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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Should he have hung, or was that to good for him?
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Me trying to impose my own views and thoughts on the Iraqis, who are (in theory at least) a sovereign people, seems pointless. It's their country, and they can run it as they see fit.
However, the "too good for him" comment is too good for me to pass up. I think that they should have taken a lesson from the 16th Century Russians. After Ivan IV's (AKA The Terrible) son Feodor died, there was no heir and a gigantic power vacuum. After a few years of squalor, a man appeared out of the Polish frontier claiming to be Ivan's dead son, Dmitri (who officially died at his own hand when he had an epileptic fit while playing with a knife and slit his own throat). In actuality, the guy was most likely a defrocked priest from Poland and looked nothing like Dmitri.
With the backing of the Poles, Dmitri ascended the throne and married the daughter of the Patriarch of Kiev (I think). After about a year, the Russians grew tired of being ruled by the Poles and the nobility revolted, killing Dmitri in pretty dramatic swordfight in the Kremin.
Here's my favorite story in all of Russian history - they took his body and had it drawn and quartered (tied his limbs to 4 separate horses and ran them off in different directions). They took those pieces and burned them in a fire. Then they loaded the ashes in a cannon and shot them off towards Poland. There's debatable historical evidence that it actually happened this way, but it's such a great story that I kind of hope that it did.
Unless the Iraqis cremate Saddam and fire him off toward Tikrit or wherever, this is just another hanging.
Hopefully that story will make you smile at least a little and bring a little of the civility BOR is talking about back to this thread. Until then, I'm staying away.