I think it's clear now that this was the PR statement Bush was looking for since the very beginning. "We went in there, we took down Hussein, and he is now dead." Little did he know that it would cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars and basically many intangible expenditures of the United States' international influence and prestige. Was this worth it, you ape? I'd love to hear his response.

Was it worth it? Hell no. And I think that now, after Saddam has been held accountable for his role in the death of tens of thousands, I think Bush should be held accountable for the same.

I'm guessing President Bush doesn't waste much time on the Gangster BB...so I'll step in & respond for him.

First of all, Saddam's execution by no means represents and END to the war on terror. It goes on without him, as it did while he hid out before his capture and for the past 3 years of his imprisonment and trial.

Second, yes it is ALL worth it.

What's most fun about this well-deserved execution than anything is the watching the steady stream of Bush-haters come out and rant with anger as if Saddam being put to death by the Iraqi's NOT the Americans...is in some way a BAD thing.

Carry on

Apple

"As American and Iraqi officials met in Baghdad to set the hour of his death, Saddam's lawyers asked a U.S. judge for a stay of execution. It was rejected.

The governments of Yemen and Libya made eleventh hour appeals that Saddam's life be spared."


By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Not the Americans eh?

One question:

Do you smoke crack?

While I am not a big Bush (try not to think naughty) supporter, the world is a better place without Saddam. Only if we (America) had enough willing people, and resources there are still a few bad people I wish we could hang the same way.

I have no opinion on Bush, good or bad. Had America not invaded and occupied Iraq, Saddam wouldn't have been hanged today. Iraqi public opinion was always divided due to Shia-Sunni conflict. It was utilized well against Saddam by America in justifying its role in Iraq. Whatever you tell me, I have my own doubts about the autonomy of the current Iraqi govt. As long as America has presence is in Iraq, where it had no business to start with, nothing that happens there is truly 'Iraqi' IMO. Why should American officials be anywhere in the picture in Saddam hanging? And also this trial has seen a lot of not-so-democratic things. Defense lawyers getting killed and a judge removed because he was favoring Saddam. That he got hanged so soon (as compared to many death sentences where they stretch the execution by many years, allowing umpteen reviews and mercy petitions) is surprising. Again I don't hate or love Bush. And also I really don't care about Saddam. He could have as well died earlier for his crimes. But to claim that Iraqi people unanimously decided to get Saddam executed for his crimes is false and laughable. To respond to the obligatory laughing smiley in your posts,

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Maybe to you it was not worth it. But perhaps to the thousands and thousands of Iraqi people and the Kurds whose families Saddam intentionally abused, tortured and murdered, it was worth it. Maybe to thsoe people who were afraid that Saddam would come back into power and continue with his atrocities against 100's of thousands of human lives. it was worth it.

It's almost laughable that you want to compare someone like George W. Bush to an evil scumbag like Saddam.




I had to hold my stomach from laughing so hard when I read that statement! Yemen and Lybia? Was the Iraqi government supposed to respect a request by those terrorists? Are we supposed to hold their opinion in such high regard? Now if you said a country like Gret Britain, Australia, etc. made that kind of request, then it may have been something to consider.

Yeah, Saddam deserved another chance because he was such a great contributor to humanity.



Don Cardi

It is showing me some Arabic website, can't read it.

Jesus fucking Christ, can we at least be semi-respectful? The man is fucking dead. I don't care what he did, it's ridiculously immature that since the execution, the right-winged sphere of the forum has made his name synonymous with "scumbag".

Scumbags are not all that bad: LINK

Yes, indeed. The scum bag is useful and has value. I therefore join the argument that the right wing elements refrain from calling Saddam a scumbag as it is an insult to all scum bags.

How can you possibly compare President Bush to Saddam Hussein? Does President Bush have vats of boiling oil in the basement of the White House? Does he rape and torture those he feels are inferior or who he claims are his enemies? Does he have our military dig mass graves for the bodies of those he's slaughtered?

I am no huge fan of President Bush, but comparing him to Saddam Hussein is patently absurd. Do I agree with this war? No. Do I agree with some of his policies? No, but you cannot possibly even mention the two in the same sentence, as a comparison.

And saying that the right wing has come out of the woodwork since Saddam's execution and delighted in calling him a scumbag, and that anyone should have respect for him because he's DEAD??? Isn't that the greatest hypocrisy of all? He was a murdering madman when he was alive and in power, and now he's a dead one. His death doesn't change what he was, or make him worthy of anyone's respect.

The same is true of Jesus Christ. Shouldn't he be shown the same respect you're asking for Saddam?

That's two good long laughs that I've gotten out of two posts in this thread!!!!!

This is the most respect I think someone like Saddam will get, and truthfully these posts may be a bit too knd for a piece of shit like him :







Now if you really want to feel compassion for someone undeservingly being tortured and sentenced to death, I suggest that you watch "The Passion Of The Christ."


I'll save my tears for Christ, the Soldiers and the innocent Iraqis and Kurds who were victims of his ruthlessness. Fuck Saddam.



Don Cardi

I think when someone neglects his responsibility to tend to his personal hygiene and stops shaving and taking care of his hair, and then goes around telling people he is the son of God, he sort of loses his credentials for respect.

I mean, I know plenty of people who do the same thing. They currently reside on the Uptown to the Bronx.

it's a link to a picture...

here it is:

Hitler's dead too.

I still think he's an asshole.

Saddam is dead now...

Who's next on Bush's list?

Okay. Let me get this straight. Jesus deserves no respect, but you argue that we all should show some respect for Saddam.

Sounds like you're spending a little too much time with your pals on the Uptown.

Well, even though Saddam is guilty of ethnic cleansing, according to LLC, Jesus had poor hygiene. What can you expect??

That's not all. I hear he was a bit loose too.

Now if you don't mind me, I'm going to go set up some candles, drink pigs-blood, and listen to "Stairway to Heaven" backwards. Care to join?

Why not.

Nice. Be at my place at 7... Tis the hour of the devil. And they air reruns of Fraiser at 8. Oh, and bring a virgin to sacrifice.

LMAO

But a man who goes around gasing thousands of people, raping hundreds of woman, torturing thousands of people, burying thousands of children, and killing thousands and thousands of people deserves respect in your eyes, but a person who neglects his personal hygene (don't know where you got that one from, but I'll respond to it just to make a point) doesn't?




Don Cardi

The Sultinate of Oman, I think.



Don Cardi

long_lost_corleone, I think that it's time for you to show a little respect to people who happen to believe in Christianity. You're getting a little carried away now and it's really disrespectful to some people when you make disgusting remarks like that about the God that they worship and believe in. Show a little bit of class.

Don Cardi

Himself....someone should seriously hang him too.

Nice to see there are other Arabs around here. (I'm Egyptian)