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Today I saw a good friend of mine who came home from Iraq last week. He was showing me the pictures of Iraq, Fallujah, dead insurgents, one of Saddam's palaces. It made me angry to see the latter, to see how he lived when we know how his people suffered under his tyrannical rule. And it made me feel sick.
My friend told me that he'd laughed when he heard Saddam got the death penalty and that he hoped it was televised. I also saw the video memorial to his fallen comrades and I heard him choke up as he showed me a picture of the remains of a suicide bomber who had taken out a marine who was literally 15 minutes away from leaving Fallujah and catching a flight to Kuwait to come back home here.
Now I don't know what to think. I hate the death penalty but should anyone be allowed to live after taking the life of another? Don't you sacrifice your right to life when you take away another's voluntarily? You've deprived that person of a future. Why should you be allowed yours?
I don't know, I think I'm really conflicted about this now.
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I'll take trainwreck for 100 Alex.
And Jesus speaketh, "do unto others as they did unto you because the bitches deserve it".
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