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HT gearhead · 2006-12-27, 09:26 AM

Boy they don't mess around over there do they. Well he had it coming any way.
Good riddance to rubbish.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...021038-ap.html

Danster · 2006-12-27, 11:34 AM

I wonder if All Jazeera will have the "LIVE" video of the hanging? Afterall, they did have the videos of the GI's being beheaded.

filper · 2006-12-27, 11:53 AM

I guess he's Shiite-outta-luck.

Mexicanuck · 2006-12-27, 11:53 AM

Well this is just going from bad to worse, isn't it? Hussein is now going to be made into a martyr who will live for decades, rather than just become a ragged old man who becomes irrelevant in prison like Manual Noriega.

I thought this news item was interesting in the context of what I heard repeatedly on the news this morning about the death of Gerald Ford. There were repeated comments about his granting a pardon to the recently resigned Richard Nixon. The comments were consistently that it was the right decision for three reasons.

First, Nixon could not receive a fair trial anywhere in the US. Second, pursuing a criminal trial would have been very difficult for the American people after the long period of Watergate scandal. Third, putting former presidents on trial would be "unseemly" as that is something that only happens in "banana republics".

I'm not suggesting that Saddam Hussein should be walking the beaches of Santa Barbara, but it is interesting to see how the Americans deal with their own leaders and how they dispose of others' leaders. And let's be honest, Hussein's trial was as free from American political influence as was the non-trial of Richard Nixon.

eljay · 2006-12-27, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel

"Saddam Hussein has received due process and legal rights that he denied the Iraqi people for so long...

...particularly during those years that we were validating his actions by affirming and strengthening our diplomatic ties with him, and supporting him and his regime."

Theatrical "justice" triumphs; true Justice suffers another slow slice.

Nanuuk · 2006-12-27, 08:04 PM

They shouldn't bother hanging the SOB. March him out the back door and shoot him. Already his Batthist party is threatening the U.S., and their allies. Sound a bit like Al-Qaeda doesn't it?

JohnnyCanuck · 2006-12-27, 08:11 PM

Nice quote eljay. Not to mention you're entirely correct in the absence of American accountability. The real problem however with the White House view, is that Saddam Hussein received anything but a fair trial. With lawyers and judges being killed at every turn, it is hard to imagine that (without imputing any motive to anyone involved) he received an impartial and fair hearing.

Not that I doubt his guilt. I don't. And, notwithstanding my disgust for the death penalty, I agree with MexiCanuck ... he will be martyred if he is executed. The deepening civil war will only get worse if the Sunni militias can now look to him not as a conquered leader, but as a martyr and a hero.

Sirius Guy · 2006-12-27, 08:18 PM

Yeah I really wish the Communists had won the cold war and America had folded like a cheap suit instead of the USSR, the world would have been a much better place.

Bad enough we needed Russia's help in getting rid of Hitler, you can blame that warmonger Churchill for that one guys.
Stalin and Hussein were much the same, allies in times of war but at least Hussein will get his justice. Too bad the Russian people didn't get a chance to execute their former leader as well.

2006-12-27, 09:26 AM	#1
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filper Veteran Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oakville, ON Posts: 2,887	I guess he's Shiite-outta-luck. __________________ simplicity is genius...

2006-12-27, 11:53 AM	#4
Mexicanuck Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cowichan Bay, BC Posts: 1,381	Well this is just going from bad to worse, isn't it? Hussein is now going to be made into a martyr who will live for decades, rather than just become a ragged old man who becomes irrelevant in prison like Manual Noriega. I thought this news item was interesting in the context of what I heard repeatedly on the news this morning about the death of Gerald Ford. There were repeated comments about his granting a pardon to the recently resigned Richard Nixon. The comments were consistently that it was the right decision for three reasons. First, Nixon could not receive a fair trial anywhere in the US. Second, pursuing a criminal trial would have been very difficult for the American people after the long period of Watergate scandal. Third, putting former presidents on trial would be "unseemly" as that is something that only happens in "banana republics". I'm not suggesting that Saddam Hussein should be walking the beaches of Santa Barbara, but it is interesting to see how the Americans deal with their own leaders and how they dispose of others' leaders. And let's be honest, Hussein's trial was as free from American political influence as was the non-trial of Richard Nixon. __________________ "Don't quote me on this." - Anonymous

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2006-12-27, 08:04 PM	#6
Nanuuk Veteran Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Calgary, AB Shaw Exo Posts: 4,811	They shouldn't bother hanging the SOB. March him out the back door and shoot him. Already his Batthist party is threatening the U.S., and their allies. Sound a bit like Al-Qaeda doesn't it?

2006-12-27, 08:11 PM	#7
JohnnyCanuck Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 4,645	Nice quote eljay. Not to mention you're entirely correct in the absence of American accountability. The real problem however with the White House view, is that Saddam Hussein received anything but a fair trial. With lawyers and judges being killed at every turn, it is hard to imagine that (without imputing any motive to anyone involved) he received an impartial and fair hearing. Not that I doubt his guilt. I don't. And, notwithstanding my disgust for the death penalty, I agree with MexiCanuck ... he will be martyred if he is executed. The deepening civil war will only get worse if the Sunni militias can now look to him not as a conquered leader, but as a martyr and a hero.

2006-12-27, 08:18 PM	#8
Sirius Guy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 638	Yeah I really wish the Communists had won the cold war and America had folded like a cheap suit instead of the USSR, the world would have been a much better place. Bad enough we needed Russia's help in getting rid of Hitler, you can blame that warmonger Churchill for that one guys. Stalin and Hussein were much the same, allies in times of war but at least Hussein will get his justice. Too bad the Russian people didn't get a chance to execute their former leader as well.