Saddam's hangman

[johnlambert]

How much would you pay to be the hangman at Saddam's execution? I would sacrifice my Army pension + even supply the rope,

[NH]

Nothing. Why? Because we shouldn't be eager about this, we should see it for what it is: punishment for a crime.

Eagerness to kill the man brings you down to his level.

[matt66]

much as i would like to see him hang, i would not put myself forward because a hangman has to be experienced enough to ensure that the person dies from a broken neck and not suffocates to death.

I dont see how killing him will achive anything because the act of his death will result in a few innocent Iraqis being slaughtered by the sunnis. Deaths for no reason.

he should have languished in prison and died an old man.

[johnlambert]

I could'nt care less how low a level I stoop, at least there would be one less merciless murdering basta*d alive in this world

[noxlumos]

john I'd not pay anything for it. I can't imagine why you'd want to be his executioner. If he deserves to die, then let him do so without fanfare, without triumph, almost anonymously, and let us show people the meaning of mercy. People learn by example. Cruelty begets cruelty, lets not show ourselves up as a bloodthirsty vengeful circus.It's ill becoming of people who claim to be the voices of freedom, justice, mercy and reason.

[NikkiB]

I'd much rather hang, draw and quarter the 7/7 bombers and their sympathisers.

[NikkiB]

I typed my reply before reading Noxlumos. I think his/her post pretty much says it best.

[dyli795]

a lot of people are working realy hard (i.e. laying their lives down a few thousand miles from home and family) with the intention of making people who are in general a bit backward and behind in the hey lets get civilised and progress stakes (a few hundred years at least) understand that killing other people because you weren't born into that sect in wrong and gets you nowhere. I think to hang (kill) sadam just shows that for all we do and say about taking life to be wrong, we sometimes have a day off when we can kill somebody and it's o.k. I can't argue he deserves punishment but how do you punish a dead man?
He'd just be made a martyr anyway. We can't put right all the wrong he's caused, but we've stopped any more of it going on. the reason the place has so easily decended into headless chiken mode is because the population have never known freedom and democracy and have been held back hundreds and hundreds of years. now waking up to the present reality must be like fighting your way out of a nightmare. what is logical or understood at a moment like that? we've all had 'em.

[sp1814]

Should the West now turn it's attentions to Nigeria and Pakistan?

Which other leaders should we (and by 'we' I mean the 'democratically elected leaders of a nation we've now foisted a civil war on) have executed?

[sp1814]

Furthermore - hands up who knows why America switched it's attentions from Bin Laden to Hussein?

Why, when 15 out of the 18 9/11 bombers were Egyptian...why wasn't Egypt attacked?

Personally, I'd like to see Mugabe and arrested and tried (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama /1861719.stm). Will it ever happen? Nope - because there's no 'commerical interest' in Nigeria. Big oil companies want a stable political environment in the Middle East to protect their share price.

That's the reason behind the war.

As Jim Royle might say: "Liberation my a*se".

[jedimistress]

Then can we try and execute Bush who has caused the death of at least �655,000 people in Iraq alone.

[jedimistress]

No � sign meant there. Was in work mode!

[Dom Tuk]

Sp1814

only one of the 19 hijackers was egyptian, 15 were saudis.

However i get and agree with the gist of what you are saying.

These days they talk about saddam. Who put saddam in power?. Who mollycoddled him and was a friend to him in the 80s. Who gave him arms to fight the iranians. ?. Dyli it was us.

They are not less civilsed than us. what an insult. They were writing poetry and art when we were living in caves and eating dirt.

[admarlow]

yes dom, and they were spreading chemical weponds on their own people while I was getting broadband installed so I think its safe to say we have at least caught up with them.

[anotheoldgit]

Let's not forget that it is not us (the west) that has tried him, convicted him, or will most likely hang him.

[Mr Tall]

He'll get hanged, civil war will break out, coalition forces will leave - jobs a good un we've liberated Iraq now concentrate on Iran.

[sp1814]

Dom Tuk

You're absolutely right - I actually did know that - just suffering from 'fact-titsis' this morning...the bombers were mostly Saudis, something I gleaned from Farenheit 911 where it was pointed out the links between the Bush family and the Saudi royals.

Sorry to any Egyptian Ab'ers for my error there!

[admarlow]

Tut tut Sp , fact itat - forgivable (just), using a Michael Moore ''Doc'' as a source - unforgivable!!!

[sp1814]

admarlow,

I know, I know, but in this instance, Mr Moore is actually quoting fact (verified by checking company records in the states).

I have no excuses for my own fact breakdown.

But the Saddam thing - I dunno. I'm no expert on the middle east conflict, but I have that same uneasy feeling that I had before the start of the Iraq war...

...it's that feeling you get around this time of year when you realise that Cliff Richard is about to release another bl**dy Christmas single.

[NH]

Cliff Richard Christmas single?
Now that...that is punishment.