Saddam is gone.....

Dang...the Fox website has pictures...

 
I was watching the Nightline last night and was appalled to see among their video montage of Saddam's killings...images of a mother holding her baby- lying dead on doorstep on some street, the babies eyes open, staring out of a terrified face.  I cannot believe that was ok to show on TV like that.  I started bawling from the shock of it.  I realize people need to understand the horrors of what he did, but I didn't need to see that before bed.

yeah, it is so much more acceptable to hang and exploit photo's of the hanged than it is to order people to do the same, really, it is. im just as disgusted by alot of every day people's actions and reactions as i am by saddam. sorry, i get no pleasure out of a death, deserved or not.

I'm actually surprised that they didn't televise it  - or make it into a pay-per-view.[:'(]
 
Joyce

I'm with Gaylemarie watching and seeing the pictures just didn't make me feel good at all despite how unthinkable the things he did were. 

I actually felt sorry for him despite everything he had done. I even prayed that he would find peace on the other side. I know it is silly of me, but a life is a life and everyone deserves some respect at the end.

--Sara

ORIGINAL: spiritdogs

I found him to be a revolting individual, and find all dictators to be so. And, while I normally don't support capital punishment (to me 50 years of lost freedom in a crappy and hostile environment beats death)

I agree with you 200%, how much did he suffer with the hanging? 5? 10 seconds? instead of 50 years in a 12x7 cell for the rest of his life with only one hour a day to go out of the cell to take a shower? go to your bathroom and stay there for 2 straight hours, your life would be miserable, now imagine doing that for the rest of your life, i think a capital punishment was actually a reward, a good way to scape of what he was living right now

You cant solve a crime with another crime

The video has been leaked over the internet.
Some guy took a cell phone inside.

yeah, it is so much more acceptable to hang and exploit photo's of the hanged than it is to order people to do the same, really, it is. im just as disgusted by alot of every day people's actions and reactions as i am by saddam. sorry, i get no pleasure out of a death, deserved or not.

 
I'm glad you said it first. [] I agree.

The only people I've seen actually "rejoicing" at the news of his execution were the victims of his genocide, such as the Kurds.
 
Me, I don't rejoice in it. I see it something that needed to be done, alongside scooping the dog poop out of the yard.
 
But I might feel different if it was Osama bin Laden getting hanged. I might just do a happy dance. And before someone tells me I'm cold and heartless, my wife's daughter's adoptive brother was working in a building next to the first tower. He heard the noise and came outside. A headless woman nearly landed on him. He carried her body to the harbor, since that was where the first aid was coming in. And it has left emotional scars on him. He went so far as to move to Indonesia, changed religion and profession. He may come back to the States but it won't be New York City, where he had lived most of his adult life.
 
When someone has made a career out of decimating thousands of lives and entire cultures, I have a hard time mustering sympathy for them. Nor can I truly fault people such as the Kurds for feeling some elation that the man who tortured, killed, and attempted to destroy an entire group of people that they belonged to no longer walks the Earth.
 
But people celebrated when Hitler was dead. I would have, if I had been alive at the time.

ORIGINAL: snownose

The video has been leaked over the internet.
Some guy took a cell phone inside.

 
Okay guys,
 
Hate me, but I was curious. I saw the video.

I'm relieved that some people here have managed to rise above the propaganda that's been spilling out about Saddam since America decided to remove him from where they put him all those years ago. How can any person judge whether another person is fit to live or not? He's just a man, not Satan. How many people do you suppose George W. Bush has killed? Isn't the death toll of Americans in Iraq greater than the death toll at the towers on 9/11, now? Not to mention the innocents of other nationalities that have been caught up in it all.

I'm sick of this pointless war and everything about it, including Saddam.  Even though he's dead, it doesn't magically solve the problems over there.  He had an evil legacy that cannot be erased by his death.  The media is hideously repulsive (I should know), so they'll yammer about this for weeks.  

I think that it is really sad that they had to do it on Eid, the holist holiday of the Muslims.

Corvis - absolutely.  Right on all counts.  Evil though he may have been, I just don't think getting rid of him was our call ... or our  job.  I don't recall any news reports to the effect that Iraq was begging us to come over there and take their leader out for them.  If the majority of the citizens of any country are that disenchanted with whoever is running the show, it's up to them to find a way to get rid of him. There is more than one avenue to carry this out -  the voting booth, impeachment, assassination.  Whatever.  We have more than enough problems here without running all over the world trying to rid other countries of *evil dictators.* The death toll is so not worth it.
 
Joyce

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