Saddam to Be Killed By Sunday

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I just find it indicative of our absolute bungling of Middle East policy that a secular madman now appears on track to becoming a martyr to the radical Islamists. The radical Islamists hated him as much as we did until we went in, deposed him, f*cked up reconstruction, thereby opening up Iraq as a breeding ground for them. Now I fear they're happy to use his death as a poster child to gather more foot soldiers against the West.

But I guess it depends on how you feel about the death penalty. If a man (or woman) is to be put to death, I think it should only be so that society as a whole is safer (Ted Bundy, the Broomstick Killer, etc. are to me, excellent examples of when the death penalty is necessary). In this case, I fear executing Saddam will not do that and may only incite violence.

But I'd be thrilled to be wrong on this one. Maybe he's been out of power long enough no one will care. I guess we'll find out soon.

GR.
After I saw a show how different families deal with the death of a convicted killer that had taken their loved one... I sorta got mixed up. A number of people cannot handle the fact that the killer lives, and go into serious depression, and a number of them actually commit suicide. The families that got their justice, came out very satisfied and went back to living a normal life. However, some families got no satisfaction whatsoever from the execution. In fact some felt worse, even though they wanted the killer executed.
So I focused more on the real victims, the living victims. And came out very confused.