Comments on: Saddam Hussein hanged

By: brad lloyd

brad lloyd — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:14:35 +0000

paki

By: Sandrine

Sandrine — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:08:08 +0000

Saddam got what deserved.

By: thiago murilo

thiago murilo — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:51:44 +0000

saddam hussein is a great leader…he’s a power hand in iraq and a hero of child

By: RAN

RAN — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:56:59 +0000

What does the bible teach us in the ten commandments. We are not allowed to kill someone. We could have leave Saddam in jail for the rest of his life.

By: badri ojha

badri ojha — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:49:20 +0000

I dont favour capital punishment

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By: The Lounsbury

The Lounsbury — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:45:37 +0000

Well, at least we have evidence from the comments above that idiotic navel gazing whinging on is not exclusively an American blog commentariat phenomena.

Moucharraf is a bastard, but nowhere in Sadaam’s league and not every bloody time Dictator X is mentioned does your own hobby horse have to be mentioned. Ahmed seems just bloody delusional - decapitated body mate? Bloody loon.

By: zazou

zazou — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:03:08 +0000

No one is suggesting that Musharref and plenty of others, I might add, let’s not forget our fun little friends in the Stans, are petty criminals- but to look at Saddam on their level is to either evince a profound misunderstanding of the intensity of his regime or to so belittle the result of his activities that hudood/habouz practices (and in some cases,complete nonsense in the way they are applied) are considered to be on par.
There is a time and a place to address the Musharrefs- but this is not it. Now is the time to ponder Saddam, those who made him, those who abbetted him, and those who staged the last act for their own ends.

By: SP

SP — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:15:18 +0000

Right, because killing tens of thousands of people according to their sect/ethnicity in addition to being a brutal dictator = calling a spade a spade, while a semi-brutal dictator who inherited the hudood nonsense from the previous dictator (and by the way has recently repealed the rape witness requirements in Parliament) is the biggest evil the world ever faced. Don’t get me wrong, I detest Musharraf, but to say he’s worse than Saddam is laughable.

By: Ashish Mehta

Ashish Mehta — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:55:50 +0000

I would disagree if Saddam is painted as brutal and a tyrant as is seen in this forum. Why has no one given a thought to the Baluchs in Pakistan and what is happening to them, thanks to Musharraf, a new tyrant that every one has to look at. Just because Saddam was bold enough to call a sapade a spade, he does not become any worse than Musharraf of Pakistan who calls for FOUR witnesses from a victim of RAPE in his country. This is a father of a man who is settled in USA and it is really a shame that he still lives in the stone age.

While I do not wish to condone all that Saddam did but I express my surprise at the myopic view people take in lokking at likes of Saddam and ignoring the likes of Musharrafs.

By: zazou

zazou — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:51:29 +0000

I would have liked to see him at teh Hague, but I reallize their jurisdiction over Iraq was limited. I also think the timing was articifical.On the US news last night, Nightline, to be precise, the Eid connection (Sunni) was mentioned. The otherthnag I found interesting about Nightline’s presentation was the sense of negative space (or maybe that was only in my head)- the idea that Saddam swung for a relatively small crime- the presentation invited comparisions with Fallujah, the sense that Saddam’s death squads summarily executed people brings to mind maurading marines. At least he took some responsibility for what he had done. I’m still waiting for Bush and co to go before the Hague, but that won’t happen, either. We had a royal snit fit and pulled out: a pretext, I suspect, to prevent charges being prepared against a sitting US president.

By: sardony

sardony — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:05:58 +0000

Show the complete execution of Saddam. I want to see the great dictator twitch. He had the opportunity to do great and achieve what no man has ever achieved. But, he decided to murder, torture, rape, and all that impressive action. Bye Bye Piglet, swing low . lol

By: Freedofighter

Freedofighter — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:59:35 +0000

Kowalski - I agree 100% but a fair, international-standard trial exposing Saddam’s crimes as well as his relatiions with the West is the last thing Bush would have allowed

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:09:39 +0000

The entire trial including the hanging was a farcical and illegal event. The parading of his decapitated body was a direct violation of the Geneva conventions. Corruption, murder, banditry and death squads are the hallmarks of the new Iraqi government. The trial was rigged so that he would only face the charges bought against him for the dujali killings. The Iran/Iraq war that was a much bigger crime leading to the deaths of over one million people was completely ignored likewise the halajba killings.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:26:18 +0000

It would have been probably impossible to try him at the ICC because a) the ICC had and has no jurisdiction over Iraq, and b) it dosen’t have jurisdiction over events that occurred prior to July 1, 2002. They still could have created a legitimate international tribunal, similar to those for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, rather than the kangaroo court they slapped together.

By: Kowalski

Kowalski — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:10:46 +0000

How about wishing that he had been sent to the Hague had a judicially correct trial, were all his crimes were looked at and his cosy links with certain countries and individuals exposed. Then he would have rotted away in a jail cell. Because saying I wish they had just shot him just exacerbates the orientalist stereotype of the Arab and eastern world and well it would be nice if we could show the world, guess what we are not the savages you think we are!

By: Alawna

Alawna — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:25:56 +0000

will you be happy when betrayers (puppets) are killed immediately or after a lengthy trial?

By: robin

robin — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:20:00 +0000

have you seen the TV footage from al-iraqiya of saddam being led to the gallows? it’s playing on most channels.

By: SP

SP — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:20:13 +0000

I guess the Americans wanted the trial to be an “Iraqi” process for legitimacy, as if this bit of symbolism would help. It’s emblematic of the whole US adventure in Iraq, actually, they’d rather not have handed the trial over to cheese-eating multilateralists for fear that information that came out of an ICJ trial might hold the US to account or constrain it in any way.

Much is being made of the decision to hang him right before the start of the Sunni Eid al-Adha but two days before the Shia Eid begins. Coincidence or symbolic?