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2006-12-30 Iraq

Comments on the death penalty for Saddam Hussein

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Posted by .com 2006-12-30 15:56|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They's hanged better men than 'im, the bastard.

Posted by Danny Deever 2006-12-30 16:17|| 2006-12-30 16:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Barbarity has to be fought by other means than barbarity.

Like surrendering, Frenchy?

Posted by Raj 2006-12-30 17:13|| 2006-12-30 17:13|| Front Page Top

#3 "Fill 'er up and make it a double!"
-badanov

Posted by badanov 2006-12-30 17:26|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-12-30 17:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Saddam's execution punishes "a crime with another crime. ... The death penalty is not a natural death. And no one can give death, not even the state."
- Cardinal Renato Martino, Pope Benedict XVI's top prelate for justice issues.

Usual Euro drivel. Jefferson wrote, so listen up "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,.."

When the state is no longer willing or able to render justice, that power reverts back to the people cause that is the basis of the power in the first place. Vendetta is a long and well practiced social mechanism that lasted well until state promised the people that they, the state, would give justice. Remove or cripple that function and watch how long before vendetta returns.

Ask this fellow if he truly believed in just what he said, then do away with the the state's means of death such as the military and police. He'll be muzzie or muzzie shoe stain before next Christmas. And if I remember correctly Padre, two thieves accompanied your savior that day. They admitted their wrongs. They admitted they deserved their punishment. They were not give a reprieve from their crosses for their earthly transgressions. Their redemption was after paying the earthly price for their earthly wrongs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-30 18:07|| 2006-12-30 18:07|| Front Page Top

#5 "Saddam was treated with respect when he was alive and after his death. Saddam's execution was 100 percent Iraqi and the American side did not interfere."

Somehow these sentences seem mutually exclusive to me. Which to believe?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-30 19:05|| 2006-12-30 19:05|| Front Page Top

#6 About what I'd expect from the AP (aka Al Jazeera West)

Posted by DMFD 2006-12-30 19:27|| 2006-12-30 19:27|| Front Page Top

#7 "I hope he was afraid and prayed for his soul, I also hope it hurt, a lot!"

49 Pan

Posted by 49 Pan 2006-12-30 20:40|| 2006-12-30 20:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The commandment is “Thou shalt not murder,” not “Thou shalt not kill.” Some people who should know better forget that.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-30 20:40|| 2006-12-30 20:40|| Front Page Top

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