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richa mathur
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Saddam Hussein
December 31, 2006 - 08:34 AM
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The execution of Saddam Hussein on Saturday morning is the right decision by Iraqi government. Saddam Hussein was not just involved in 1982 Dujail massacre, his hands were also red blooded from other humanity crimes as shown by different news sources. Everyone knows that he got what he deserved.
He is stereotyped as one of the cruelest persons on this earth but we must not forget that this cruel person was also one of the hardest working persons on this earth. Hussein‘s journey from rags to riches was not a one night journey. He did a painstaking hard work in this journey, crossed all the hazards and became the President of Iraq.
He was the king and he accepted the death sentence with that grace only. His burial in his home town is Iraqis only way to show there respect towards the person who was once their President.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
December 31, 2006 - 11:52 AM
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He should not have been executed. Keeping him alive would be a must, to let him see his legacy being annhiliated before him and to let him see a changing world... Yeah well, imprisonment for life would be just as good.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
December 31, 2006 - 03:54 PM
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may be his execution was not the decision made by Iraqi Government but Uncle Bush behind the curtain.....
yes life imprioned would have been good...
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Re: Saddam Hussein
December 31, 2006 - 06:00 PM
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To be honest I don't think his executtion achieved anything. Life imprisonment would have been better.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
December 31, 2006 - 08:44 PM
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all death are not need for all people. Life right is the human right for all was approve by UN.
The death of Saddam Hussein was received opinions. In particurlar I think, the trial should not sentence the death for him, that is unfair statement.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 1, 2007 - 07:49 AM
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Allah bless his soul, I never ever want Saddam Hussain to be executed,, and specially by Americans,, this trial was completely unfair,, cuase it was not the job of Americans but it was the Job of International Court,, any way we r so much upset for him, All Muslims will never ever forget him,, we really cry for him in our Hearts,, Americans has really Saddened all Muslim Ummah,, Long Live Saddam Hussain.. we will take Saddam,s Revenge inshalah
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 1, 2007 - 09:53 AM
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It was decided that the call wil be sentenced with death penalty before even the end of the trial we all knew it as people this trial was nothing but a play
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 2, 2007 - 05:26 AM
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I will quote Robert Fisk's article regarding Saddam's execution:
Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America
Published: 30 December 2006
Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi "government", but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.
But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?
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January 2, 2007 - 05:27 AM
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No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.
In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.
Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.
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January 2, 2007 - 05:28 AM
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And the mass killings we perpetrated in 2003 with our depleted uranium shells and our "bunker buster" bombs and our phosphorous, the murderous post-invasion sieges of Fallujah and Najaf, the hell-disaster of anarchy we unleashed on the Iraqi population in the aftermath of our "victory" - our "mission accomplished" - who will be found guilty of this? Such expiation as we might expect will come, no doubt, in the self-serving memoirs of Blair and Bush, written in comfortable and wealthy retirement.
Hours before Saddam's death sentence, his family - his first wife, Sajida, and Saddam's daughter and their other relatives - had given up hope.
"Whatever could be done has been done - we can only wait for time to take its course," one of them said last night. But Saddam knew, and had already announced his own "martyrdom": he was still the president of Iraq and he would die for Iraq. All condemned men face a decision: to die with a last, grovelling plea for mercy or to die with whatever dignity they can wrap around themselves in their last hours on earth. His last trial appearance - that wan smile that spread over the mass-murderer's face - showed us which path Saddam intended to walk to the noose.
I have catalogued his monstrous crimes over the years. I have talked to the Kurdish survivors of Halabja and the Shia who rose up against the dictator at our request in 1991 and who were betrayed by us - and whose comrades, in their tens of thousands, along with their wives, were hanged like thrushes by Saddam's executioners.
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January 2, 2007 - 05:29 AM
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I have walked round the execution chamber of Abu Ghraib - only months, it later transpired, after we had been using the same prison for a few tortures and killings of our own - and I have watched Iraqis pull thousands of their dead relatives from the mass graves of Hilla. One of them has a newly-inserted artificial hip and a medical identification number on his arm. He had been taken directly from hospital to his place of execution. Like Donald Rumsfeld, I have even shaken the dictator's soft, damp hand. Yet the old war criminal finished his days in power writing romantic novels.
It was my colleague, Tom Friedman - now a messianic columnist for The New York Times - who perfectly caught Saddam's character just before the 2003 invasion: Saddam was, he wrote, "part Don Corleone, part Donald Duck". And, in this unique definition, Friedman caught the horror of all dictators; their sadistic attraction and the grotesque, unbelievable nature of their barbarity.
But that is not how the Arab world will see him. At first, those who suffered from Saddam's cruelty will welcome his execution. Hundreds wanted to pull the hangman's lever. So will many other Kurds and Shia outside Iraq welcome his end. But they - and millions of other Muslims - will remember how he was informed of his death sentence at the dawn of the Eid al-Adha feast, which recalls the would-be sacrifice by Abraham, of his son, a commemoration which even the ghastly Saddam cynically used to celebrate by releasing prisoners from his jails. "Handed over to the Iraqi authorities," he may have been before his death. But his execution will go down - correctly - as an American affair and time will add its false but lasting gloss to all this - that the West destroyed an Arab leader who no longer obeyed his orders from Washington, that, for all his wrongdoing (and this will be the terrible get-out for Arab historians, this shaving away of his crimes) Saddam died a "martyr" to the will of the new "Crusaders".
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January 2, 2007 - 05:30 AM
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When he was captured in November of 2003, the insurgency against American troops increased in ferocity. After his death, it will redouble in intensity again. Freed from the remotest possibility of Saddam's return by his execution, the West's enemies in Iraq have no reason to fear the return of his Baathist regime. Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there's a thought. So many crimes avenged.
But we will have got away with it.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 3, 2007 - 02:00 AM
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I was saddened when I switched on the TV and saw CNN PROUDLY displaying the words "Saddam Hussein: 1937 - 2006". It is in my humble opinion that that execution should never have taken place.
I must add here that I do not in any way intend to downplay whatever "attrocities" he is purported to have commited, but I believe he is a pawn that just fell out with his "king, queen and bishop", when he rufused to obey them or dance to their crazy tunes.
For one, I dont think the trial was free and fair. If it was, why was he executed before the trial ended? In a country that does not support executions? Oh, now I remember! The president promised him he wouldnt :see the NEW YEAR"! Dang! 
Secondly, the whole American involvement in this drama simply annoys me! With a "sense of messainic mission", the US has "saved the day" once again, isnt it? It really is so so sad. I am waiting for the discovery of weapons of mass destruction recovered, since the invasion of Iraq.... But I know I will wait for ever.
As a student of global politics, my thoughts run wild as I put the pieces together, but I realise in a fora such as this, a lot of things are better left unsaid,
I believe his execution was not called for and his trial was not properly done. Point is=He had been executed long before the trial began.
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 3, 2007 - 02:48 PM
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Saddam is a Hero.........well NEMESIS shall ......
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Re: Saddam Hussein
January 9, 2007 - 01:25 PM
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Saddam a hero?
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