Posted on 01/02/2007 1:14:17 PM PST by tobyhill
Saddam's execution was justice in fact. The manner in which it was carried out was silly revenge. Ideally, Saddam's execution would have last all of 60 seconds in which he would have been lad into the room and a hood placed over his head. ( No "optional" hood) The death warrant would have been read to him and he would have been dropped. The witnesses remaining silent would have filed out of the room and Saddam's corpse cut down from the gallows. End of story.
The way it was handled turned the entire event in to a Shitte revenge dance party. The Sunni Mideast took note of it...
Except that history has it that Hitler committed suicide.
No.
Christians believe that justice should be separated from revenge, but it's damned hard. It's pretty much human nature to cheer and celebrate when a cruel and wicked tyrant, mass murderer, and killer of your family and friends is executed.
The Italians celebrated when Mussolini was strung up, and who can really blame them? These same liberals who are whining now gloated over Richard Nixon for the next thirty years, and cheered when he died.
Besides, where's their multicultural sensitivity? It's part of the Arab culture for Muslims to taunt their enemies as they kill them. Who are we to criticize their culture? If we can wink at them for stoning women, I should think we might manage to excuse a little crassness at the hanging of one of the world's most evil men.
LOL! Excellent!
some of us were posting (and being flamed) this when the cell phone video (with audio) was first being displayed - the execution was handled poorly. unprofessional, undisciplined - it needed to appear as if a government was executing Saddam, instead it appeared as if a Shiite lynch mob was. Thank goodness the US stepped in and demanded his body be handled properly and taken to Tikrit, or it would have been worse.
Frankly I would not have minded if they dismembered him an inch at a time.
No, revenge is bad when the West does it, or any non-Western country that tries to move to a somewhat civilized society by ridding itself of murderous and barbaric dictators.
Gosh, he didn't hang that long, sheesh.
Saddam had a fair trial...more fair than anyone he executed ever got and who can blame Iraqi's for wanting revenge after Saddam spent decades killing innocent people. If my family had bee tortured and murdered by Saddam, I would certainly want revenge.
I'm torn these days, why would it have been so bad to send him to a "devil's island"
I mean don't get me wrong..but killing the pig was in no way defense.
That hanging was so ugly.
Unlike Carlos the Jackal, Saddam's death instead of imprisonment will not inspire terrorist attack after terrorist attack in order to gain his release.
Sorry, I misunderstood your post. I agree that today's MSM would likely treat Hitler's death with as much regret as they have Saddam's.
But if you listen to the cell phone video of the event..... it sounded a lot more like revenge than it did justice and a state run execution.
agreed
I actually Laughed Out Loud! I could picture that in my head. Too bad it's too long to be a tagline.
It was not ugly enough, IMO. Perhaps they should have tied him to a pole outside and allowed the people he tortured, the families of the murdered, to each cut a piece of his flesh from his body? That may have been ugly.
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