<p>You people with sympathy for him really need to come to grips to reality. He was ruthless and murdered and tortured families, raped daughters in front of mothers, tortured sports teams for not winnin, gasses his own countrymen, paid families of suicide bombers $25,000, the list goes on and on. He died way too quick. As for you jerks blaming Bush for th death of 600,000 civillians, that is just dumb. they are killing eachother, not the US and England. How you equate civil war with foreign troops killing people is an amazing exercie in liberal methods of argument and debate.</p>
<p>This bickering is pointless...</p>
<p>By the way, it's not "me" who's blaming Bush or Blair for the death of 600,000 civilians. If you want a clarification of that, go talk to Kofi Annan and the UN Security Council for their specific report on that...</p>
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<p>It's on google video, quite graphic if ya ask me. </p>
<p>I'll check it out.</p>
<p>ohh s***...! No wonder why I never became a doctor...some people can't digest the picture of death. Did you see the look in his eyes while he was hanging......SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>It's the act of retribution.</p>
<p>Those who lost the lives of their loved ones back in the 80s certainly felt that this was justified.</p>
<p>I'm just not going to get into this debate though. He's dead, and there's nothing we can do about it.</p>
<p>wow. I'm not even going to try watching the video. I'd never be able to watch.</p>
<p>The video posted was crap. It was far too shaky to actually see anything disturbing...and the screen was black for most of the time he was actually dying. </p>
<p>Maybe I'm just heartless, but watching it didn't affect me one bit.</p>
<p>Although it gets buried in the news, 92 Iraqis and 6 Americans died today too, 93 if you count Saddam. Maybe those deaths wouldn't have occurred if people weren't infuriated about the death of Saddam at the hands of a monkey trial and at the time of a religious festival.
Go tell those people about the execution and why it was a good idea.</p>
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<p>ok first of all i can not believe that some of you feel bad that he was executed. i am so glad he died he deserved it. because of him, some of my relatives died in war. i freakin hate him and am glad he is gone. so dont feel bad cause he tortured and killed so many people.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't get it either, college89. </p>
<p>I know a family whose father was tortured by some of Saddam's men (he luckily survived). The stories I've heard from them are horrible. </p>
<p>I guess it's easy to be idealistic when you don't really see or think about the effects of someone's actions...I dunno...maybe some of the have. I just don't get it.</p>
<p>^ Those were Saddam’s men, not Saddam that did the torturing. So why are you so mad at poor, old Saddam?</p>
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<p>I don't like to compare our administration to someone like Sadaam, but American soliders have tortured Iraqis in Iraq, it is not that much different. Bush condones use of torture for interrogation. I keep stressing that no one feels bad that he is dead, we just feel that this was not appropriate considering the circumstances. Killing Sadaam will not bring back or take away any of the atrocities he may have committed. Also, I am firmly against the death penalty in all cases and this is no different.<br>
I don't understand why there has to be more blood spilt in Iraq and furthermore blood on the hands of the "new" Iraqi administration. Killing people and violence are not the solution.</p>
<p>I also would not watch that video, it is disgusting.</p>
<p>The problem is that there isn't a good enough punishment for those kinds of acts because, you're right, nothing will undo what was done. I dunno.</p>
<p>i know that i have no reason to get up on my soap box, and i'm completely aware that cultures very greatly place to place...</p>
<p>but just because he was responsible for ethnocide and tremendous crimes against humanity does not mean he has to be killed for the sake of reciprocation. it's been done before--South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, anyone? Even though it was on a personal level, victim/'s family-contra-victimizer, and not the massive amount of atrocities Saddam committed, many were given amnesty and pardoned. Things don't have to be so blackand white.</p>
<p>Jimmy, you have to realize that those figures take into account the hundreds of suicide bombings that took place since the invasion. It's not the Americans who are blowing up buses, it's the Iraqi jihadists.</p>
<p>However, the number of the innocent Iraqi civilians who have died is still very high.</p>
<p>The Middle East will always be in chaos. They've been killing each other for hundreds of years. Why does everyone think it is going to stop?</p>
<p>The US should just isolate itself like before the second world war and leave other countries alone unless we have ACTUAL PROOF that another country wants to bomb us or something. We should pull out of Korea and Iraq and let them deal with their own problems. Why should we risk our own lives to save another country that's in trouble. Why should it become our problem?</p>
<p>I'm glad Saddam isn't in power anymore, but I think we should put him back in the hole that we found him in.</p>
<p>^ The soldiers probably should have ended it right then.</p>
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<p>I don't know how this thread became another dis-Bush-fest, but if the Americans that were killed wanted to avoid risking their lives, they wouldn't have gone to Iraq. And like Jonathan said, it's the jihadists who are blowing up buses. Bush may have helped to get the Americans into this mess, but he's not giving the orders, "Let's kill 600,000 people! Yee-hawww!!"</p>