The full execution video

[Tricky]

Beat me to it

[MinionZombie]

Have you been seeing the bullsh*t in the news lately? People decrying the death penalty - Rome lighting up the colliseum - twatface Brown taking a momentary break from raping people's pockets for money, to denounce the execution... Have all these morons forgotten he was one of the most evil people in human history? It's a disgrace to the human race to even consider Saddam as a human being. These people pissing and moaning about him being executed should really take a step back and smell the rotting stench of genocide, one of the many horrific-beyond-belief crimes Saddam committed. The disgusting, utterly deplorable and totally unspeakable evil deeds he inflicted upon prisoners are beyond comprehension. So f*cking what if people were taunting Saddam with *dramatic gasp* ... WORDS ... oh unknowable universe, that tramples all over genocide in the annals of nasty behaviour doesn't it?! Also - Saddam was handed over to the Iraqi people and they hung him their way. They need democracy and stability, without democracy you get scumbags like Saddam lourding his evil over innocent people. Boo-hoo if the people, who have suffered endlessly at the hands of this evil bastard, seek joy in the topling of this dictator. It is good that he's been expelled from our world, no more money needs to wasted keeping him in suits, dragging him back and forth to court and all that jazz, now that money can be put to better use. If anything we need more death penalty, to use exclusively on those who are 100% guilty of the most hideous, heinous and brutal crimes known to man. Expel them from our universe so we can put the money to better use - for things like, you know, education, health and security. Good riddence I say.

[_liam_]

liberal twats in the media are using what can be quite a complex ethical argument as an excuse to bash the government, get in a tiz, and promote their self declated moral high ground status. i mean saddam was bad, cos he killed people...yet we killed him (cos our forces handed him over to people who would realistically only do one thing with him). the trial wasn't fair either. personally, i think these are all valid arguments, but guess what - I DONT CARE. let him hang! got off likely if you ask me.

[Maitreya]

The way I see it, when it comes to America, we were better off with him in power, don't even deny it, he wasn't bothering us, he was minding to his own country. Now I'm not saying he was a good person, or a good leader by any means. But a vast majority of his war crimes were committed during the FIRST gulf war. The way I see it, now that we've executed him (Face it, it was mostly us, we pretty much fast-tracked it) we've left Iraq in a state of disarray, with a force-fed democratic government. We can hardly make democracy work in our own ****ing country and they're trying to force it onto people who've never had it a day in their lives? I think not. I figure once we cut our losses and leave (the killing is only getting worse), the new Iraq government (that's a laugh) will last for MAYBE 3 years. At that point one of the groups vying for power will take over and begin to rule in an autocratic fashion. But one there's gonna be one major difference between them and Saddam. They'll have an example, they'll see that what Saddam was doing didn't work, that he was overthrown, and depending on the person who takes over, that person might think it's because he didn't rule strongly enough, that he didn't have a strong enough iron fist. This person will rule the country worse than Saddam, at least by our standards. Now this is all speculation and I could be 100% wrong and I really hope I am, but somehow I doubt it.

[_liam_]

sadly, i think you will turn out to be correct in your assumptions..

[Chakobsa]

One day a friend showed me a site with the most atrocious beheading videos I have ever seen. After my initial curiosity I stopped 'cos there was a certain guilt that came along with watching them. This one is different to me because I am not watching some innocent guy get beheaded with a machete while screaming on the floor for his life. This is a vile monster who took thousands of lives and destroyed many generations of familes after. It's not something I'd particularly rewind and watch for fun but I found it strangely inoffensive. What I find more offensive is the fact that this guy is not screaming for his life. It's not all that comforting to know that the killer of thousands of innocents gets off lighter than the average cow in a slaughterhouse. I think that we tread a fine line when we look at horrors like the ones you mention Capn'. On the one hand there is the part of us that slows down to rubber-neck at car accidents, on the other is the powerful urge to see with ones own eyes and try and make sense of it for yourself. I was shown a couple on a pals mobile once and felt somewhat soiled by the fact that someone thought that I'd be entertained by witnessing some poor guy's terminal moments, I watched the clips with a sort of horrified fascination and later reflected on what effect the act of seeing had on me, I think the only effect they had for me was to graphically confirm my already pessimistic view of the human condition. As to the Saddam execution, he got what he deserved, end of. That said, I can think of a few leaders of the so called civilised and democratic West who should have been dancing "Danny Deevers" alongside Saddam.