Saddam Hussein 'executed in Iraq'

They all look exactly the same, even with the beard. We all know saddam had tons of look alikes but these pictures show one man and one man alone. Wether they are all saddam is for someone else to decide.

 

So you think he may have been innocent?

 

damn, ya just murdered a perfectly good morning! Bang....
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My turn to laugh haha

 

I believe his trial was not fair.

 

Was what he did to the Kurds and conservative Muslim factions fair? Was gassing them fair? Having his secret police drag people from their homes in the middle of the night to be tortured fair? Was shooting people during cabinet meetings fair?

Saddam was tried as fairly as any person who commits mass crimes against humanity deserves.

I'm betting that if it had been Dubya's trial instead of Hussein's, you'd be quite mum right now.

Saddam should have been counting his lucky balls that he wasn't thrown to a foaming mob of Kurds to be ripped apart by bare hands without so much as a chance to speak for himself.

 

One would hope that the regime which replaces Saddam would adhere to international standards and precedents of international law in these matters, rather than having hasty showtrials and rushed political executions. Not a good start for the nascent Iraqi legal system. It was not a good day for democracy. Saddam's crimes should have been met with justice, not hasty revenge.

He should have been tried at the Hague. I would have liked to have seen him held to account for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens he killed, not summarily executed after a rushed showtrial and convicted for killing just 143 people.

 

Good point.

I guess if one is looking at it with your logic than the trial was not fair at all.

 

Were the Nuremburg trials fair? You could make plenty of arguments they weren't. Was the Milosovic trial fair? Not according to Milosovic supporters.

I hardly see the point of spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on a trial that would reach the same verdict. Name one thing it would change. Of course he wasn't going to get the same justice as someone in Sweden. I don't see the point of setting the bar impossibly high and then moaning that they didn't reach it.

 

So the democracy and justice we are spreading throughout the world is going to be meted out by financial return?

 

So you wish to mete out justice based on assumed facts. If Bush was ever tried I would wish that the trial was conducted in a manner above reproach. And for the record I am anti-capital punishment. Killing solves nothing. It neither brings back the victim nor changes the mindset of the perpetrator.

As far as the Kurds are concerned they have gained nothing by this. Their case was never heard or discussed. Again they are victims.

And his execution taking place on one of the holiest of Muslim holidays was a slap in the face for many Muslims.

 

All killing does is state that killing is acceptable. This version of an eye for an eye is just plain stupid. And if they are going to treat one questionable leader that way, they should treat the others equally and immediately!

 

Apparently, not the population in Deerborne. They are still dancing in the streets.

All I care is that another freak-leader is not around to torment people anymore and that's all that really matters. One down, a few more to go.

 

Deerborne where? An American city or town?

 

Sorry..it's Dearborn. In Michigan. It has one of the(if not the) biggest population of immigrated Iraqis in the country. They were all over the news for celebrating in the streets after Hussein was executed.

 

Hear, Hear ! !

 

Why are they comfortably living in the States, and not living in their home country supporting their new government in person.

 

So you're still not sure if Saddam is guilty? Why not come out and say it instead of pretending?

You better let them know then, because apparently they were celebrating. Of course, what do they know?

How does executing Hussein insult islam? Was he a glorious, revered figure in Islam? How could a muslim be insulted by the execution of a despotic mass murderer, who killed more muslims than anyone else i can think of? Please explain.

 

"Ein Staat, heisst die kalteste von allen kalten Umgeheuer."
("A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters.")
-- Friedrich Nietzsche