No problem. Spare ribs it is...
But I want him speared.
The Dalai Lama is entitled to express his opinion, and the Iraqis may take as much or as little notice of it as they wish.
That said, I wonder if the live execution thread will be as much fun as the one for Tookie Williams?
I agree! He should be speared! That would be a fitting way for him to go.
What?!? SPARED???
Nevermind.
Problems with pacifists is, someone else has to do their dirty work and they never appreciate it.
I prefer to see him hanged from the point of view of justice.
Actually, if we were going for any real justice, he oughta be shredded. Slowly and publicly, preferably over an extended period of time.
Shred a bit, heal a bit, shred a bit, heal a bit. Lather, rinse, repeat.
But leaving aside the issue of justice for a moment, the real value of seeing Saddam at the end of a rope is what I commented the day of his sentencing: seeing Saddam get his just desserts just might make one or two other would-be tinpot dictators think twice before emulating his career.
Or, to put it conversely, what the Dulleye Llama is arguing for really represents nothing less than the empowerment of those who mass-murder other human beings. The eventual unintended consequences are hardly in line with his ideals of respect for human life.
But it seems a lot of people have difficulty with the concept of respecting the lives of the innocent as contrasted with respecting the lives of those who murder them.
keep in mind that in the events of...
Saddam is spared,
Iraq splits up,
...
Saddam would be very inconvienent to have around,
he might get back into power,
best would be to kill him when it is
possible to do so.
Feed the Deli Llama to Saddam
Why not grant him total consciousness on his deathbed and leave it at that? At least he'd have that going for him, which is nice.
It feels like the whiners are trying to take over the world.