Saddam Hussain

[donjuan]

what do you think should be done with him?

[ahinton]

what do you think should be done with him?

Well, he should be banned from this forum, for a start! - provided that Nils Johan is in agreement with such an action, of course...

Best,

Alistair

[mephisto]

what do you think should be done with him?

He should get a trial. And get the punishment he decerves(by international law, not american law)  if he has done anything wrong(I am not implying that he hasn`t). I am personally against capital punishment.

[ahinton]

He should get a trial. And get the punishment he decerves(by international law, not american law)  if he has done anything wrong(I am not implying that he hasn`t). I am personally against capital punishment.

Seriously, yes, of course he should be tried and yes, according to international rather than American law (or should that be Sharia law, or...) - but then we'll all be in for another great Pinochet-style farce-cum-soap-opera that will (a) cost lots of people sheaves of money that many of them can't afford, (b) drag on for years - maybe even decades, (c) provide nothing of any real lasting benefit to Iraqi citizens and (d) create a whole new profiteering industry for international hot-shot lawyers, journalists et al; I think I'll jump on the bandwagon and buy shares in this roadshow now, in the hope that the results of their capital growth over the years will help to keep me warm in my old age...

Best,

Alistair

[musik_man]

I think he should get a fair trial, not one based off of 'international law,' a fairly nebulous concept.  I see no authority in the UN a club for petty dictators.  Any institution that gives Castro, Mugabe, or Quadaffi the same vote as America, Japan, Europe, and other democracies has no moral standing with me.

As far as the death penalty, even though I don't like seeing it applied to common murderers, I have to make an exception for cases like this.  Hussein simply cannot be left alive without a strong possibility of harm.

[anekdote]

I agree with musik_man regarding international law.

I say give Saddam the death penalty. Why should we be "humane" to a man who was so "inhumane" to others? I wouldn't mind in the least if Saddam was flogged and/or hanged (although these are outmoded forms of justice). None of this pansy "nice treatment in jail with a quiet death by injection."

[lisztisforkids]

International law? what! Let the Iraqi people try him! How dare some of you say he should be tried by a foreign court! I am disgusted.    He dident gas Germans, he dident surpress Russians, he dident torture Canadians, he dident rule with an iron fist over Mexico: But he did in Iraq. The only people on this earth that have the right to decide what to do with him are the Iraqi people! Not Americans, not Europe, Iraqis!


 Ironically, the international community that wants to try him was opposed to taking him down anyways....   

[zheer]

.    He dident gas Germans, he dident surpress Russians, he dident torture Canadians, he dident rule with an iron fist over Mexico: But he did in Iraq.
 

    Thats true, but he did go to war with Iran and kuwait .

[mephisto]

.  Any institution that gives Castro, Mugabe, or Quadaffi the same vote as America, Japan, Europe, and other democracies has no moral standing with me.

OMG   Germany, China, England, USA i think France are the only countries that have veto(exuse me if this really isn`t an english word ), and thus making their wotes much more important that Cuba, Lybia and Zimbabwe.

[gorbee natcase]

The death penalty is an easy way out.

I say torture

[musik_man]

OMG   Germany, China, England, USA i think France are the only countries that have veto(exuse me if this really isn`t an english word ), and thus making their wotes much more important that Cuba, Lybia and Zimbabwe.

Not in the general counsel.  You're thinking of the security counsel.

BTW I don't care if those countries have slightly less power than democracies at the UN.  I'm angry that they have any power at all.

[mephisto]

Not in the general counsel.  You're thinking of the security counsel.

You are right.

[stevie]

force him to perform necrophallic fellatio and cunnilingus?

the dead deserve pleasure too 

[kony]

OMG   Germany, China, England, USA i think France are the only countries that have veto(exuse me if this really isn`t an english word ), and thus making their wotes much more important that Cuba, Lybia and Zimbabwe.

The security council, which consists of China, France, Russia, UK and USA have the most power in the UN, and yes they have "the veto". but still, UN is rigged. besides, the US already ignored the UN's persuasions of not going to war, and with its most powerful member going rogue (not to mention UK as well), the UN is really .. useless.