Comments on: Sadaam Executed. Should We Care?

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:01:44 +0000

WOW Hey lets remove the terrorist that are harming the world TOO!!!!!!!!!!! Why is it ok for a Muslim to blow up schools, churches, nightclubs, planes, buildings, ships, trains and on and on. But if BUSH wants to stop it, he is wrong. You must be terroist lovers along with the Democrats. Don’t worry you will get to have your abortions and Gay Marriages. Which reminds me. 3000 solier died in Iraq 70% by Iranian IED’s and paid terrorist insurgents.(in over 4 years) while liberal baby killing democrats are responsible for close to 50,000,000 dead babies! But thats ok they can’t fight back-so you guys are really tough guys! But don’t worry you can poke each other in your BUTTS and forget about that while you spread AIDS (WHICH KILLS MILLIONS)Everyday 6000 children are orphaned because of aids. But thats what you guys are for. BAD BUSH defending our country against Muslim Extremists that are trying to take over the world. SHAME ON HIM! Well you will be happy to know that we know already have one goverment official that is a Muslim who swore in on the KORA (The very book that tell them to kill everyone that is not a Muslim! Does seperation from church and state apply here too?? or should a go out and buy me a nice mat to kneel on and bow down to Mecca? Het and Obama has Muslim roots! BAD BUSH doesn’t Bush know we want to become Muslim? Well Moron U.S. citizen’s seem to back the muslim terrosts and go agains our own country- WHY?????? The news media does the most backing of the terrorist. I bet they are owned by Iran. Well not to worry, the president of Iran is telling his people “There will be a world without the U.S.A. and with their nukes, it should not be too long. But hey thats what America wants now. They did not want that during the last two elections. FUNNY Bush stayed the samebut the people that voted for him changed. If they wanted a Muslim President they should have voted for one in the first place. Don’t blame Bush if you voted for the wrong guy blame youself! He has not changed and is the same as what you voted for. Now that you changed your mind It’s too late or law says he gets for years because YOU voted for him! It’s YOUR FAULT you should be made at yourself. Until the next election except the choice you made and back it up, instead of being brainwashed by a Democratic, Terrorist loving, Baby killing, Butt poking NEWS MEDIA!!!!!!!!!

By: Scott Vernon

Scott Vernon — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:58:31 +0000

Every time America uses the death penalty a little more of its moral integrity is eroded.

Land of the free or the disadvantaged? You’re much more likely to be executed if you are hispanic or black.

Over the last period most americans should hang their heads in shame (excuse the non-intended pun).

What the US brings to the world, especially those of us in Europe, is uncertainty and hatred. How can we side with you when your solution to everything is death to those who don’t toe the line?!

If ever there were evil in the White House it is the, apparently, Born Again GW Bush.

You guys put him there and it is, therefore, your civil obligation to remove him before he does more harm to the world.

I used to like americans (heck my cousins llive in the Carolinas and California) , but you know what? Since Sadaams exection now I truly understand why you, as a nation, are detested all over the world.

By the way I’m not some raghead muslim fundamentalist. I’m 100% Irish and proud of the liberty and rights my country affords me.

Think about that as you bow your head down to sleep tonight.

If you are kidnapped or shot or terroised anywhere in the world in the next few years, who should shed a tear for you?

You earned it.

By: LM

LM — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:09:37 +0000

Jim brings up a good point, one which I had almost forgotten (for shame).

On another note, I think it’s easy for us to become emotionally detached from topics that are not part of our everyday reality. We can easily conjecture about capital punishment, or try to imagine what it’s like to execute someone, because we have the benefit of being able to create our own reality using our imagination. We can soften the truth just enough so that the idea of killing someone becomes not too unpalatable.

But to actually witness an execution … it kind of shakes the conscience a little more vigorously, and brings home reality. This video, which depicts the moments before Saddam’s execution (but not the act itself), brings reality pretty close to home: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=38e1076b19 .

By: Jim Graves

Jim Graves — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:44:36 +0000

Any time someone is executed, we should care. But it seems as if we’re expected to care extra fervently about executing Saddam. It’s hard for me to do so, partly because he never did anything to me or anyone I know, and partly because he has long been neutralized. A madman with weapons of mass destruction who kills his country’s people is a threat. Put him in court, scruffy and dazed and ranting endlessly, and he’s merely pathetic. What should we feel when that sad thing is executed? Vindication? Relief? Satisfaction? Or something closer to pity?

I think there’s another reason we’re expected to care. Saddam Hussein has been Osama bin Laden’s stand-in ever since the buildup to the Iraq war. We couldn’t track down bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan (without creating a mess that would have made Iraq look like a garden party). So, frustrated, we turned around and whipped Saddam instead. It’s hard not to wonder if people will (or are supposed to) treat this as a substitute execution. It looks increasingly unlikely we’ll ever catch Osama or bring him to justice (or revenge), but at least we could kill someone.

Hooray, a tyrant is dead! Perhaps if we close our eyes and pretend really hard, we can convince ourselves it was someone who had anything at all to do with 9/11.