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I doubt it. If they carry the sentence through, he'll become a martyr to xhis supporters and the place will erupt into even more violence.
I don't believe in capital punishment but, notwithstanding that, I think his life should be spared to save others which may be lost in the bloodshed that will follow.
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The best thing to do would be to exile him or put him in Jail in the US - keeping him in Iraq - makes him as a rallying point and killing him makes him a martyr. I must confess that I feel sorry for Saddam.
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Kill him = martyr
Jail him = a demand for potential hostage takers.
What ever the US/Iragi government did with him would be problematc for them. |
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I think a jail in America would be a death sentance for him anyway. Or would cost so much to maintain. However i believe this to be the only answer because , as has been said the last thing the soldiers in Iraq need is a force with a marytr to fight for.
Also hanging is a like for like punishment, how long will it be till you see hangings being carried out on hostages in Iraq?
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I don't believe in capital punishment but, notwithstanding that, I think his life should be spared |
So it's alright for British soldiers to die but not the evil Saddam?
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I must confess that I feel sorry for Saddam. |
That's probably because you're Scottish. You lot are Liberal hand-wringers.
You feel sorry for Saddam? Pity you don't feel the same way about the thousands he butchered, tortured and gassed to death.
Let him swing, I say. He'll get no sympathy from me.
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| Avatar wrote: | | The best thing to do would be to exile him or put him in Jail in the US - keeping him in Iraq - makes him as a rallying point and killing him makes him a martyr. I must confess that I feel sorry for Saddam. |
Why should he be jailed in the US when his sentencing was nothing to do with the Americans? It was the Iraqis - thanks to their new democracy and laws (courtesy of the British and Americans) - who tried him and passed their sentence on him.
If the Iraqis - now living in a democracy - say he should hang, what has it to do with you? Iraq is a sovereign country and we have no right to tell them what punishments they should carry out on one of their own people.
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Hey blackleaf you objectionable troll where do you think he got the poison gas from in the first place? - your own f***ing country boy!
"Iraq is a sovereign country and we have no right to tell them what punishments they should carry out on one of their own people"
It was a sovereign country before the invasion as well moron. |
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I was about to point out the flaws in your er "logic" there Blackleaf, but I see elidir has done so allready  Presumably though you think Bush and Blair should hang aswell?
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| Morph wrote: | I think a jail in America would be a death sentance for him anyway. Or would cost so much to maintain. However i believe this to be the only answer because , as has been said the last thing the soldiers in Iraq need is a force with a marytr to fight for.
Also hanging is a like for like punishment, how long will it be till you see hangings being carried out on hostages in Iraq? |
How about a jail in Britain - we manage to keep Al-Magrahi (sp?) - I'm sure he wouldn't mind a cell-mate.
I don't agree with the death penalty and I believe that it would have been best to put Saddam before the court at the Hague rather than some jumped-up 'special tribunal' in a war-torn country. |
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"I don't agree with the death penalty and I believe that it would have been best to put Saddam before the court at the Hague rather than some jumped-up 'special tribunal' in a war-torn country."
Exactly isn't that what they did with Slobbydan Milosovich or whoever? - it seems incredibly dodgy - first of all to put him on trial in US/UK occupied Iraq and then for him to be sentenced just before US mid-term elections.. hmm - somethings not right there.
"How about a jail in Britain"
He'd be out on parole within a couple of years.
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