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Sadam Hussein was just hanged

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Breaking news on ABC news.
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post #3 of 78
I just saw it too!
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I just went to sign in to my e-mail and saw that. I have to say I was suprised to see it done so fast! I don't quite have words yet....
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http://www.cnn.com/


But I want proof... sorry, I'm a skeptic
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Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles View Post
I just went to sign in to my e-mail and saw that. I have to say I was suprised to see it done so fast! I don't quite have words yet....
Exactly my thoughts
post #7 of 78
I didn't know until someone on yahoo msged me and told me
I can't help but say I want proof!
post #8 of 78
Wow they didn't waste any time did they
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They said they were going to video tape it and probably show the body to the counsel members. But I am glad one monster is gone many more in the world though.
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I thought they were doing it Monday. I dunno why? So I was shocked when I read that he was dead when I logged onto the internet.
post #11 of 78
It was on my homepage as soon as I opened by browser, and I don't have any explanation for it, or any predictions...but as soon as I read the headline I had a horribly dreadful feeling, like we haven't seen anything yet. I learned one thing while in Beirut in '83....that most westerners (me included) haven't the least clue as to how arabs and persians think, or how they will react. But I don't think it will be good.
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My thoughts are slowly coming into place. In a way this feels like the end to a chapter. I vividly remember getting the call that got me out of bed to go check the TV. DH was deployed, and in Baghdad, and they were breaking the news that Saddam had been captured. Now I'm hearing the news that he has been executed. Chapter closed....book finished?...that will take years even if there is no extra reaction to this.
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
It was on my homepage as soon as I opened by browser, and I don't have any explanation for it, or any predictions...but as soon as I read the headline I had a horribly dreadful feeling, like we haven't seen anything yet. I learned one thing while in Beirut in '83....that most westerners (me included) haven't the least clue as to how arabs and persians think, or how they will react. But I don't think it will be good.

I'm afraid his supporters will flip out... *puts on helmet and hides under desk*
post #14 of 78
I heard that.

I don't believe in "eye for an eye" and am against the death penalty for that reason and many others.

I know he has done some very heinous things, but he was still a human being and a husband, father, uncle, brother and son.

IMHO his death doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring back the people who were killed: it changes nothing that happened. I heard that people are dancing in the streets because he was hanged. However in my eyes, behaviour like that makes those people no different than what he was. Being happy that someone has died, regardless of who that person is, is terrible.
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
It was on my homepage as soon as I opened by browser, and I don't have any explanation for it, or any predictions...but as soon as I read the headline I had a horribly dreadful feeling, like we haven't seen anything yet. I learned one thing while in Beirut in '83....that most westerners (me included) haven't the least clue as to how arabs and persians think, or how they will react. But I don't think it will be good.
I thought the same thing. I was thinking oh great now what is going to happen next as payback for his death.
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
I heard that.

I don't believe in "eye for an eye" and am against the death penalty for that reason and many others.

I know he has done some very heinous things, but he was still a human being and a husband, father, uncle, brother and son.

IMHO his death doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring back the people who were killed: it changes nothing that happened. I heard that people are dancing in the streets because he was hanged. However in my eyes, behaviour like that makes those people no different than what he was. Being happy that someone has died, regardless of who that person is, is terrible.
I agree with you all the way, tho it may get me beat up here or elsewhere. I could not have said it any better than you.
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they are going to show footage on cnn what they can of it yuk
post #18 of 78
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I hope they don't take this hanging out on us. I am not thrilled about it, either. I think they should have put him in prison for life, but the hanging, I just don't believe in it.
post #19 of 78
I think the same thing.. What will be the retaliation for his death? When will the war end?
But I'm sure alot of us have the same questions
post #20 of 78
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
I heard that.

I don't believe in "eye for an eye" and am against the death penalty for that reason and many others.

I know he has done some very heinous things, but he was still a human being and a husband, father, uncle, brother and son.

