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I don't condone anything that he did, but hanging him was just double standards on our part, why should we convict a 'murderer' by murdering him? Surely it's hypocricy and people would learn a greater lesson if her were locked up in a cell to rot rather than if he were killed.
And what will it do for Iraq? Maybe some of his followers will now see him as a martyr, to be showered with virgins in a blissful afterlife. Maybe they too will want to be martyrs... Maybe they will be angry and see the British and American occupation as imperialist, dangerously progressive in some way, maybe they will revolt or maybe they will become completely displaced and then become a group of people marginalised and treated badly by society.
I am yet to believe that this war, nor the capture and execution of Mr Hussein has been an entirely good thing for Iraqi civilians.
He was a prisoner of war on those charges.
For all intensive purposes, he should have been released. Past crimes or not.
A twisted form of justice has been served for the men and women who died at Saddam's command. But what about justice for the many, many more lives lost in the three years that the coalition has occupied Iraq? Who will take responsibility for those deaths?
When history is written, George Bush's war will reign as more bloody than any crime of Saddam. Yet the war was waged for reasons that were never justified.
The trial was an absolute shambles. It should have been taken to the Hague. From the very second Saddam was captured, his fate was sealed. It seems that we've taken a step back to guilty until proven innocent.
No prizes for guessing why the trial was such an unorchestrated mess though. Everybody knows that a dead man is a dangerous man, and Saddam has been bearing politically damaging secrets for years.
You have to fucking laugh don't ya...
Too little, too late. As usual.
I`d say it makes perfect sense to some.
The only charge that wasn`t dropped appears to be the one that didn`t involve Saddam`s former buddies as accomplices.
D-I-Y pardoning.