Saddam's Execution

[purebloodtexan]

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I thought we weren't going to know about this until after it happened?

I don't think most people understand that killing Osama will do absolutely nothing. He has no real power right now, it won't make terrorism go away. We aren't killing Saddam either. He was tried in a foreign court on counts of Mass Murder(and Genocide later, even after he is dead) and is following according law.

Why waste resources searching for Osama when we need to direct all of our logistic thinking towards the current situation in Iraq.

Tell me, if someone took down a part of American history, made many younger ones panic (including me), and killed many people, wouldn't you wanna take him down too?

[~Zero~]

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Saddam is dead. he died a few minutes ago

[FRANKKK]

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the thing i think is kinda funny in a way is...osama needs to walk around with oxygen tanks to stay alive, and yet he is still one of the most wanted men by the U.S..and we still cant find him...for all we know he is already dead and we are searching for nothing.

[IAAW]

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Yeah, let's just go over to the middle east and kill everyone because they all might have been behind 9/11.

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I don't see why people are so happy about him being executed. What has he done that you have ever seen first hand? He could be a made up person and you'd never even know, so why care about it? Yeah, sure, I'm sure that he really is a real person and that he really did terrible things, but I just don't see how people can care when it doesn't affect them. I mean, I guess you could have a relative or friend in Iraq, but the US invaded Iraq, not the other way around. We instigated the fight.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Don't be so easily swayed. Support his execution, sure, that's fine, but be happy about it? That's just silly.

And for you guys talking about Osama: We'll never find him. Honestly, as this Iraq war thing was first started all I could think was "wait, you're not even done taking care of those responsible for 9/11 and now you're making up bull**** about Iraq being behind it?! What the hell?" If we were going to find him, I'm sure we would have by now. He's probably already dead or in hiding where he'll never be found.

Truly, I don't support Saddam's execution. And I'm not too happy about it. Just, well, making conversation, and talking about what COULD'VE happened if 9/11 happened differently, and all that stuff. What do you think the world would be like today if 9/11 never happened?

Anyways, I rest my case; I don't support Saddam's execution, although we should be safe than sorry, and I'm not too happy about it; more life-threatening situations from Saddam's death could possibly happen.

[chickendude]

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you can't make arguments like "what could've happened if 9/11 never happened"

the fact is, it did happen.

Now, killing Saddam Hussein WILL have ramifications in the current situation in Iraq. I doubt they will be good ones. Hussein had no power at all after his capture. Killing him just makes a big racket where none was necessary. It draws attention away from the real problem. If anything, the war in Iraq could intensify because of this.

Right now, I have mixed feelings about the Saddam hanging. Sure, he had it coming, but it really had no positive political meaning. Only bad things can come of it. There's no group that really despises Hussein that much that they will rejoice and help the US in the war. There are however, groups that supported Saddam who will be infuriated.

Saddam deserved it, but politically I'm not so sure about the decision.

[MixMasterLar]

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Wait, some of you dont think killing him will do anything? oh I know let's just do this:

Ok everybody we are the biggist wussies ever, even if you kill all of our familes we are going to follow Truman's example of how war should be fought and let everybody who died just die in vain cuz we're giving in.

WE GIVE, COME HURT US CUZ WE WONT DO ANYTHING!

Yeah Im sure that the familes of the dead would love that crap.

[Lucifericrucifix]

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Personally, I'm actually not all that happy about it. Granted, he wasn't a very good person (as a matter of fact, he was horrible) but even still, I worry about the effect it will play. The execution in ..a few ways can be viewed as a success (a minor one, truly, as we have one man, we have not quite served our ultimate purpose which is to re-establish Iraq.) but ultimately, it's just a small step. The execution could hold a strong penalty upon many in Iraq as civilians and supporters could revolt or riot due to this action. Each action holds a consequence and we have yet to truly see what the consequence of this will be, it may end up leaving us astonished. So am I happy with his execution? Not ultimately, but I guess it's something. Something to certainly be noted.

[D4rkAng3l]

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i would've preffered both Saddam and Osama but at least it was one of them.

[TD_Project]

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lol. leave it to FFR to give me the news. its really sad i learned it from here and not CNN. CNN will probably have this crap on for a long time.

By the way, Iraq wasnt in the greatest condition, so all in all it might have been a good thing for America to step in. However, dont forget we cant have the world run like the United States. Lately it seems if some part of the world doesnt run like US, they get some punishment. As a world power, United States should help the countries. All in all iraq is a bad example though, considering they stopped Saddam's executions to their own people. But even still, now they are in a worse condition because of rebellion forces.

And with china on its way to becoming a higher world power than america in the next few years, then what? We wont have much say anymore.

Of course im Canadian so i have unbiased views, yet from experience, lots of americans are one sided, so this argument really makes no sense to continue.

**** wars, lets concentrate on global warming or something.

[Riku4144]

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Saddam is dead. thats it. He deserves death, if not, more.

[Risking]

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Your Hanging crits Saddam Hussein for 384454
Saddam Hussein Dies
HK: World Leader
+500 honor
Your reputation with United States increases by 250
You are now Exalted with United States.

/farewell Saddam

[purebloodtexan]

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Well, Bush asked for war, so he got war. And a good way to win war is to go for the opponent's leader......of course, Bush was about 2 years late. Moving on.

I think that what Bush didn't see is that Saddam has followers that can basically take his place. Captain Jack died, yet we still have those that support him, and he has a son to "take his place".

So, unless Saddam's death deals a great emotional blow to the loyalists, the war is probably gonna get worse.

[Afrobean]

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Yeah Im sure that the familes of the dead would love that crap.

I already said something about this. The USA instigated the fight with Iraq. It is not their fault we invaded them and toppled their government. It is our own government's fault that people have died in Iraq.

Iraq wasnt in the greatest condition, so all in all it might have been a good thing for America to step in.

Yeah, a civil war is definitely better than a dictatorship whose dictator kills people.

By the way, in case you're retarded, what I just said was sarcasm. I do not feel that us occupying a country in civil war is better than Saddam being in power and killing people, and I don't see how anyone would. In one instance, Americans and Iraqis are being killed (the current situation) and in the other only Iraqis are being killed (Saddam being in power).

[the_unda_doggz]

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Can someone please help find a site with the execution video? I have been googling for about 15 minutes now and can't find one. Plz post the link here if anyone finds it.

[Afrobean]

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Can someone please help find a site with the execution video? I have been googling for about 15 minutes now and can't find one. Plz post the link here if anyone finds it.

Posting such a thing here would be very inappropriate as many younger people view this site.

Also, I think it's deplorable that you would even want to see any video of that nature.