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- vault, on 02/29/2008, -11/+32The man's a disgusting human being...good riddance.
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -2/+16Maybe this time they'll do it properly, instead of the chanting mob whose hanging of Saddam Hussein made HIM look like the dignified one.
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -5/+14I think it's perfectly allright to execute people clearly beyond redemption, like anyone who gets sentenced (with water-tight proof though) for over 20 years or so in jail should be executed, sitting in jail they're just waste of space and a burden for society. We should have that more widely used here in western countries too, it's the only good thing I can think of about the middle-eastern countries.
Jails are filling up, like was in that article about every 100th American has been to or is in jail. And the society gets a two-way punishment for getting the crime and then having to pay for that person's luxurious life in prison. - p51d007, on 02/29/2008, -1/+10Oh yes it does! It deters crime! The person put to death (or as you mistakenly call it murder), will NEVER NEVER EVER do it
again. - inactive, on 02/29/2008, -2/+10Bond does it.
- KataLieb, on 02/29/2008, -1/+8Amerika World Police have killed over 50 million people in the wars theyve been involved in since WW 2.
These guys are simple amateurs in comparison. - Delphium226, on 02/29/2008, -3/+10The term is 'exact justice' not 'extract justice'.
- friez, on 02/29/2008, -1/+8I think my favorite memory of 'Chemical Ali' was his fight against 'Chemical Frazier' in the Thrilla in Manila. It was two warriors going after each other with such veracity, it was hard to believe they lived to talk about it later.
- colin8651, on 02/29/2008, -0/+7Getting rid of them does
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -3/+10Letting them live makes the world a bad place.
- warnergt, on 02/29/2008, -2/+8Remember back in World War II when the U.S. sided with Stalin who is arguably the bloodiest dictator ever?
It was for a good reason. - warnergt, on 02/29/2008, -6/+12Simply not true. Saddam Hussein started two wars that killed over 2 million people.
Thanks to Saddam Hussein and his cohorts like Chemical Ali, Iraqis were dying at a higher rate than they are now -- even when they weren't fighting a war.
When was the last time a murderous, bloody, oppressive dictator and his thugs were brought to justice? Without George W. Bush, it never would have happened.
If Viend had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be putting hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (men, women and children) in mass graves. In his world, murderers should be free and those who work to stop them are the criminals.. - SirDaniel, on 02/29/2008, -2/+8Yay for democratic killing! :(
- RaDeus, on 02/29/2008, -4/+9id rather take a bullet to the head then do life in prison, hes getting off easy if you ask me...
- Asianwaste, on 02/29/2008, -1/+5My favorite name for the Iraqi Information Minister (remember the guy that assured everyone the war is going great for Iraq) has always been "Comical Ali".
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -15/+19Iraq is fortunate to not be filled with cultural Marxists like America. It must be nice to be able to extract justice without the liberals and the ACLU undermining your every effort.
- kirbicle, on 02/29/2008, -12/+16Please, grow up and think for your self instead of what the media trains you think. More people would have died if we DIDN'T have President Bush.
- airiox, on 02/29/2008, -3/+7Iraq isn't that deluded like the rest of the Arab world. They are about as moderate as Muslims come, in terms of religious zealotry and fundamentalism. Hanging him is the act of a just society and gives the family of the victims closure.
- maffiou, on 02/29/2008, -10/+14The problem with killing people, is that this makes you a murderer as well... So not in my name, thanks.
Thankfully, I live in countries where death penalty isn't an option... - Takfam, on 02/29/2008, -2/+6Yes, because as we all know, America NEVER convicts the wrong person. We are infallible and if you say we're not, we'll sue/kill you. Just like scientology.
- alkajazz, on 02/29/2008, -1/+5Your hatred and spite makes you no better than this man.
- KataLieb, on 02/29/2008, -1/+5Awful lot of bloodthirsty peasants on the market square today.
- ventralnet, on 02/29/2008, -0/+4Stop using reason... partisan politics is about making blind statements that favor one side or the other.
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -8/+11Remember back in the 1980's when Reagan and Rummy removed Iraq from the list of "terrorist" countries and sold them all kinds of arms? Chemical Ali sure remembers.
- remotehuman, on 03/01/2008, -0/+3To everyone above talking about everyone that sold them weapons: WE ARE AMERICA, WE CAN SELL ARMS TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND LET THEM PLAY WAR AND WE HAVE NO LIABILITY, BUT ONCE THE WEAPONS TURN ON US, IF JUST ONCE, THEN THE OTHER COUNTRY(S) WILL FACE SEVERE PUNISHMENT, AND BE ON HIGH ALERT. THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THEM THE WEAPONS ARE SAINTS AND SHOULD NOT BE FROWNED UPON, HOW SHOULD THEY HAVE KNOWN, THERE WASNT ANYTHING SLIPPING INTO THERE POCKET.
