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It's Done....He's Hanged

Forums: Politics, Saddam Hussein, Obituaries
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:12 pm
My displeasure with capital punishment is a fact but now beside the point.

That hanging was used now is another matter. Seems stupid to me.
That hanging is stupid, that that is even a question...

Is there no learning?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:13 pm
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What gross stupidity.
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JPB
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:13 pm
To borrow a line from BPB ~~ I think that capital punishment is murder; some murders bother me less than others.
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LoneStarMadam
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:24 pm
What i find ironic about the whole thing is, remember how the US has been called troturers, even by some here? Well, Saddams lawyers didn't want saddam turned over to the iraquis, they wanted him keptunder American guards. Now why is that? Rolling Eyes
Saddam is dead & just so the libs won't get all hot & bothered, sweaty around their armpits, this execution won't help the war efforts. So rest assured that the libs can still squeal bush is losing the war.
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McGentrix
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:25 pm
Well, this is good news indeed...
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 29 Dec, 2006 10:29 pm
Even tactically stupid.

Watch the icon grow.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 12:05 am
This is fantastic news. So now the war's over, right?


Right?


http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/images/missionaccomplished.jpg
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 12:29 am
joefromchicago wrote:
This is fantastic news. So now the war's over, right?


Right?


http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/images/missionaccomplished.jpg

How would that follow logically? Killing Hussein wasn't the goal of the war or of the subsequent occupation.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 12:31 am
At least Bush says (according to recent media reports) that Saddam Hussein's execution is an important milestone on the course to becoming a democracy.
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msolga
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 06:05 am
ossobuco wrote:
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What gross stupidity.


I'm with you, osso.
Saddam the martyr.

Rolling Eyes

I don't support capitol punishment, either, btw.
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Zippo
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 06:19 am
WARNING TO ALL THE 'FRIENDS' OF AMERICA !!!!

"One day you are our friend, next day we may hang you" ~
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xingu
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 07:35 am
What i find ironic about the whole thing is, remember how the US has been called troturers, even by some here? Well, Saddams lawyers didn't want saddam turned over to the iraquis, they wanted him keptunder American guards. Now why is that?

Use a little common sense LSM. As long as he was with the Americans he was safe. The Americans were not going to execute him. Once he was given up to the Shiite government he was dead meat. Torture has nothing to do with it.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 07:58 am
Zippo wrote:
WARNING TO ALL THE 'FRIENDS' OF AMERICA !!!!

"One day you are our friend, next day we may hang you" ~

It's not as though we decided to betray and hang a loyal friend based on a shift in our own selfish plans. His own people gave him a trial with an attorney representing him, and an appeal, and then executed him for mass murder.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:09 am
Brandon9000 wrote:
Zippo wrote:
WARNING TO ALL THE 'FRIENDS' OF AMERICA !!!!

"One day you are our friend, next day we may hang you" ~

It's not as though we decided to betray and hang a loyal friend based on a shift in our own selfish plans. His own people gave him a trial with an attorney representing him, and an appeal, and then executed him for mass murder.


true but we were the facilitators of the entire thing. It wouldn't have happened without us. It took place because bush wanted it. I don't have a problem with it, although it was not worth the cost either now or in years, possibly decades to come, but let's call a spade a spade. This was a personal vendetta disguised as a war on terror, and Saddam paid for many crimes as a result of it, but let's don't make bush a defender of justice or the Iraqis because that's just bullshit.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:21 am
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Zippo wrote:
WARNING TO ALL THE 'FRIENDS' OF AMERICA !!!!

"One day you are our friend, next day we may hang you" ~

It's not as though we decided to betray and hang a loyal friend based on a shift in our own selfish plans. His own people gave him a trial with an attorney representing him, and an appeal, and then executed him for mass murder.


true but we were the facilitators of the entire thing. It wouldn't have happened without us. It took place because bush wanted it. I don't have a problem with it, although it was not worth the cost either now or in years, possibly decades to come, but let's call a spade a spade. This was a personal vendetta disguised as a war on terror, and Saddam paid for many crimes as a result of it, but let's don't make bush a defender of justice or the Iraqis because that's just bullshit.

First of all, he was hanged by an Iraqi court after a trial and an appeal, and furthermore was clearly guilty of what he was charged with. He was a particularly odious dictator who treated his country like a personal amusement park and whorehouse. Also, as the president stated numerous times, the invasion was primarily motivated by a sense that if Hussein had merely taken his former WMD development programs further underground, it might soon spell a catastrophe for the world.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:23 am
Brandon9000 wrote:
How would that follow logically? Killing Hussein wasn't the goal of the war or of the subsequent occupation.

Once again, Brandon stares deep into the sarchasm and sees nothing.
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au1929
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:25 am
quote="Walter Hinteler"]At least Bush says (according to recent media reports) that Saddam Hussein's execution is an important milestone on the course to becoming a democracy.[/quote]

Although I am in favor of capital punishment and if anyone deserved it Saddam did. I realize that it is nothing more than revenge and retribution.
I would point out that at this point in time it is anti-climatic and certainly not as Bush says an important milestone.
But than who listens to the ramblings of our esteemed president Bush.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:27 am
Brandon9000 wrote:
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Zippo wrote:
WARNING TO ALL THE 'FRIENDS' OF AMERICA !!!!

"One day you are our friend, next day we may hang you" ~

It's not as though we decided to betray and hang a loyal friend based on a shift in our own selfish plans. His own people gave him a trial with an attorney representing him, and an appeal, and then executed him for mass murder.


true but we were the facilitators of the entire thing. It wouldn't have happened without us. It took place because bush wanted it. I don't have a problem with it, although it was not worth the cost either now or in years, possibly decades to come, but let's call a spade a spade. This was a personal vendetta disguised as a war on terror, and Saddam paid for many crimes as a result of it, but let's don't make bush a defender of justice or the Iraqis because that's just bullshit.

First of all, he was hanged by an Iraqi court after a trial and an appeal, and furthermore was clearly guilty of what he was charged with. He was a particularly odious dictator who treated his country like a personal amusement park and whorehouse. Also, as the president stated numerous times, the invasion was primarily motivated by a sense that if Hussein had merely taken his former WMD development programs further underground, it might soon spell a catastrophe for the world.



like I said, all facilitated by bush. Saddam deserved what he got, but he wouldn't have gotten it if bush hadn't wanted it, not for a terrible dictator because bushco lets many of those go on about their business, but for Saddam specifically. A personal vendetta. The fact that a brutal dictator met a bad end for a bad life is coincidental. bush would have found a reason or (gasp) made one up in order for this to happen. He had decided it before he took the oaah of office.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:37 am
It will certainly happen many more times in the future that an odious dictator, with or without a friendly relationship to terrorists, is trying to develop WMD, but that information about it is sketchy. Saddam Hussein was not a unique case, but the tip of the forthcoming iceberg. We'd better decide how we plan to handle it, because it's going to keep happening.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Sat 30 Dec, 2006 08:42 am
au1929 wrote:
quote="Walter Hinteler"]At least Bush says (according to recent media reports) that Saddam Hussein's execution is an important milestone on the course to becoming a democracy.


Although I am in favor of capital punishment and if anyone deserved it Saddam did. I realize that it is nothing more than revenge and retribution.
I would point out that at this point in time it is anti-climatic and certainly not as Bush says an important milestone.
But than who listens to the ramblings of our esteemed president Bush.[/quote]

Look around there's one example VERY close by Laughing
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