Saddam Hussein sentenced to death.

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Originally Posted by g0zen

There is no moral high ground gained from this man's death. It's a footnote in history now.

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When was killing Saddam about the moral high ground?

When was it not? The idea behind making him swing was that he was this deadly cancer plaguing the world that had to be destroyed, and only the valiant US had the will to see it through. Naturally, it hasn't played out that way. One man is dead, the war continues.

Come on, did anyone actually buy that? really?

We got a long way to go if we really are play world police.

death was probably too good for saddam, he should've been made to work, every day, at tbe construction of a wall/monument, that upon each of the bricks would be enscribed the known names of the people he had murdered. To let him wallow in his own shittyness.

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Originally Posted by Calliander

I can't believe anyone of sound mind can watch a video like this and think, "That guy deserved that."

I don't care what someone's done. Go fuck yourselves.

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I understand having a problem watching it; it is a human being's death after all. But to say that he didn't deserve it is a bit silly dude, he killed over a million people. I've seen him executing innocent women and children in far more gruesome fashion in various documentaries, I'm not going to let myself get down about him getting what he had coming to him for a long time. Are you anti-death penalty in all instances?

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Originally Posted by g0zen

When was it not? The idea behind making him swing was that he was this deadly cancer plaguing the world that had to be destroyed, and only the valiant US had the will to see it through. Naturally, it hasn't played out that way. One man is dead, the war continues.

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The idea behind making him swing was that he deserved to swing for butchering over a million people. I don't think it's about a moral high ground, it's about justice and closure for a lot of people.

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Originally Posted by SpoDaddy

The idea behind making him swing was that he deserved to swing for butchering over a million people. I don't think it's about a moral high ground, it's about justice and closure for a lot of people.

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There's nothing just about this. It's revenge killing, pure and simple. Don't try to lionize it.

You don't get to say 'well, this guy is a monster..he kills people' and then turn right around and kill him for it. That's about as far from justice as possible. There's nothing that Saddam's stretched neck serves that him rotting for the rest of his life in a cell wouldn't.

There's a difference between justice and revenge. I'm not lionizing it, it is what it is.

Exactly, and 'eye for an eye' isn't justice. It's vengeance.