Saddam Hussian - Should he have been hung? [Closes 05/02/07]

[Roboevil]

Oh, I also think torture would have been pointless.

[TehJoshy]

i dont see why they hung him..
they seems to be able to take care of him in a prison..
and it came rather sudden.
dont you think.
you dont hear about the man for ages then its on the news he is dead.

[mat64]

He should have spent the rest of his life in prision, More of a greater punishment than what he recived. He's gone and done with, He didn't suffer like those he killed.

[Tom H]

We could of finished them all of in '91, but no the US stopped us. Anyway why a debate? He's gone mmhmh SHOULD he, can be answered with he has

[e5]

I think yes he should of been hung, and yes I do agree, noone deserves to die... the amount of people he killed, directly or indirectly (his commands) we are talking thousand here is terrible, eventually they decided to catch him and kill him, and in this moment in time he should of been hung.

anyway none of us should be bothered because it doesn't exactly effect our lifes does it really?

but yes I do think he should of had a long, torturious death!

[Ezzie.]

He shouldn't have been hung, I think America should've taken a tougher stance against the iraq authorities and asked for a longer trial period before any harsh decision were made.
In my personal view he should have spent his time in prison, remembering all the lives he inadvertently has taken/disrupted. To be fair he was a good leader but not a good person, the country was in quite relative peace after the village incident, so i don't think he, nor noone deserves death as it lowers us to his level.

But on the opposite side of the argument a part of the pain and anger from the families of those who died, died with Saddam, but is revenge ever the logical way to do somthing?
I've seen the hanging video, they tried to portray Saddam as a frightened broken man,but he stood there mouthing off back to the shiite' guards who were mocking him and also deprived him of sleep in his final hours, they also yelled out at the end to him "muqata, muqata, muqata" (sp?) which is the name of radical shiite cleric.

It's quite confusing why the american authorities handed Saddam over the the iraqi goernment, yet the execution was carried out by shiite followers shouting phrases from an anti american cleric. What the hell?
So in conclusion I don't think it was right to hang him, the trial should have been longer, the way the execution was handled was wrong and shows some doubt in the iraqi government's actions.

Also: To the people yelling for torture, what would that do? How would you feel if you was handed all the necessary tools and told to torture Saddam, could you handle watching him die extremely slowly/painfully, screaming and in extreme pain? We're not in the barbaric ages, we're in a world where we treat things logically.

[Test:Tube:Baby]

He should of had expandable foam shoved up his bumhole, the pain off this would be excruciating but wouldnt kill him... Then he should of been force fed food. After a while his body would of clogged up and he would of started to regurgitate, out of his mouth his own poo.

lmao

i think most people would find that a bit too cruel

[GommeInc]

No. It was unjust and pointless. It won't solve anything as quick as people think it would. All it has done it shown the world that Iraq are still capable of killing and has shown me how many sick people there are in the world, both on this forum and in real life.

People who think he should of been hung are just blindly saying that because he killed people, they haven't bothered thinking about anything else. Iraq, the US, the UK and other countries believed he personally killed the 140+ people in that village, yet he never touched them. The way they tortured them was down to the killers who did it. It is the same with whoever said the go ahead to go to war in the US and UK, but they're not hung now are they?

We live in a unfair and mindless society, who don't look at the bigger picture. Iraq was ok before the war, it is a shame "the west" butt in to other cultures.

[-:Undertaker:-]

No. It was unjust and pointless. It won't solve anything as quick as people think it would. All it has done it shown the world that Iraq are still capable of killing and has shown me how many sick people there are in the world, both on this forum and in real life.

People who think he should of been hung are just blindly saying that because he killed people, they haven't bothered thinking about anything else. Iraq, the US, the UK and other countries believed he personally killed the 140+ people in that village, yet he never touched them. The way they tortured them was down to the killers who did it. It is the same with whoever said the go ahead to go to war in the US and UK, but they're not hung now are they?

We live in a unfair and mindless society, who don't look at the bigger picture. Iraq was ok before the war, it is a shame "the west" butt in to other cultures.

Exactly, UK and US are just pathetic low life bullies.

[GommeInc]

Not low life really. More like high life bullies who take it out on the little country without proper evidence.