Al Nakba wrote:

send him to Mr. Wu..

Another senseless comment from an idiot top poster

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beachshark1@yahoo.com wrote:

The first verdicts are forthcoming from the US-orchestrated trials of

Not true

Saddam Hussein. He will be found guilty. We all know that. He was a
bad man. We all know that. But he has never been a tyrant of the
worst kind. Not a Hitler.

No- he was worse than Hitler

I hope that he's allowed to live out his natural years in a prison in
his homeland.

WHY?

Killing him seems bloodthirsty.

Not as bloodthirsty as he was

He's now not a threat to anybody. He never deserved the attack and
capture in the first place, really, for, as he said, he had no weapons
of mass destruction aimed for anyone... and he's lost his two closest
sons, wicked as the may have been, his sons, his sons. So, a bit of
human compassion isn't out of line here.

Is that why there was dancing in the streets of
Baghdad when the verdict came down?

Despite his situation, Saddam has remained dignified and brave,
frankly,traits Americans admire.

Not "dignified" -- ARROGANT

Let him live. A life in prison in his homeland.

The Iraqi judges in an Iraqi court ruled otherwise.
Who are you to dispute them?

The Jerusalem Post editors asked its columnists, "This time, only
your thoughts on this historic day in which former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging."
For the other replies, see
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378330240&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter.


Here is mine:

November 5, 2006
Daniel Pipes
The Jerusalem Post

What to do with captured dictators? This has become an occasional
problem for the U.S. government at least since the defeat of the Axis
in 1945. Fortunately, Hitler committed suicide and partisans dispatched
Mussolini. But the emperor of Japan was given a free pass and remained
in office until 1989.

Two dozen high officials of the Nazi regime were sentenced and judged
at the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46, with a number of them hanged; just
imagine those proceedings had Hitler been the 25th defendant. The far
less evil Manuel Noriega of Panama has been since 1989 in an American
jail cell, where he serves a 40-year sentence for drug-trafficking .

In contrast to all these cases, the Bush administration distanced
itself from the disposition of Saddam Hussein by leaving his fate in
Iraqi hands. His Iraqi judges just sentenced Saddam and two aides to
death for their role in the massacre of 148 Iraqis in the town of
Dujail in 1982.

This circumstance involves several dilemmas:

Allowing a dictator to rot in jail creates the fewest political
problems but denies justice to those who suffered his oppression,
whereas executing him provides the needed emotional closure but also
may provoke further political turmoil.

Permitting a dictator to die a relatively painless death (by hanging or
firing squad) is the decent thing to do; but submitting him to the same
torture he inflicted on others would both provide psychological release
for his victims and serve as a deterrent to other despots.

Turning a dictator over for judgment by co-nationals may save the
Americans grief but at the expense of exacerbating local tensions (in
this case, Sunni-Shi`i relations).

There are no good answers.