping him alive, right??

Please don't bring money into this. The amount we pay to keep someone in prison for life is but a drop in the bucket compared to many, many other things.

South of Seattle

know1 wrote:

Please don't bring money into this. The amount we pay to keep someone in prison for life is but a drop in the bucket compared to many, many other things.

Especially when Iraq would be paying for it.

not4u

A klank of a glass and a toast.
Through celebration "bring in the new year!" timmed to "celebrate the death of suddam" is a good example of mixing religion and killing or death howeverway you see it.
The whole christian world this year with no choice has been forced to go through with this. Each opinion either yes or no, i can see a trend for this factor.

bovy_j

The only person who could truly enjoy that execution is Saddam. Instead of having to spend the rest of his life in prison, living like shit, smelling like shit, eating shit. Saddam goes through what...2 minutes or less or pain, and is free of all the problems he would face in prison.

I believe the bastard should have been put in prison and not hung. Maybe it's the fact that I do not support capital punishment, but I'd much rather see Saddam rot in prison than be set free into the afterlife.

Just my opinion.

sponger

I dunno. I think if he had a choice, he would've gone with life in prison. All these guys on death row wouldn't be scrambling for reprieve after reprieve if they really preferred execution to life imprisonment.

Urban Hiker

miller8966 wrote:

I am not disagreeing with the fact that he is a tyrant and deserved justice...but to me a life in jail would have been far better than to give him the death penalty.

Agreed. Death is an easy out.

Hammertone

Nothing like seeing that noose go around his neck on Global TV. That's going out in dignity if ever I saw it. He could have gone out in a blinding flash of laser guided nightvision, with the rest of his homies when the Bath Party headquarters was bombed. There were way too many of those guys to process through the judicial system. But who knows what they were cookin up in there? They may have been providing a decoy for the WMD truck to get out of town.

SweetHarmonics

The biggest tragedy is that we lost a valued employee who knew how to keep those idiots in line. That much should be clear by now.

Cosmo

miller8966 wrote:

I know what your all thinking: miller8966 must be as happy as a pig in shit...but honestly im not. I saw no reason for the execution of saddam.

I am not disagreeing with the fact that he is a tyrant and deserved justice...but to me a life in jail would have been far better than to give him the death penalty.

"As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying "Muqtada al-Sadr" in a mocking tone, according to Haddad's account."

That kind of scares me.

...
We knew this going in... or, at least, we SHOULD have known this.
Was there anyone that truely believed that 3 decades of oppression would result in forgiveness and collaboration once the guns were placed in the oppressed's hands? Seriously. We're talking Arabs, here, Kiddies. You have to be completely naive or a complete idiot to think that there would not be vengance and reprisals in a changing of the guard. And, seriously... can you blame them? I mean, imagine your family being hauled off in the middle of the night and never seen again... until 22 years later when their remains are identified in a mass gravesite near a city dump. Would you be full of forgiveness and national pride because 22 years is long enough to forgive and forget about your parents and siblings torture and murder... or would you be out to kick some Sunni ass?
Face it... we have turned Iraq over to the Islamic Fundamentalist Iranians... something the Ayatollah Khomenin could only dream about. Now, his spawn in the form of Muqtada Al Sadr has influence in the Democratically elected Iraqi government.
"Spreading Democracy" is a good battle cry for the idiots who believe it... but, think about it... the majority of those people over there believe America is the decadent Great Satan and the worst evil the world has ever witnessed. Who do you think they are going to elect into power with a popular vote? If you guessed, "Someone who hates America", then give yourself an 'A'.
Hint: The LAST place you want to spread Democracy to right now... Pakistan. The America friendly guy over there took charge in a coup, not a Democratic election. The guy is the President/Army Chief of Staff. If you are justifying our support in money and weapons to Pakistan with the lame ass, 'The Enemy of my enemy...' bullshit, remember this... that role, the 'enemy of my enemy' was once tagged to Saddam Hussein and Usama Bin Laden. Maybe it's time to dump that policy regarding our foriegn affairs.

MrBrian

I don't wanna start another thread about this topic right now, but since this one is about "reaction" i'll post it in this thread.

Ramsey Clark's reaction to the saddam hanging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNA3t3guG90