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I say let him go.



Just drop him off in Kurdistan and tell him to run

and put it on tv like running man.

[Supervox]

Th U.S. screwed up - they HAD to make a big thing of capturing him with cameras present - remember the press guy walking into the press conference and saying "ladies & gentlemen, we got 'im" (how long had he been rehearsing that line I wonder ?)

Surely it would have been much better to have left the cameras behind & summarily tried & executed him on the spot in his hole in the ground & just said nothing to the world.

OK, it would have meant lying to people (but when have governments or the military ever had a problem with that ?) by saying "Hey, we just never found him" !!

Originally Posted by Gmonsta

End of next week - cant wait.

I'll make the popcorn

Matt

Poor guy

Originally Posted by Supervox

Surely it would have been much better to have left the cameras behind & summarily tried & executed him on the spot in his hole in the ground & just said nothing to the world.

I partly agree, but think they should have bypassed any trial bit and just shot him when they dug him out. They would however have needed to produce the body and say he 'died resisting capture'. That would have given "closure" the the whole sorry affair.

[SoulKiss]

Nice reply in the "your say" section on the BBC website

Originally Posted by BBC Website

So, Saddam Hussein is to be hanged for signing the death warrants of 148 rebels, would-be murderers, in Dujail in 1982.

Yet George Bush signed the death warrants of 152 people as Governor of Texas. Is he to be hanged for that?

The thing that has to be remembered is that Saddam WAS the legal ruler of the country. What he did WAS legal, even if we look at all he did as evil and corrupt, it was within the laws of the country it happened in.

The whole Saddam trial, and the invasion of Iraq is, to my mind all illegal.

Yes Saddam was evil, but then is the forcing of the "Western" way of life and values on the people of Iraq or Afganistan any less so.

Yes both had terrible regimes that we and many of the people living in them thought were awful, and in some cases, unspeakable things happened and were part of daily life, but was it our place to send in the troops.

I still cant come up with an answer for myself that I am happy with.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Nice reply in the "your say" section on the BBC website

The thing that has to be remembered is that Saddam WAS the legal ruler of the country. What he did WAS legal, even if we look at all he did as evil and corrupt, it was within the laws of the country it happened in.

The whole Saddam trial, and the invasion of Iraq is, to my mind all illegal.

Yes Saddam was evil, but then is the forcing of the "Western" way of life and values on the people of Iraq or Afganistan any less so.

Yes both had terrible regimes that we and many of the people living in them thought were awful, and in some cases, unspeakable things happened and were part of daily life, but was it our place to send in the troops.

I still cant come up with an answer for myself that I am happy with.

I think you're missing the point here.... In the same context he has been found guilty my the Iraqi people.

You managed to "forget" the whole Kurdish villages he decided to gas, and their crime ? Oh yeah, they were Kurds......

Don't kill him, keep him in jail (in a dirty smelly flea pit) for the rest of his days. Humiliate him, don't make him a martyr for the Middle East radicals to aspire to.

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[SoulKiss]

Yes he was tried by his own laws.

Its the way he was brought to trial that is questionable.

What is not under debate is that he SHOULD have been tried, that is a given for what he did, but I have trouble accepting the procedure, as will many of those who will see him as a Martyr

What was done wrong here was the TV camera roadshow leading up to the "We Got Him" press announcement.

Would have been much better had he just turned up dead after "Resisting Arrest" but no, they had to make a press spectacle of it. Everyone knows that he was dead from the day the US/UK troops arrived.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Yes he was tried by his own laws.

Its the way he was brought to trial that is questionable.

What is not under debate is that he SHOULD have been tried, that is a given for what he did, but I have trouble accepting the procedure, as will many of those who will see him as a Martyr

What was done wrong here was the TV camera roadshow leading up to the "We Got Him" press announcement.

Would have been much better had he just turned up dead after "Resisting Arrest" but no, they had to make a press spectacle of it. Everyone knows that he was dead from the day the US/UK troops arrived.

Although I see where you're going on this one, and we all know he was an evil bastid, but I can't see how killing him without ever bringing him to stand trial is right. We end up as much as a dictatorship as those we rise up against.

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