in my opinion the death penalty is never right, taking someone elses life is never right, whoever it is and whatever they have done. there are forms of punishment which dont involve killing but his real punishment was that he died with a fucked up conscience and will never be at peace... the only problem now is that the executor will die under the same circumstances (not being hung, being guilty).

My father went to Iraq in 2003. A leader sets an example to his nation and Iraq now knows no better than what he taught them.

The one thing which he told us which I'll always remember is this

He was riding in the back of the landrover when two children walked out of a building and pulled a gun on him. They know no different.
He was lucky.

The nation live in such poverty while he lived in luxury. They were terrified but he had many supporters otherwise he wouldn't have lasted so long. He's on the same level as Hitler imo.
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tis a strange situation, i see that other countrys have equal problems with such nasty dictators, some countrys have experienced there own genocides, a prime example of that would be Rwanada. yet the leaders of the world did not intervene in most of these 'other' cases, human rights abuses have been going on in other countrys like Iran for many many years, so personally i dont see why the western governments have singled out Iraq and its former leader. whilst its a good thing he was removed, cos he was abusing his peoples rights, i do feel the governments responsible for his removal from power have done so with ulterior motive as opposed to 'just doing a good for the world' and i dont buy it myself.

SOATom, they don't so what gave him the right to end so many people's lives?

And why shouldn't he be treated the same way?
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I don't have it on my conscience - and neither do you.

It was up to the Iraqis as to what happened to him and they dealt with it how they felt was best.
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with so much hate and anger ou ther and you can still say life is a privelage. Id say its a peice of shit handed to you on a plate. You have to chose wether to like the shit add your sugar and make do or well

yes life is a privilege he didn't deserve. if your life is sh*t do something about it!

Well, leaving him rotting away in a dark cell, forgotten about for the rest of his life probably would have been a more fitting way to deal with him in my opinion.

I mean, in the end, all that's happened is the Americans done to Saddam what he was charged of doing. Makes little sense to me in all honesty.