It's official. Saddam Hussein was executed today by hanging. Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam Personally I'm relieved but a bit worried about the retaliation this may cause, even though it was inevitable.
I couldn't find anything positive about Saddam or anything positive he's done. Come on, there has to have been something. =\
Is it really bad to actually want to see it? I have this odd curiosity. I hope I'm not like insensitive or something.
well he has done more positive things that the cowboy ruling the US.Iraq may not have been safe during his regime for the americans and kurds but it was more liberal than any other arab state.I've been there once in 2000 and i found it perfectly safe.
It's awesome news. He had it coming. And I'm suprised that it isn't on YouTube or something already haha.
There is a video on there of him getting the noose put around his neck. Then it cuts away to show him already dead. *shudders*
Yeah, that aired this morning on TV. I'm just happy I was asleep, I had this morbid urge to watch it but it would probably have given me nightmares. I don't know, couldn't they have set a firing squad on him?
They probably wanted to give him the taste of his own medicine Nevertheless, I think that the death sentence was the worst possible solution. They should have sentenced him to 150 years, lock him in a cell, throw away the key and let him talk to cockroaches until the end of his life. Just to show the world that they're above it all.
Everyone's better of now he's dead. He's one of the people that never should've lived because he didn't do anything good ever... I wish him the best in his after life and I hope it will be just as horrible as the things he's done to people.
Who's better off now? Are you going to live better now? Are you feeling safer now that he's dead? I don't approve the things he did, that's for sure, but I also don't think that Bush and american government are much better than him. America helped him become what he was and now they made a media spectacle by hanging him. It's never about Saddam or Bin Laden. It's always about profit.
So I guess both you and Todd knew the guy as a child then? What a ridiculous statement. You only know of what he did during his rise to power and what he did when he actually got there.
So what you are trying to say then, is that what he was notorious for outweighs any redeeming actions that he may have done?
Exactly. He killed and tortured thousands and thousands of people in most disgusting ways. Plus he hasn't repented and doesn't even feel sorry about that.
@Cameron: I hate the death penatly, I think it's the worst damn thing ever because I feel taking away someone's freedom is more than enough punishment, however this guy deserved to die no matter what good things he may have done. I'm slightly concerned to what this could potentially lead to though, although I dunno why anyone would wanna rebel against is sentance, he was an evil bastard and probably wouldn't give a shit if people supported him or not.
Giving him the death penalty was the easy way out. It would have been more fitting of him to spend the rest of his days in prison.