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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.

As I said in a earlier post to somebody else, it is a solemn thing to have to do, to meet out justice by killing somebody.

That said, it's also worth celebrating. Saddam's death marks a point forward where he could never be a threat again.

Victims celebrate. So do people who can imagine what it must be like to be a victim. It's our moral obligation to walk in somebody else's shoes -- not to sit back and say that only the victim can imagine what it must be like.

Back in WWII we had to kill many Japanese before they finally surrendered. It was August 1945. The emperor of Japan surrendered.

Saddam never did surrender. He was defiant until the end. So it was his execution that ended the threat of Saddam and both solemn and celebratory thoughts are in order.

I'm sure there were many a solemn contemplation back in August of '45.

There was also celebration.

Appropriately so.

Appropriately so.

Ah, but those pictures were taken at the celebration for the end of the war weren't they? Either V-E or V-J day. In both cases, the celebration that war was over, people were coming home, etc. The war was over, peace was achieved. If your view were to hold, you would be able to provide widespread evidence celebrating the death of Mussolini (outside of Italy and the surrounding areas) or the celebration here in these US when the Nuremburg executions were completed.

I'm sure there were many a solemn contemplation back in August of '45. There was also celebration.

And I'm almost certain there weren't video cameras covering the dropping of atomic weapons with followups on the ground either. I'm also quite sure that the majority of the citizens of the respective states had little to no clue, or grasp, of exactly what the bomb did. But I doubt 1945 society didn't have almost immediate access to pictures of the dead either.

We have hardened as a society. It takes more to shock us, and therefore we are excited or happy at things today that would have shocked our ancestors. That's all I'm saying