Shag On A Rock said:
RIP Saddam. Rest your troubled mind and weary heart. What's done is done. Let it go. RIP.
I usually can agree with this...however since we're on the topic of terrible dictators...indra said:An execution, no matter how legally or "humanely" carried out, is horrifying to me and must also be to the executed. I can't help but feel for anyone who goes through that.
Canadiens1160 said:I usually can agree with this...however since we're on the topic of terrible dictators...
If I had fought through years of mud and trenches in France and found Hitler alive in his bunker, I probably would have shot the fucker. So it is hard for me to chide other forum members on the Saddam execution
TouchéU2Man said:
of course, of course. that's human.
but the legal system cannot be based on moral outrage. if it is, it is most likely barbaric.
Canadiens1160 said:
If I had fought through years of mud and trenches in France and found Hitler alive in his bunker, I probably would have shot the fucker. So it is hard for me to chide other forum members on the Saddam execution
Shag On A Rock said:
RIP Saddam. Rest your troubled mind and weary heart. What's done is done. Let it go. RIP.
DaveC said:Thank you Zoomerang96 for your fabulous contribution to the thread.
shart1780 said:
I do think it's silly to make threads like this though. Yes, the dead do deserve respect to a point, but Saddam was an EVIL man. There is no getting around that. The thing that gets to me is that a man who caused pain and suffering for millions of people and familes is getting more respect here today than the millions of other innocent people who live honest lives. It's disturbing. I'd rather see a "RIP old lady down the street from me who died last month" thread than this. It's much more deserved.
A logical case can be made for proportional punishment, maybe some type of induced state of pure agony for the rest of his life - or a coma.U2Man said:
of course, of course. that's human.
but the legal system cannot be based on moral outrage. if it is, it is most likely barbaric.
linkSydney’s Iraqi community erupted into celebration in Auburn the moment news broke that Saddam Hussein was dead.
Taxi driver Ayad Laftah, 37, of Yagoona, whose father and brother were killed under the dictator’s regime, burst into cries of “Allah Akbar”, waved his arms and threw sweets into the air.
Holding back tears he cried: “At last, justice for my father and brother."
Car horns rang out across Auburn as news spread.
"I had to grow up without my father because, one day in 1981, he just disappeared,” Mr Laftah said. “The same with my brother, Jewaad. He was just 21 ... To hear Saddam has been executed makes this the happiest day of my life."
Mr Laftah has been in Australia for 16 years after arriving as a refugee.
Fairfield Heights pharmacist Abdul Hamady described yesterday as “justice day”.
Zoomerang96 said:
this has to do with you
some of you are hilarity at it's most absurd.
Shag On A Rock said:Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.: Khalil Gibran.
RIP Saddam. Rest your troubled mind and weary heart. What's done is done. Let it go. RIP.
Zoomerang96 said:this is the single most ridiculous thread i have ever read since i started here.
absolutely ridiculous
shart1780 said:His suffering doesn't make me happy in the slightest, it's the fact that justice has been done that I like.
shart1780 said:Yes, the dead do deserve respect to a point, but Saddam was an EVIL man.
shart1780 said:The thing that gets to me is that a man who caused pain and suffering for millions of people and familes is getting more respect here today than the millions of other innocent people who live honest lives.
shart1780 said:To act like Saddam was somehow "misunderstood" is silly.
A_Wanderer said:A logical case can be made for proportional punishment, maybe some type of induced state of pure agony for the rest of his life - or a coma.
vaz02 said:So easy for us to forgive and let bygons be bygons but we were not his victims were we ?
He was our news and nothing more.
carrieluvv said:Axver.....so you want to have a RIP thread......then do so....why not just do it and walk away instead of having to comment on each and every comment that is made that you dont agree with.
just walk away......
vaz02 said:So easy for us to forgive and let bygons be bygons but we were not his victims were we ?
carrieluvv said:Axver's live journal...
Contradiction is balance
so i guess your in a happier place since your world has been rocked a little......
thank you saddam
indra said:
I don't think anyone here is forgiving him. Some are capable of seeing however, that he was human no matter how evil his actions.