IMHO his death doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring back the people who were killed: it changes nothing that happened. I heard that people are dancing in the streets because he was hanged. However in my eyes, behaviour like that makes those people no different than what he was. Being happy that someone has died, regardless of who that person is, is terrible.
I can't judge them for that. None of us can fully understand the atrocities he inflicted on "his" people, or what they endured under his regime for decades. IMO, he personified evil, and was barely human in my eyes. I don't celebrate the news of his death, but neither do I feel any sorrow...any more so than I would have felt for Hitler, or anyone of that ilk.

My concerns now are those in harm's way, the military & the innocent people of Iraq. They are the ones who would suffer because of those who would use this execution as an "excuse" for retaliation.
post #21 of 78
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
I heard that.

I don't believe in "eye for an eye" and am against the death penalty for that reason and many others.

I know he has done some very heinous things, but he was still a human being and a husband, father, uncle, brother and son.

IMHO his death doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring back the people who were killed: it changes nothing that happened. I heard that people are dancing in the streets because he was hanged. However in my eyes, behaviour like that makes those people no different than what he was. Being happy that someone has died, regardless of who that person is, is terrible.
Exactly. There are also several dictators and monsters running around the world who are doing things which are equally as horrible to their people, if not worse. I mean, I'm certainly not condoning the atrocities he committed by ANY means, but I don't see what makes him "special" compared to the world's other monsters.
post #22 of 78
I keep wondering why I don't feel overjoyed at this news like many others. I don't believe in capital punishment, although if anyone deserved to die for their crimes, he did. I guess I just can't rejoice at the death of someone, no matter what they did, or why they were executed.

I just think the whole thing is dreadfully sad - his life, his crimes, his demise. I don't think that taking a life (be it execution or otherwise, legal sentence or otherwise) is something to celebrate. I think it should be learned from and moved away from as quickly as possible.
post #23 of 78
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
I heard that.

I don't believe in "eye for an eye" and am against the death penalty for that reason and many others.

I know he has done some very heinous things, but he was still a human being and a husband, father, uncle, brother and son.

IMHO his death doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring back the people who were killed: it changes nothing that happened. I heard that people are dancing in the streets because he was hanged. However in my eyes, behaviour like that makes those people no different than what he was. Being happy that someone has died, regardless of who that person is, is terrible.
An "eye for an eye" is a weak comparison that falls flat if you know what the crime was. It's an eye for one-hundred-and-forty-eight eyes according to the hanging charges and that's an understatement considering all the other deaths they weren't able to charge him with. Nobody said his death would bring anyone back. Killing him stops him from ever doing it again, as well as prevents him from managing to command others to do it for him. That is a good change.

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Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva! View Post
I don't think that taking a life (be it execution or otherwise, legal sentence or otherwise) is something to celebrate. I think it should be learned from and moved away from as quickly as possible.
I totally agree. There's nothing to be joyous about here, but it needed to be done.
post #24 of 78
Well, i hope he really has taken his seat in hell, but i would like proof as well.
post #25 of 78
I feel really anxious, like I'm at the dentist but worse and really scared. I know its a good thing he is dead but what going to happen next? I feel like I could cry
post #26 of 78
Good riddance.

Bryan
post #27 of 78
You cant change the way those people think, for them its normal to have violence in their lives, we (most of us westerners) just live in a fairytale world.
post #28 of 78
Bad news...according to NPR, there have already been six carbombs this morning, one of them huge.

Worse news...the violence was already so bad in Iraq, that they can't tell if the violence this morning is retaliation for the hanging, or just business as usual.
post #29 of 78
I am very fearful for our troops. I am afraid that they will take the brunt of whatever is coming, and I do believe that something is coming and it is not going to be good. I wish stupid would bring our troops home.
post #30 of 78
I think that there is proof it was Sadaam that was hung.
I saw the film of him brought to the gallows in shackles. I saw the picture of him dead. I believe it was him. I think there will always be people that will say it wasn't him but I know it was him.
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