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Problem solved.
I knew someone would ask this.
One where just petty criminals go, like a local sort of jail, not a huge security place.
Re open Alcatraz and send him away there on his own
Preferentially he should be tried by the UN for whose supposed dictat this invasion was launched in the first place. But then the Bush admin has disregarded the consistency of that initial claim so many times already, I suspect they will handpick the judges or let their CPA puppets do it and try him and execute him right there in Baghdad.
Who here would support this?
Any intervention by the American Government no. How about some sort of international thing?
Or no? Isn't Saddams death convinient? Should he rather live on in a cell, probably recieving better rights than most due to his contacts?
With his mentality, only death will cause him to feel defeat.
I still think death would be an easy way out though, i dont want the Americans heavily involved either, as they'll probably kill him too. A fair trial in Iraq will also lead to death though...hmmm
The religious moslems would kill him themselves if they could...
He will be regarded as a martyr by a group who're awfully displaced. The ones who're not associated to any muslim acknowledged religious group. And not to any group who're politically sane.
So some will view him as a martyr, so fucking what? I rarely support death penalty, but this guy will only swallow his pride once he faces death. Until then he'll still believe that he has a chance of returning to rule Iraq.
Consequences...
Killing Saddam, won't make me even a tiny bit like him, it'll just be a punishment which he deserves.
The day I start showing resemblance to him, is the day I commit mass murder for fun and rejoice in it. Before then, he's still in a league reserved for people of the lowest kind.
What are people proposing we do with him - execute our enemy!
:rolleyes:
The important thing is that we have seen him humiliated as has everyone else, what he thinks is irrelevant..........
Personally, as I have said I'd like the Iraqis to decide, but I hope they decide not to kill him.
If you can't see the difference between an instance of him killing without remorse for fun and as harsh as possible, and him being excuted as a punishment, as a stop for his killings then there's no point in me discussing this at all.
Consider also the harm Saddam has done to other nations, it is not just the Iraqis who have been harmed.
We tried the Nazis at Nuremberg, why not do a similar thing here, an international trila held in Iraq?
This is the man who kept saying he shall die defending his country against the American invader. That he was not afraid of death and that all Iraqis who died fighting the Americans would be martyrs. He's betrayed his own words and been shown as a coward.
A death penalty would at least give him and his supporters some minor victory. But the worst thing you could do to him was to lock him for life. No glorious death, no martyrdom. Just left to rot inside a prison cell while the world promptly forgets about him. That's the worse thing you could do to his pride. Killing him won't make him swallow his pride- on the contrary.
If we try him in the Hauge, the trial will probably continue on for years, with no conclusive end, like Milosevich.
The death penalty should definitely be enforced, and Saddam should hang painfully. We are not on the same level by killing him as he is, having killed his enemies, as we haven't committed the atrocities that he has. We would be killing him as a suitable punishment that he totally deserves, after mindlessly mass murdering so many people. If I was an Iraqi citizen, I would feel more 'closure,' safe in the knowledge that he was dead, rather than sitting in a jail cell still alive, with the possibility (however remote) that he might get out again.
Let him watch as he sees his people forget him, and his life is slowly sapped away.
Alternatively bring him here and put him on a state pension, it's pretty much the same thing.
.....God I'm funny
We also tried the Japanese.
And the death penalty applied in both instances.
I am pretty sure it didn't actually, i think the nazis were sent to prison, not killed.............
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html
But those were earlier times, Uk still had the penalty, I would imagine most of the nations that have now abolished had it in the 40s as well.............
correct
Oct 1st 1946 Major War Criminals trial - 11 sentenced to death (10 executed - Goering killed himself)
April 10th 1947 - 14 of the defendants (members of mobile killing units) are sentenced to death
Aug 21st 1947 - As the doctor's trial concludes 7 nazi doctors are sentenced to death
the source
nuremberg trial
Obviously a number of people were not found guilty and a large number were not sentanced to death
I mean, we all know he's guilty of many things and all that, but after the Axis of Idiots have been saying how Iraq is capable of holding a fair trial, how they have full confidence in the Iraqi justice system, and how it is very important that a fair trial is given, it'd be nice if they shut their mouths and stop interfering.
As a matter of fact, if the trial was to be completely and utterly impartial and fair, Saddam would get off on the basis that it'd be impossible for him to have a fair trial anywhere, especially with the Mad Texan and his poodle controlling everything in Iraq and the world press rejoicing in the capture of the evil tyrant.
Oh the irony!
You ARE aware - are you not - that Hussein had previously been sentenced to death, in Iraq? Decades ago...
What for? and when?
What? SH is a guilty as f*** regardless of any intervention by US/uk, the average (non Baathist) knows that so does the World. GWB is a saint by comparison