Better question: How much would you have paid to pull the lever at the gallows?
I don't think it will make things worse there.
38% yes
62% no
Oh course the execution won't make things better or worse. Saddam has had little or no bearing on the goings on in Iraq for some time. (if you haven't noticed).
Why would I freep the poll and lie to myself?
I don't think this will make one difference one way or another. What a stupid poll. I won't even vote for this. I mean do you want us to say yes? I mean come on so what we are saying is next week because Sadam is gone everything will be hunky dorey. I don't buy that for a minute. I also won't say no because I don't think that because Sadam is gone that their will be this big sudden killing spree either.
Probably not, given that the executioners were chanting Moqtada al-Sadr's name.
It helps improve the world.
Yes
Saddam's execution should have a profound psychological effect in direct relation to the death grip he had on Iraq.
Whether this will convince some to lay down their arms or embolden others to take up arms remains questionable.
All that really matters at this point is that his victims have seen Justice.
After watching the execution, I've come to the conclusion Iraq is a lost cause. There was no dignity, no decorum, no honor- just a bunch of hooded thugs in leather jackets who looked like a few slugs they picked up off the street. Then there was that little homage to that scumbag Sadr who's been responsible for the deaths of our boys over there. Pull out, let them at each other's throats and, if it becomes a hotbed of terrorists- blow it off the face of the earth.
It will make tinpot dictators think twice before they try to fight proxy wars against the United States through the use of terrorist organizations.
Depends. It's good the old bastard is gone, but were his guards not chanting "Moqtada! Moqtada!", I'd be a little more optimistic about where Iraq is heading.
Who cares? At least the b@st@rd is gone.
Results: 488 Votes; 46.9% Yes; 53.1% No!
the execution was handled poorly. this is going to play very badly amongst the Sunnis. It plays not as if a legitimate government hung Saddam, but rather a Shiite lynch mob did.
BUMP!!
Saddam's execution and the situation on the ground in Iraq:
It can't hurt things a bit. The Ba'athists are ALREADY mad at us, but with no clear-cut leader to re-emerge from their ranks, they are cut off from their real reason for continuing the resistance. Saddam is not going to be pardoned and freed now.
As for the rest of the uproar going on - that had little or nothing to do with the execution of Saddam. That is local gang warfare going on, with tacit supply coming from acorss the border somewhere, a proxy war between Saudi Arabia on one side, and Syria/Iran on the other. Much like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 was a battle between international Communism, including their sympathizers in the US and Great Britain on one side, and the Fascists of Italy and Nazis of Germany on the other side. Most of the weapons and tactics put into use in the early phases of WW II were tested out there first.
What do you think??