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Originally Posted by Lady Sage
Good thing I am not christian and therefore do not believe a word of it. No offense intended.
Personally he had it too easy. He tortured people yet met a swift end. Would have made me happier if he would have met his end in a more... rustic punnishment with much screaming and begging and blood and guts.
Killind Saddam is like popping a zit. You still know it was there but it feels a whole lot better now that its gone. I believe I am due to be crucified now. Have at it, beat me good!
There are only 2 people on the planet that I will celebrate more heartily when they die.
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No offense taken....the biblical reference was an exercise intended to stimulate your thinking.....an example of the hypocrisy of a "christian" nation that fully endorses the death penalty, not an attempt to convert you....
Wouldn't a more just, enlightening, and more beneficial turn of events have been watching Saddam testify before a senate committee....offering verifiable proof of the collaboration of American politicians and their appointees in knowingly enabling his crimes?
Picture Saddam detailing the contents of private messages he received during the 1980's from Reagan and Bush '41, or the intelligence reports from the CIA that they authorized him to have, enabling him to most effectively target Iranian troops in the war of aggression that he initiated, with the blessing of the US. How about his provision of details of a meeting he allegedly had with Carter's NSA chief, Bzrezinski, where he presented a "wish list" of American weaponry that he desired on the eve of beginning his war against Iran?
....or how much help he got from the US in devloping and deploying chemical and biological weapons, besides what has already been reported, or what encouragement he received from US ambassador Glaspie, in 1990, on the eve of his invasion of Kuwait?
If you believe that Saddam would not have made a credible witness, consider that he was cunning and intelligent enough to point to places where evidence of the reliability of his testimony, in many cases, could have been obtained.
A trial in an international court had the potential to pave the way for revelations of this kind, as opposed to the closed nature of how he was prosecuted and executed, under isolated American controlled "lock down", until his final moments. Who do you suppose benefitted most from Saddam's inaccessibility? Could it be those who defined the circumstances of his confinement, trial, and execution.
....and the revelation of the circumstances that allowed him access to spare oil field service parts and technical support, from Cheney's Haliburton during the years of the UN sanctions....the list of potential questions goes on and on, and the rushed, undignified execution of a man with the potential to reveal who among us, shares his deadly dysfunctional behavior....folks like....possibly former CIA director, and current DOD secretary, Gates, VP Cheney, and president Bush's own father, is not as trivial an act as popping a "zit" !