Saddam Hussein EXECUTED - Your opinons, Discuss, Debate?

[Epoman]

As you all know by now Saddam Hussein has been executed.



Here is a VIDEO of the execution:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521

Here is a story excerpt:

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed Saturday morning for crimes against his people. Iraqi officials present at the hanging say Saddam went to his death a broken man, but showed no remorse for his actions. Holding the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and refusing a black hood, Saddam Hussein faced the same fate many common criminals suffered during his more than 20 years as Iraq's president. Shortly after 6 a.m. local time, the former strongman was hanged. The execution took place at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad's Shi'ite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, outside the heavily fortified Green Zone. In video footage released on state-run al-Iraqiyah television, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who did not attend the hanging, is shown signing the execution order. The video then cuts to the scene of the execution, where five masked men are escorting a calm Saddam Hussein to the gallows. A black cloth is wrapped around his neck, but he is not hooded. His hands are tied behind his back and his legs are bound together. Two executioners put the large rope noose around his neck. The footage ends there. Iraqi National Security Advisor Moaffaq al-Rubaie, who witnessed the execution, said it was handled completely by the Iraqis, and no American witnesses were present. Rubaie told Iraqiyah state television that only Saddam was executed, because Iraqi officials wanted to make it a day only about him. Rubaie said they chose the execution time, just before sunrise, so it would occur before the official start of the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca. Initial reports said two of Saddam's lieutenants had been hanged just after him, but Rubaie said this was not the case, and that Barzan al-Tikriti and Bawad al-Bandar would be executed after the Eid holiday.

Here is some information on Saddam Hussein:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein

So what is your opinion on this? I think he got off easy. He was responsible for the murder/torture of literally millions of people. Discuss?

- Epoman

[jedimaster]

I know I will get beatten by the rest, but I don't believe in death penalty. Everytime man takes he live of others I believe is a shame. Now...eat me alive!

[Epoman]

I know I will get beatten by the rest, but I don't believe in death penalty. Everytime man takes he live of others I believe is a shame. Now...eat me alive!

You have every right to state your belief.  I personally think the death penalty is the easy way out, I believe is HARD LABOR, NO PRIVLEGES, LIFE IN PRISON.

- Epoman

[glitter]

Well I may not be politically correct-but WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO_HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

and Good frigen riddance!!!!!!!



and thanks for the video link-I hadn't seen him swing!!!!!

[Sara]

That is a disgusting video.       I am not really pro-death penalty either.

[jbeany]

I'm wishy washy on this one - part of me thinks hanging was too good for him.  He should have had to suffer a really long, miserable life in a rotten little cell, deprived of every freedom and luxury.  Part of me thinks he got exactly what he deserved - a trial, a prompt sentence, and no messing around with umpteen appeals.  Maybe I'm just hoping a few of the other nutso dictators, like North Korea's Kim Jong Il, will take notice and take warning.

Not being particularly religious myself, I usually am against any kind of death penalty.  I don't see it as sending them to "meet their Maker" where they will receive some higher justice.  I prefer the idea of the wrongdoer suffering in a lousy little cage for the rest of their life.  In the American justice system, given the cost of appeals, it's actually cheaper to lock them up forever, anyhow.

[goofynina]

I think we should've put him in prison and let him be Big Bubba's Bitch!!! 

[Sara]

I think we should've put him in prison and let him be Big Bubba's Bitch!!! 

Yeah! 

[kitkatz]

When I heard the actually hanged him today I was shocked.  I thought for sure our system would let him go on living indefinitely, because that is what American justice does.  But then it is Iraq and the laws and customs are different over there.  Did his death make up for the lives he destroyed?  Probably not.  I hope he meets up with the Devil and becomes Big Bubba's roomate in hell! Absolute power corrupted him, before he became a dictator he actually was doing good things for his country of Iraq.  But then the evil side came out and he did kill a lot of people. 
In the end the world is probably a better place without him.

[Sluff]

It was too easy on him.  Now where is Bin Laden.

[Fighter]

I know I will get beatten by the rest, but I don't believe in death penalty. Everytime man takes he live of others I believe is a shame. Now...eat me alive!

I couldn't agree more. The death penalty is barbaric and has no place in the civilized world IMHO. Hanging, in particular, strikes me as gruesome and medieval. Not that Saddam didn't deserve a gruesome punishment, only not that one.

