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To: elli1
Conversely, why should you be bothered that I have a different view of & respect for the delivery of justice than you do?

I am not bothered at all. This forum is not appropriate for lionizing and celebrating the evil of the Hussein regime.

4,735 posted on 12/29/2006 9:46:39 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
This forum is not appropriate for lionizing and celebrating the evil of the Hussein regime.

And I do neither. But I do not see the appointed time for an execution to be whooping it up and jumping for joy either. Justice was served and rightly so. But do mere observers have a right to rejoice, make jokes, etc.? That is reserved for the victims of the criminal. Joviality? Joking? Suggesting a dead pool for the time of his death? Cartoonish characterizations? This was not so far different than the civilians sitting in the stands at the Colosseum cheering the death of a criminal who had not personally affected their lives

No, civilized society may have offered a good riddance and then a time of remembrance for his victims or a time to look within ourselves to see how he came to power and to ensure it did not happen again. But this was...words escape me. I think it does make a very important statement on where our society is. Unfortunately that statement will escape many as well.

Flame away. I have no sorrow for a tyrant's death. However I cannot say the same on the apparent direction we are headed

4,874 posted on 12/30/2006 7:19:57 AM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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