Saddam Hussein is dead.
The deposed tyrant was tried carefully and fairly- something he denied his many victims- judged, condemned to death and, finally, hanged.
If this drivel was to be believed and its logic followed, people like Hitler and Stalin would be mourned.
I don't know what has to be said or done to make people believe that not are there tyrants but when they are actually punished it is a right and just cause.
I really can't think of a way.
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I don't get all the pussyfooting around the death penalty issue--even from the Vatican "spokesman". As was pointed out on one of the good Catholic blogs I read, the death sentence of Hussein DOES fall under the minimal allowances proposed by Pope John Paul II. He clearly stated that death penalty may not be allowed EXCEPT in those cases where the convicted person is a threat to society on a large scale. Clearly, this description fits Saddam Hussein. Doesn't the Vatican know what its own teachings are???
That said, I prayed for Saddam's soul, as we Christians are instructed to. This is an act of mercy and compassion befitting of a Christian--it is not an express sign of pity that a condemned man got his just desserts in a DEMOCRATIC COURT OF LAW UNDER DUE PROCESS.
Render unto Ceasar, folks. And STFU.
Oh, I just looked at that guy's blog entry. I replied even without reading it yet because I KNEW what I was going to find, and I was right.
What nonsense: "I feel a sense of overwhelming sadness". Dude, that's not the death of Saddam--that's YOU, off your litium. Take a double dose; it'll set you back on your feet, I promise.
(snicker)
I checked out his comments section. This one, I think, is more in line with common feelings on the matter:
F*CK Saddam
by:PhillyGal
Sadness my ass! I know so many people in my mosque who are Iraqi ex-patriots who lost family members due to that man..they had family members tortured brutally by that man. Rapes, tortures, 400,000 found in the past 3 years in mass graves. May Allah curse him!!
You know, submarine guzzler, that's what I was thinking. I mean- the real victim here is the rope.
Maybe we've read the "drivel" wrong. Maybe the rope could have been something.
But now, it's too late.
Honestly?
Saddam was a bad guy...yes. However, the US supplied the bad guy with his weapons, with his technology and with the tools to murder those same people he was tried for. The sentence was carried out based on crimes committed in 1982 - the exact same time when the States were supporting Saddam. We looked the other way. We did nothing. And thousands of people died.
So where is the line drawn? Who is the tyrant here?
It's just silly. And yes, I do think an element of it is sad.
So yes, jump up and down and sing, ding dong... the bad guy is dead. Meanwhile, the bastard who has pulled the trigger to kill far more Iraqi's than Saddam ever did is sitting in the White House today.
Actually, that's false Gabrielle. Saddam has killed more Iraqis and so have Islamist militants. Any Iraqi citizen will tell you so. Oh and the Iraqis who have settled in the US, you know that place where sectarian violence doesn't exist, will tell you the same thing.
Actually "anonymous", it's not false. Bush is consistently & continually responsible for more senseless deaths. At least Hussein has been stopped.
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