Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

[...of J.Temperance]

Poll question: Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

I think that he should. Because of Saddam Hussein, hundreds of thousands of people are dead, the man is a monster and what he did are crimes against humanity.

I was against the Iraq war and I'm still against the Iraq war. I'm pro-Death Penalty, as most on DU know. Saddam Hussein is a mass murderer, and like any mass murderer he should be executed.

This is just my opinion. Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

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[Stand and Fight]

1. ......

[sam sarrha]

2. just throw a getting out of jail party for him in a Curdish village

[boobooday]

3. Nope.

Not a good idea.

First of all, I am against the death penalty, but even if I supported it, I would think that this is a really stupid thing to do.

Perhaps if a World Tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity, but then, most of the world does not support the death penalty, so the only way to do it is for the U.S. to assign the penalty and carry it out, either directly or through Iraqi proxies.

In either case, it isn't going to do much but give some people that little rush of revenge.

It just reinforces the world's belief that we are an aggressive, unilateral, arrogant country, preaching peace and justice, but practicing violence and vengeance.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Nah, he and bush should be tied together

and set loose on the streets of Baghdad without their guns, minions, and without a dinar in their pockets. Let the people there decide what should happen to them

[jobycom]

5. No, because I'm against the death penalty, and because the trial is a joke

Hussein was not arrested by his own country, he was invaded and captured by a foreign power who is now trying him by hand-picking a court that will vote to execute him. That's not a trial, it's murder.

If he had been overthrown by his own nation, and they had put him on trial, I'd still be opposed to the death penalty, but I'd at least feel they had a right to try him.

And if Hussein is guilty of atrocities, then so are the leaders we've appointed there, all the way up to Bush and Rumsfield. We have had to do the same things to maintain control as Hussein was doing. We've killed hundreds of thousands, we've used illegal chemical weapons, we've targeted civilians, we've tortured and executed without a trial... Name something Hussein has done that we haven't done to the Iraqis. If Hussein deserves execution, so do Bush and Rumsfield. Although I will say, I hope both men get the same type of fair trial Hussein is getting.

[YOY]

6. What good would that do?

Wouldn't bring anyone back. Wouldn't heal any wounds. It would make the US look like an executioner. It might offer closure to some people, but closure is a hollow emotion in my estimation.

It might allow him to regain power if he lives and should ever be freed from prison.

It might make him some weird martyr if the kill him.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. I want to see a duel.

Saddam vs. Chalabi.

[maxsolomon]

8. he shouldn't, but he will be

alive he is too dangerous to the new iraqi state: a rallying point for sunnis, and, if released before his dotage, a viable candidate for the presidency.

he should be kept in a cage in a pubic square for the rest of his life. humilitaion.

[SaveElmer]

9. No...but...

He should be forced to aid in the excavation of every mass grave that is found!!!

[AtomicKitten]

10. and so should Bush I

[enigma000]

11. its up to the Iraqis n/t