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Yeap, an end of an era...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday.

The former Iraqi president ousted in April 2003 by a U.S.- led invasion was convicted in November of crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ite villagers from Dujail after a failed assassination bid in 1982.

An appeals court upheld the death penalty on Tuesday. Iraq's government has kept details of its plans to conduct the execution completely secret amid concerns it could spark a violent backlash from his former supporters.
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scsl said:
Yeap, an end of an era...
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I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.

Not that I have any ideas about what would be better.

Julia
 
Julia said:
I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.
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Especially now that he will never actually be found guilty of anything he was accused of. Way to create a martyr.
 
chops_a_must said:
Especially now that he will never actually be found guilty of anything he was accused of. Way to create a martyr.
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He was hanged because he was found guilty of some genocide in 1982. Otherwise he would have died of old age before he was found guilty of everything he did.
 
Buy low said:
He was hanged because he was found guilty of some genocide in 1982. Otherwise he would have died of old age before he was found guilty of everything he did.
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About 100 people or so is hardly genocide.
 
Julia said:
I'm not sure why, but I feel a bit sick at hearing this. I realise it will make a lot of people happy, and probably also generate even more violence from his supporters, but I just find it hard to see how killing the killer makes everything even.

Not that I have any ideas about what would be better.

Julia
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I can see where your coming from in a way, However, this guy was a prick that deserved what was coming to him. full stop!
 
chops_a_must said:
About 100 people or so is hardly genocide.
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The reason he was on trial for this "minor" mass murder is because there was no direct involvement by the good old US of A in that particular cull.
A great deal of his genocide can be linked back directly to the US. Never forget that the US gave Saddam the tools to murder Iranians, not his own people. The US just got upset when Saddam got out of control and wouldn't be the lap dog. It's all in black and white and part of history.

Saddam will probably become more powerful in death as a perceived martyr for all those young angry people who will continue to kill. Meanwhile the Iraqi people still live in fear of being shot in the street, or being bombed by their "friends" or by a random suicide bomber. At least under Saddam's evil reign, there were rules. Evil, tyranous rules, but rules just the same. I know what I'd choose.

They should have kept him alive and forced to help elderly people change their bedpans when not locked in solitary confinement.


cheers,
 
Shows what the world is coming too. We have mass genocide in Rwanda, Daphor and many other places and nothing is being done, we don't even hear about it on the news.......Yet Saddam makes front page. The only reason he was executed so soon was because Iraq has fallen into civil war and they think this will make the Iraqis think that progress has been made. Yet more Iraqis have died in Iraq since the invasion then under Saddam.
 
Phoenix said:
Shows what the world is coming too. We have mass genocide in Rwanda, Daphor and many other places and nothing is being done, we don't even hear about it on the news.......Yet Saddam makes front page. The only reason he was executed so soon was because Iraq has fallen into civil war and they think this will make the Iraqis think that progress has been made. Yet more Iraqis have died in Iraq since the invasion then under Saddam.
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Almost on the money, Phoenix.
Note that saddam was not tried for genocide.
Moreover, he now can't be.
The US could not afford for Saddam to present the evidence that enabled him to mount attacks on his own people.
That one is just a bit too close to home for them.

On a more serious matter, Saddam's case could have provided a new test bed for international jurisprudence post Bosnia etc.
However, again the US manipulated the Iraqi legal process to ensure it was seen that the Iraqis were responsible for trying one of their own.
Anyone in legal circles has seen through the charade: It continues to make the US treatment of David Hicks and others a limp attempt at "justice", on terms that suit only American politics.

I guess now that Saddam is no more, the world truly is a "safer" place!
 
A very sad day.

Not because I think Saddam was a particularly nice bloke, but now I wonder who's worse. A sad day for justice.
 
We should have hired him as consultant (again) to advise on how to keep the place quiet...
 
Stan 101 said:
Saddam will probably become more powerful in death as a perceived martyr for all those young angry people who will continue to kill. Meanwhile the Iraqi people still live in fear of being shot in the street, or being bombed by their "friends" or by a random suicide bomber.
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Agree. It's not as though the death of this former dictator is going to solve all of Iraq's problems. Which is why the news footage of Iraqis in Australia saying "Now we can return to Iraq and not fear for our lives..." really puzzles me.

Having said that, Saddam Hussein was disgracefully brutal and unforgiving - which is why it's been documented that even while he was captured and put behind bars and undergoing trial, many Iraqis stilled feared for their lives.
 
Might be symbolic to his victims but aint gonna make one iota of difference to Iraq's present predicament. And just have a look at how his void's been filled!
 
Kipp said:
When is Bush standing trial?
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For the salvation of civilisation Saddam had to die - the Hitler/Mussolini of recent history. There are others who must follow him, those who indulge themselves in genocide.
 

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