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Originally posted by NICKG
I am against it in this case. We have enough bad feelings within the arab states. Saddam should have been placed in custody of Iraq and tried by them as he was, but additionally by his arab peers. We (the US) should have nothing to do with it. It is too coincidental to me that his death sentence is announced 3 days before an election here
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Saddam
was tried by an Iraqi court. Ok, it was a system set up by the US, but someone had to do it. The judge was Iraqi, the lawyers were Iraqi.
FTR, I was/am opposed to the Iraq war (leave this discussion for another thread if you want to take this up with me, even though I'm sick to death of it, but let's not hijack this thread) and am generally anti-capital punishment, but there's no argument that Saddam's not a nice guy, and now that he's caught, I say string him up, and do it publicly.