Saddam Hussein is dead.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:38 am

Deserved every second of it.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:04 am

snakejknight wrote:Good things could come out of this war, i'm not happy to say that not many have, but at least we got rid of Suddam.

Could. Good things COULD come out of this war. I want my Weapons of Mass Distraction, I want my al-Qaida links, I want my smoking gun. Wasn't this war supposed to be really fast? A few months at most?

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:43 am

Your government didn't take into consideration the sheer size and population of a whole country. In fact I don't think they took into consideration many things, but that's not related to this.

They didn't even find any weapons of mass destruction either... lame. Waste of time and good soldiers. Regardless of the war though, Saddam needed taking down.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:46 am

If this turns into a war discussion thread, it's being locked.

Enough.

jks · Post by **jks** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:14 pm

shadowkhas wrote:
snakejknight wrote:Good things could come out of this war, i'm not happy to say that not many have, but at least we got rid of Suddam.
Could. Good things COULD come out of this war. I want my Weapons of Mass Distraction, I want my al-Qaida links, I want my smoking gun. Wasn't this war supposed to be really fast? A few months at most?

What we are doing over there is something called nation building, something we did in Japan after WWII. According to my history teacher most attempts at nation building require at least 10 years of occupation. What I think we are doing over there, aside from fueling Bush's personal agenda, is trying to create a reverse-domino effect, where in the cold war terms it would be a communist nation converting all its neighbors into communism, whereas here its with democracy. Whether or not this is planned I don't know, but I don't think it will work. One underestimates the atrocities another will commit in the name of his god.

jdwashere · Post by **jdwashere** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:24 pm

Hey I'm all for Saddam being killed but hung? I think they should have done some thing slightly different, but then again... he did deserve it. Oh well.

Dan!! · Post by **Dan!!** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:11 pm

jks wrote:aside from fueling Bush's personal agenda

Heh, fueling.

iGeo wrote:
Dan!! wrote:What gives anyone the right to kill another person?
It's not someone simply killing another person, it's society, not one person. The jury represent society, and their decision is final. Saddam was rightly killed, murder for murder isn't right, but murder for murder x100000? Sounds fair to me.

My whole point there was that murder is wrong, no matter who or why.

TunesRus90 · Post by **TunesRus90** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:00 pm

Welll I'll be upfront with my opinion. I am for the death penalty. I believe almost everyone in this thread believes that crimes deserve a punishment, so can you please tell me why you feel its better for someone to spend the rest of their life in jail than to just die? I am not for painful gruesome deaths, I support quick/painless methods. I just think that crime deserves a punishment, and I think its better to just let them die quickly than to force them to spend the rest of their life in prison, and have citizens pay to keep them alive.

CE_AI · Post by **CE_AI** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:06 pm

I don't think he deserved it, and I also don't think they really killed him anyway.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:10 pm

CE_AI wrote:I don't think he deserved it

I'm all for the death penalty, if you take somebodies life, in this case thousands, you should have to have your life taken away. Seriously, there should be a worse punishment. I say get hanged, bring him back to life, and kill him a different way each time. I also feel arsonists should be burned to death...but that's of topic.

I also don't think they really killed him anyway.

They did.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:37 pm

CE_AI wrote:I don't think he deserved it, and I also don't think they really killed him anyway.

It's totally a government conspiracy/coverup.

Zone 117 · Post by **Zone 117** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:42 pm

Lol...

But yeah, he defiantly deserved worse.

Battery · Post by **Battery** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:44 pm

yea i thought he should have just had life in prisn, let the people in jail punish him, i didnt think he should die, he was a dictator, and he had a lot of power, just like most dictators, they want to do somethinhg with that power, whipe out enemies, eliminate a race off the planet.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:27 pm

I bet he wanted to see 07 before he died.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:42 pm

I bet he didn't want to die.

LoneWolf · Post by **LoneWolf** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:42 pm

He deserved to die. He should've gotten hung off of one of his statues. he killed millions of people, i think that he should've died, although he'll be roting in hell for an enternity...

CE_AI · Post by **CE_AI** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:25 pm

LoneWolf wrote:He deserved to die. He should've gotten hung off of one of his statues. he killed millions of people, i think that he should've died, although he'll be roting in hell for an enternity...

Can you name any of those people...didn't think so. I dont think he deserved to die at all, before he was removed from power the country wasn't too bad, sure it was a dictatorship and if you didn't follow the laws they would kill you, but there wasn't car bombs going off every 10 seconds, our troops wouldn't get killed over there. If they put him in charge he would straighten out the people and run the Al-Queida out pretty d*mn fast.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:15 pm

Can you name any of those people...didn't think so.

Have you by chance heard of the Kurds? He ordered them to be gassed, killing thousands (there is very disturbing pictures that I'd rather not link to...Wiki it.)

I dont think he deserved to die at all, before he was removed from power the country wasn't too bad, sure it was a dictatorship and if you didn't follow the laws they would kill you

That sounds pretty bad to me.

Dan!! · Post by **Dan!!** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:39 pm

LoneWolf wrote:He deserved to die. He should've gotten hung off of one of his statues. he killed millions of people, i think that he should've died, although he'll be roting in hell for an enternity...

Millions?!

Locke · Post by **Locke** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:29 pm

TunesRus90 wrote:I think its better to just let them die quickly than to force them to spend the rest of their life in prison, and have citizens pay to keep them alive.

Contrary to popular belief, it is cheaper to keep someone in jail thier entire lifes than it is to execute them. It costs millions to exectute someone, but only a few thousand a year to keep them in jail.
http://www.mindspring.com/~phporter/econ.html