Happy Dead Saddam Day

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And as for people enjoying watching him die, over and over...why?

For the same reason that people like to watch football, or eat ice cream, fly a kite or build a skyscraper.

[Ava Estelle]

This thread is bad karma.

It's not our place to judge

I agree.

Sure, by all accounts he was a very bad man, and most likely deserved it.
But I'd leave the judging to people who were there, or who was appointed to judge him (not that those people did a good job, either. and doesn't that bode well for the future ).

None of us have the right.

And as for people enjoying watching him die, over and over...why?

Why do you say people are judging him? No-one is judging him at all, he's already been judged, and found guilty, people are just expressing their pleasure at the verdict. As to the kangaroo court, he didn't deny killing anyone, his defence was that he was entitled to kill them.

As to watching him die, did you watch? Skweeky did.

[j2k4]

This thread is bad karma.

It's not our place to judge

I agree.

Sure, by all accounts he was a very bad man, and most likely deserved it.
But I'd leave the judging to people who were there, or who was appointed to judge him (not that those people did a good job, either. and doesn't that bode well for the future ).

None of us have the right.

And as for people enjoying watching him die, over and over...why?

As for watching him die (I have not, by the way), I don't know that enjoyment would be the word I'd choose.

Satisfaction, certainly.

It wouldn't be anything I'd feel compelled to watch repeatedly, either.

[Snee]

Why do you say people are judging him? No-one is judging him at all, he's already been judged, and found guilty, people are just expressing their pleasure at the verdict. As to the kangaroo court, he didn't deny killing anyone, his defence was that he was entitled to kill them.

People here and in a whole lot of other places in the world ARE judging him, saying he deserved all that he got, and deriving satisfaction from watching him die, yet can anyone who have posted here say that they knew him, or exactly who he was? Or that they, personally, were hurt by him?

He might have needed to die, but it's not my place to say he deserved to be hanged, not by talking from any experience of my own. And it's certainly not my way to enjoy it. I'd leave the judging to his victims or their survivors, and to those who have seen all the evidence and who understand him. The people he hurt, tho', have the right to enjoy it if they have to to be able to close the book on him.

I'll neither miss him, nor feel happy about it. Especially so as the full extent of what he did, and who helped him do it, might never be uncovered, now. Which in my thinking is doing his victims a disfavour. Besides, for some, death is the easy way out.

He's dead, and that's that.

As to watching him die, did you watch? Skweeky did.

I didn't. And as for her, I suppose she felt she needed to see it for whatever reason.

He's dead, why bother looking at him die? I thought watching executions of famous villains and whatnot was something that belonged in the dark ages.

Seems akin to looking at a traffic accident, or somesuch.

It is sure enough that they hanged him, without me confirming it, and I'm certainly not going to derive any pleasure from watching it.

[gamer4eva]

This trial and execution was a farce. The court was set up by the US, and Saddam was held by them until his execution.

He was charged with a crime that didn't involve another country, so there was no embarrassing evidence presented.

He was executed before he could be tried for crimes in which the US and other countries were implicit.

Now no-one will ask who supplied the chemicals used to attack Iran and the Kurds.

No-one will question whether or not the US gave tacit support to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.

Let's execute him quickly and get it over and done with.

Why the rush? Is it because there is too much evidence against the US to allow him to be tried for crimes against humanity?

He should have been sent to The Hague and tried by the International Court of Justice, and every ex-leader of every country that aided him should have been put on trial with him.

This was a victory for those who escaped justice, no-one else.

True to that. Then again there is no true sense of justice in this world.
Everyone is looking to please themselves regardless of how many lives have to be sacrificed.

[dame]

i think its a shame he is dead. i think they should have used him to help rebuild Iraq.
he might not do it at first but 220/240 volts might make him a bit more keen to help the US forces and the UN

hey, if they are going to kill him anyway they then why not and it might even give him a bit of insight into what he did to others.

but his dead so anyway....

[kittybewm]

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[ziggyjuarez]

Almost forgot what the internet was good for.