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12-29-2006, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dekeguy
I am generally philosophically opposed to capital punnishment in most cases. In this instance I am pondering exactly what I think. Dead he could be seen as a martyr, alive he could be a rallying point for the Ba'ath party.
Legally the appropriate courts have heard the case and rendered their decisions, both at first instance and on appeal. Morally there is very little to recommend him, not much in the way of mitigation. On a practical note it is probably better that he be removed to bring closure to a terrible chapter in the history of that nation. If he was jailed for life there is always the possibility that he could be released in the future and stir up things again.
If I were the one making the decision I would follow the law as I had sworn to do. From a personal point of view I would have no problem shooting him in combat but I have some reservations about state sanctioned executions in general which to me seem to diminish the majesty of the law by lowering the state to the level of the one who is being executed. "An Eye for an Eye" was an easy concept to grasp a couple of thousand years ago, but I think we have come to understand things a bit better since then.
An old Jesuit priest once told me that God reveals Himself and His will to us as we become capable of understanding and comprehending Him and His will.
As a convinced man of faith I figure I am responsible to try to understand and comprehend what we are supposed to do. So, to quote the late Yul Brenner in his role as the King of Siam, "Is a puzzlement"!
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An eye for an eye is not biblical. It goes all the way back to Hammurabi's code.
I'm not comfortable with the execution, but then I remember what he's done to thousands of his people over the years. I hate the death penalty, but Iraq is a different country with different beliefs so...
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12-29-2006, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by centaur532
An eye for an eye is not biblical. It goes all the way back to Hammurabi's code.
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That's interesting. You learn something every day. What is the approximate date of Hammurabi's Code?
Sorry for the (hopefully) quick hijack.
Never mind...I had time to Google it and it says about 1780 BC
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12-29-2006, 01:44 PM
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Ok, all you anti-capital punishment mushy-mushies are making me feel bad.
I personally think that hanging is too nice of a way for him to go. But then again, I'm a blood to quench the masses kind of person. He needs to pay for what he did, and all that.
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12-29-2006, 04:25 PM
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I'm not sure how I feel about it. I wouldn't mind knowing he was spending the rest of his life rotting in a jail cell... somehow killing him seems to be giving him the easy way out. Like someone said above, I also worry that in his death he'll become a martyr for extremists and encourage more violence.
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12-29-2006, 05:36 PM
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Hmm, he must have been miss understood as a child! 
What is amazing if anyone cares, this was the cradle of the rise of a Relegious "Awakening"?
He will be a martyer for some and not others, Si?
He is physoctic and no doubt about it.
But, in his own mind He did nothing wrong as a head of state. 
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12-29-2006, 07:13 PM
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Jesse Jackson says Saddam shouldn't be executed
Jesse Jackson says Saddam shouldn't be executed
CHICAGO The Reverend Jesse Jackson says U-S forces should not turn Saddam Hussein over to the Iraqi government for execution.
Jackson says that to allow the former Iraqi leader to be hanged as what he calls "a war trophy" would be a "barbarity" that would only inflame tensions.
Jackson says making Saddam spend the rest of his life in prison would be a better way to "break the cycle of violence in Iraq."
-- Associated Press.
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12-29-2006, 10:19 PM
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Looks like it's going to be tonight now.
I'm against the death penalty overall. I think they should make him live in the hole they found him in for the rest of his years, well guarded, of course.
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12-29-2006, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Ok, all you anti-capital punishment mushy-mushies are making me feel bad.
I personally think that hanging is too nice of a way for him to go. But then again, I'm a blood to quench the masses kind of person. He needs to pay for what he did, and all that.
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I agree. In fact, hanging him again and again until he pays back all for what he did...actually, I don't think he can even do that for the horrible things he did...I mean, who actually takes an innocent person, stab the person with a long sword into their body, and have them walking around in a party laughing at them, and let them die? and if they don't do it, he will kill his whole family?
He deserves it...he deserves to rot in hell....
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12-30-2006, 12:15 AM
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12-30-2006, 01:35 AM
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One down....one to go...think they'll find Bin Ladin now?
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12-30-2006, 01:44 AM
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One down....one to go...
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Nah... I don't think they'll hang Bush...
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