God Bless the american way.
[/sarcasm] - Testiculese, on 02/29/2008, -5/+8kirbicle, the 911 terrorists wee from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We are killing peopl ein...
Ready?
Iraq.
Do ya get it? - mooseclamps, on 02/29/2008, -2/+5Lots of anti "left" propaganda on digg today. Can't you guys actually make a statement/point without adding some blanket statement about the "left" that doesn't even apply?
- BabyWookie, on 03/01/2008, -0/+3Not as ironic as having a US presidential front-runner that rhymes with "Osama" and has "Hussein" as his middle name. LOL.
- inactive, on 02/29/2008, -3/+6Thank you. Its amazing that the left cannot think in such a rationale way.
- warnergt, on 02/29/2008, -5/+8The U.S. never sold chemical weapons to Iraq. The chemicals sold had legitimate agricultural uses. If the U.S. hadn't sold them, Europe gladly would have.
The lefty apologists for murderous dictators on Digg only have trouble with the U.S. legally selling items to Iraq that were diverted for killing. When it is illegally obtained items from other countries, they defend it (e.g. aluminum tubes with properties exactly like those used to enrich uranium). - beernutz, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3Anyone else notice the irony of the President of Iraq who has a last name of "Talabani"? Yes, i know it is spelled differently, but i still find it ironic.
- ventralnet, on 02/29/2008, -1/+4@ElAssoWipo
Racist - SirDaniel, on 02/29/2008, -0/+3it was not a pussy that stood up, without weapons, to the (former...) british empire.
- kirbicle, on 02/29/2008, -3/+6To answer your question. Chemical Ali and his kind used to not hate America so much. They were eyed by many countries because of their oil reserves. We supplied them with arms to protect them from Russia and many other countries that wanted to control Iraq. It wasn't until the '90s when we discovered that Iraq was using those weapoms to attack Israel. So we stopped helping them as much, we still had to keep peace with them because of oil, but we cut their funding drastically. Clinton funded the terrorists more than President Bush has.
- BabyWookie, on 03/01/2008, -0/+3I wonder if they only "tried" him for some lesser crime and then stopped, like they did with Saddam, because some of the bigger crimes had US involvement. It wouldn't look good for the US, if it came out that we supplied the equipment for making that nasty VX gas.
- dimplemonkey, on 02/29/2008, -6/+9Don't you just love how we've helped advance democracy in that country? Yay, for US!
- KataLieb, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2And that reason was?
- airburst, on 02/29/2008, -1/+3Nice of you to not include WWII or your home country would be on top.
Germany will lead the world for a long time in the number of babies and children murdered. - kirbicle, on 02/29/2008, -2/+4this is very true.
- BabyWookie, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, it seems that you are not joking.
- BabyWookie, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2Yeah. If only the US could execute people as freely as The People's Republic of China, with no liberal commies able to get in the way! Wait, "cultural Marxists"? ***** caulous, right-winger *****. Who's digging this Ann Coulter wanna-be up, any way?
- napalmx, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2How many countries do you live in!?
- ventralnet, on 02/29/2008, -2/+4some peopel are beyond help
- justice7, on 02/29/2008, -2/+4try the Koran
- ramo13, on 02/29/2008, -1/+3o rly?
- SirDaniel, on 03/01/2008, -1/+3Nah, I'm too busy humping your mom.
(that was the correct retort wasn't it? I do so hope I got it right!!) - inactive, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2Oh come on, race means family now? I'm sure you know very well that this definition isn't even remotely accurate and especially, figurative.
And in any case, 1 in 100 Americans are in prison. If it's an unjust generalization it's the most accurate unjust generalization ever made. You're talking about a country with such a violence problem that they are considering allowing students to bring their own firearms in school to protect themselves from the next psychopath. - LeeSoong, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2" Dual Use " technology - like in Lord of War ?
Hardly:
http://www.counterpunch.org/boles1010.html
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming ...
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/03/27/119547 ...
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/001853.html
http://mondediplo.com/2003/02/03usiraqweapons
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/ ...
The nice thing about military dictators - they make steady customers . . . - KataLieb, on 02/29/2008, -2/+4I sure remember. Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands, smiling...US supplied chemicals for the war with Iran..
Seems many people have memories as short as a goldfish's.
Yesterdays buddy is tomorrows patsy. - SirDaniel, on 02/29/2008, -4/+6And that just proves how ***** up law is.
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