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Saddam Hussein
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
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--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---i thought he was being tried by the iraqis? and that its their law thats being carried out. yes he may have been dethroned by the allied forces and then caught by them but if he is being tried by his own people under their own law whats the problem? any western society always has a problem with the sentencing carried out by islamic countries, its a difference of culture
we give an asbo for stealing they cut your hand off :shock:
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Except that Iraqi law doesn't allow the death penalty to be used for a former president (or somthing like that anyway)
Under Iraqi law, Hussain shouldn't be killed.
Under British law he couldn't be killed,
yet US law does allow the death penalty, which is whats going to happen. In the US lesser crims end up on death row for donkeys years, so saddam gets 2 months?
Its all BS. They should have killed him 'by accident' when they captured him.
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It would certainly have saved a lot of money. I'm sure that the line of "Oops, sorry, we thought he was trying to escape!" could have been used.
Bob696:
Lawnmower has a point it would have been a lot better for everyone if Saddam had 'died evading capture'. He would have been a hero for a short time but then forgotten.
For the americans to allow him to be sentenced to death is perhaps their BIGGEST mistake in a couple of years.
The court case was a travasty and is seen as such throughout the muslim world (the first judge was removed because he upheld an application made by the defence that the prosocution objected to for a start).
Saddam will now appear to the muslim world as an antiwest martyre rather than the overbearing dictator that he was (although that is a judgment based on western values rather than arabic values). Even the radical sheites will bulk against it as it is a sign that any ruler could be killed at the behest of the americans.
A far better solution would have been to exile him to some pacific island paradis with all the mod cons and then periodicaly release video of him enjoying himself on the beach.
Manicminer:
The first mistake that America did (after putting/help him in power to start with) was that they didn't finish the job off properly when they had legitimate reason at the time of the first Gulf War. Everything after that has been staged to 'protect' the people of USA :?
Somehow Iraq got dragged into the excuse that it was all in the interest of fighting terrorism.
Garin:
Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6218485.stm
Rich_P:
Helmet on everybody! :o Things are going to really become hell for those still out in Iraq. :(
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