Saddam Hussein Executed

There really is so many brainwashed and ignorant people in this thread...

How can ANYONE say Iraq is in a better position now?! The Country is in absolute TURMOIL and looks to get worse every day!

99% of the people that support it, are brainwashed by the media.

What about Bush, the hypocrite.

The people of Iraq, their country ruined, yet massive tankers of Oil heading straight to the US from Iraqi supplies, while the people in the country have no hot water, no electricity.

Perhaps you people who think Iraq is better off, had better put your thinking caps on and stop being so ignorant.
 
I'm torn over this :(

I think Hussein was an evil, evil man and deserved to face punishment for what he did.

However, I think that Bush and Blair are just as culpable and it disgusts me that they are such hypocrites. If Saddam is a war criminal then as has been said in this thread already, what the hell are they? Waging an illegal war? Surely then with the deaths that this has caused, they had better be watching their backs because with their rationale, they could also be facing the gallows too.

Tony Blair was on holiday when this happened, George Bush knew and went to bed. Trying to distance themselves perhaps?

What really disgusts me is the 'we don't support the death penalty'*
(except in this case). It's so hypocritical and Blair and Bush have led us and Iraq into many of the troubles that we/they are facing now and are just making it worse with every step that they take. Anyone who can't see the danger in having country leaders that bend the rules to suit themselves needs to really sit down and think about it.

Whatever happens the media circus is in full effect and are doing their best to prove that it was a 'fair' trial. It almost certainly wasn't. However it was a far fairer trial than any of his victims got.

As I said, I'm torn. I do think that today will be an important one though, for reasons which we will see in the future.

Antx777 said:
Also, 9 men were put to death in Ipswich in 1555 - for reading/preaching the Bible in English! (Christian protestents) they were "burned by the steak" - and are now called the Ipswich martys - who have a memorial I believe :)
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They weren't alone. There were many Reformists murdered for their faith - during Henry VIII's reign shortly after thousands of Catholics were murdered for theirs (usually doing what they had been instructed to do by the King). The judicial murders increased during the reign of his staunchly Catholic daughter 'Bloody Mary' as she tried to wipe out the Reformists (Protestants).
 
UK FOREIGN SECRETARY MARGARET BECKETT

"The British government does not support the use of the death penalty, in Iraq or anywhere else. We advocate an end to the death penalty worldwide, regardless of the individual or the crime.

"We have made our position very clear to the Iraqi authorities, but we respect their decision as that of a sovereign nation."

I am absolutely sick to death of this government. Only thing they've got right in 9 years is making us a laughing stock. :mad:
 
SeanyK said:
There really is so many brainwashed and ignorant people in this thread...

How can ANYONE say Iraq is in a better position now?! The Country is in absolute TURMOIL and looks to get worse every day!

99% of the people that support it, are brainwashed by the media.

What about Bush, the hypocrite.

The people of Iraq, their country ruined, yet massive tankers of Oil heading straight to the US from Iraqi supplies, while the people in the country have no hot water, no electricity.

Perhaps you people who think Iraq is better off, had better put your thinking caps on and stop being so ignorant.
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To be fair it did take the UK hundreds of years to achieve democracy, so it isn't going to happen overnight in Iraq.
 
Just heard a statement from Bush

"it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on terror."
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Democracy? what they have done (unfair trial and subsequent judicial murder) makes a mockery of 'democracy'.
 
Mik3 said:
These people need a dictator to keep them from killing each other. The only reason we should get involved is if they are developing nukes or ICBM'S and then we should do it from a safe distance.

I'll lose no sleep knowing he's dead though.
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how true. were talking about a race of people that cut peoples hands off for stealing and stone there wifes to death if they have an affair. its not like there the most rational civilised bunch of people, they only understand 1 thing violence and fear, true democracy will never work in iraq
 
stinka said:
how true. were talking about a race of people that cut peoples hands off for stealing and stone there wifes to death if they have an affair. its not like there the most rational civilised bunch of people, they only understand 1 thing violence and fear, true democracy will never work in iraq
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I must admit I've have been thinking about this myself, I can't help feeling that the majority of the Iraqi people are just far too uncivilised/unevolved to cope with a democracy, I still think he desvered to die but it's certainly going to be a hard job for the appointed goverment.
 
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Locrian said:
So when is George Bush's scheduled hanging then?
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It isn't, becuase he did not directly and implicity order the murder of many civilians. You know this really, but it gets in the way of the current fashion to think the UK and US are Murderers and that Sadaam was a lovely bloke.
 
Morlan said:
He gassed a few hundred people, shock horror. What an evil man :rolleyes:
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He deliberately gassed a few hundred civilians, infact, he implicitly ordered the gassing of those civilians. You don't think that makes him evil? :confused:
 
are we all pretending that 4,5,600 years ago we didn't behave like that?

Thousands of people were beheaded or burnt at the stake for their beliefs. Women were legally killed for committing adultery - people were executed for simply saying what they believed or even what they thought. Thieves had their hands amputated, people were disembowelled and their internal organs removed while they were still alive as a punishment for something that most times they weren't even guilty of as justice was virtually unheard of. The entire Kingdom was ruled by power and terror and free speech or thought was punishable by a cruel and violent death.

What makes us so different?

It takes a long time to achieve democracy and you can't ignore the fact that the UK was just as bad, if not worse than other countries all those years ago.
 
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