[Foxys-Boy-Toy]

He deserved gruesome punishment, and what he got wasn't gruesome enough. As a veteran that served in the middle east and saw first hand the results of his actions and actually have met with the families and victims of his crimes he deserved far worse than he received. I know with my PTSD I will sleep easier knowing he got this fate but I wish he receive far worse. I will repent for these feelings later, but when you meet and see the victims of his crimes face to face it is hard not to wish worse than he received!

[Ellen]

I am Anti Death Penalty 100%   but
 
here's the wierd part:   I believe that executed person was NOT S.H.  I believe he probably used plastic surgery long ago  to make a number of perfect doubles for himself.  He would never have been caught and certainly not in a little hole.  So .... somebody was executed, but not The Man himself.  I am not subject to conspiracy theories and do not enjoy being a Mary Contrary for the sake of contraryness alone.  But, I've always believed the above since i heard he was captured.

Ellen

[Sluff]

I am Anti Death Penalty 100%   but
 
here's the wierd part:   I believe that executed person was NOT S.H.  I believe he probably used plastic surgery long ago  to make a number of perfect doubles for himself.  He would never have been caught and certainly not in a little hole.  So .... somebody was executed, but not The Man himself.  I am not subject to conspiracy theories and do not enjoy being a Mary Contrary for the sake of contraryness alone.  But, I've always believed the above since i heard he was captured.

Ellen

They did a DNA swab test.

[boxman55]

Great Video him swinging should have been front page picture in all news papers

[Ellen]

Yikes.... a DNA swab test.... Wow....   I didn't know.

WEll, anyhow... I am amazed.   what was his DNA doing sitting around anyhow?

Okay, okay, I believe it now.   thanks for info....

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[BigSky]

The punishment handed out was what was merited in this case.

Saddam himself earned this punishment when he ruthlessly murdered innocent men, women.  The worst of all he tortured and murdered the most innocent of Iraqi society---children.


Truly civilized societys do use the death penalty as they believe in natural law.

Punishment of death is reserved to those that commit the most heinous crime against natural law. 

[Ohio Buckeye]

He did not deserve to live after what he did to countless people.

[meadowlandsnj]

I watched the beginning of the video but I chickened out before he was hanged.  I was watching the expressions on his face and I was thinking what he must have felt like knowing his death was imminent.  I wonder if he thought of all the thousands of people he had tortured and killed, the women and children he had raped in his rape rooms in his palaces, the men and boys who had limbs amputated for sport for his perverse pleasure.  This was an evil, bad man.  I know he was executed for the crimes he was charged with in the trial but there was so much more he was responsible for.  He had people beaten and whipped, tortured and maimed during his regime.  And he didn't even blink an eye. 
But you'd never know it seeing him on the gallows.  He looked just like any other thug, powerless when it came down to justice finally being handed out.  Know he know what it feels like to be on the other side of the rope, those minutes before you know you're going to die. 

Donna

[Joe Paul]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

[Epoman]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

An "Eye for an Eye"? Think about it for a second.

[Joe Paul]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

An "Eye for an Eye"? Think about it for a second.

According to the bible, the very first murder when Cain killed Able, God sent Cain to wander the rest of his life. Eye for an Eye, was again mans decision, not Gods.

[Epoman]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

An "Eye for an Eye"? Think about it for a second.

According to the bible, the very first murder when Cain killed Able, God sent Cain to wander the rest of his life. Eye for an Eye, was again mans decision, not Gods.

Yes, but since Saddam wanted to play "GOD" and so easily take lives (Millions), he did not follow GODS laws so.... IMHO he should not be protected by GOD'S laws.

[Joe Paul]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

An "Eye for an Eye"? Think about it for a second.

According to the bible, the very first murder when Cain killed Able, God sent Cain to wander the rest of his life. Eye for an Eye, was again mans decision, not Gods.

Yes, but since Saddam wanted to play "GOD" and so easily take lives (Millions), he did not follow GODS laws so.... IMHO he should not be protected by GOD'S laws.

Its hard giving God full control, after all, being human does have its drawbacks. We want to see to believe. Ask Thomas.

[Epoman]

God Gives life, let God take it away.

An "Eye for an Eye"? Think about it for a second.

According to the bible, the very first murder when Cain killed Able, God sent Cain to wander the rest of his life. Eye for an Eye, was again mans decision, not Gods.

Yes, but since Saddam wanted to play "GOD" and so easily take lives (Millions), he did not follow GODS laws so.... IMHO he should not be protected by GOD'S laws.

Its hard giving God full control, after all, being human does have its drawbacks. We want to see to believe. Ask Thomas.

Touché JoePaul, I know I wish sometimes I wouldn't worry as much and remember that GOD is in control and I can't control what happens. Being human does indeed have it's drawbacks.