Monday, November 06, 2006
Execution
We had all forgotten about the former Iraqi leader. The other day it was announced that Saddam will be executed by means of hanging. I am an opponent of capital punishment. In any form. I do not think that Saddam should be spared punishment, he is a horrible man. and deserves everything he gets. We as a nation had no legitimet reason to invade his country. Iraq in theory would have been better off without Saddam in power. I admit I felt that way, but now I understand that was fanciful thinking. We as human beings have to be better than the monsters of this world by killing him will not heal any wounds. I know that by killing him we are not being more moral than he in fact we stoop to his level. Saddam is a madman. What he did while in power was horrible. He committed attrocities at the drop of a hat. I promise you that I will not lose any sleep over his death, I don't feel any compassion for Saddam. I think that capital punishment is a punishment carried out by primitive society. I think all cultures have move beyond a point where legalized killing is necessary. We may not have realized it yet. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you have the right to take a mans life you get one more step to that absolute corruption. This by no means excuses Saddam. I will not challenge the ruling, but that doesn't make it justifiable.
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The timing of his sentence goes well in hand with the timing of the mid-term elections. Bush and his croonies could care less justice. They care more about the 20 second sound bite on the national news that will get the ill advised Christian conservatives to vote. Bush has had a hand in killing far more people than Saddam. Any time a bombing campaign projection for colateral deaths is above 30 civilians, the president must approve it. Check out the number of civilians killed in Iraq during the war and you will see that Bush should be tried for crimes against humanity also. www.iraqbodycount.org
I don't deny that the Bush Administration MAY have timed this and tinkered with that, but what I don't understand is how we as a society can do the same thing that was done in WWII during Hitler and his Nazi thugs...look the other way and pretend its another nation's problem. I have said before in my posts that other countries problems are our problems now because every country is now linked. True we would not have gone into Iraq for purely moral reasons, that's why we aren't doing anything about Darfur right now. Iraq's problems were affecting us. Therefore, we fix Iraq, we fix our problems. Not to mention the fact that Saddam tortured and humiliated his people to degrees almost equatable to that of Hitler in Nazi Germany. When America in WWII looked the other way at a Nation ravaged by terrorism, guess what happened at Pearl Harbor. Do we really think that by simply looking the other way while lunatics control small countries goverments, that it is not going to eventually come back around and hit us? We've already learned that lesson. Iraq WILL be better IN TIME without Saddam, just as Afghanistan was once as modern as America in the 70's. What we need is patience and time. Now that we have a new Secretary of Defense, we will be able to clean up the country, restore order, and neuralize the remaining terrorists that are no longer targeting American soldiers, but Iraqi people themselves. Bush didn't kill anyone, Bin Laden did. Facts straight please.
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Nicole
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