Here's an interesting editorial from the Arab News (I'm really beginning to like this news source although it's a bit two-minded in regard to America.) This is a more complicated question to ponder than one would initially think. Plus, I love the Churchill quote.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">What to Do With Saddam? The Debate Has Begun
Amir Taheri, Arab News Staff
PARIS, 17 December 2003 â?? When the Nazi leaders were captured by allied troops at the end of the World War II, Winston Churchill knew what had to be done.
I dunno, I think there's a fortune to be made from a reality TV show with him, Noriega and Milosevic in a Malibu beachhouse. Watch the fur fly! *Hey! Which one of you despots ate the last of the pastries that Jacques sent me?!1*
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Vander: Simple. Take him to the center of Baghdad.... and let him go.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yes! That's what I've been saying all along... drop him in downtown Baghdad with a dozen Louisville sluggers.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Vander: Simple. Take him to the center of Baghdad.... and let him go.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
While I am one to gleefully send Saddam to his demise, there is a problem with that. The day he dies...he becomes a martyr. I think the Iraqi's should handle and mete out what justice they deem best for uncle Saddam. They should have a trial and expose to all those anti-war and socialist liberals the extent of the mans crimes. Exhibit in exquisit detail the rapes and tortures that were done at his and his dememted sons behest. Let those that think they still support this monster be shamed by what is presented. If it takes the rest of Saddams lifetime to showcase what a abominable inhuman person he is, so be it. Maybe after awhile the magnitude of what he has wrought will finally sink into that walled off human part of Saddam's brain. When the realization that humanity thinks of him as no great person of stature, then condemn him to life in prison. Death will be but a gift for him.
i say , do everything he had done to the people. lets see, this includes, dropping him from a rooftop, whipping, beating with heavy sticks and poles, raping him , uhh....he doesnt have any daughters does he? if so rape them aswell in front of him, id have to look up the things he did to people. thats what i would do.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Tyranny: Then that makes you no better then him.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
hey hey, i just gave my opinion. no need to put me down for it
No, Dedman. He wouldn't last 5 seconds. They'd run over him repeatedly with a '53 Packard Clipper.
But seriously, I totally agree with Woodchip. Killing him would turn him into a martyr which would please his still remaining followers and apologists to no end. He should be locked up in a prison something like Leavenworth where he can sit and think about it for the rest of his miserable existance.
Vader is on to something. Here's how to get justice and rebuild Iraq. We set up a dunk tank with Saddam over a pool of sulfuric acid, and charge 25 cents for people to chuck a ball at the target. Boom...money into Iraq's economy and instant morale-booster. Its perfect!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Beowulf: Vader is on to something. Here's how to get justice and rebuild Iraq. We set up a dunk tank with Saddam over a pool of sulfuric acid, and charge 25 cents for people to chuck a ball at the target. Boom...money into Iraq's economy and instant morale-booster. Its perfect!</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
That would kill him way too quick. I was thinking somewhere along the lines of a world dunk-tank tour where saddam is in a dunk tank, with all the money collected to help pay for some of the deficit were creating to fund the iraq occupation.
No, that would be no good either. He'd be accused by Bush of trying to make WMD out of the chicken noodle again and we'd end up invading the kitchen he was in to steal their oil and...er...nevermind.
I think they should hand em over to Saudi Arabia or better yet Kuwati. Let his fellow Arabs give him thier brand of justice and not have to deal with trials and such.
Drop him in the middle of New York Central Park in a "Little Bo Peep" outfit and mount cameras everywhere to catch the footage. Then mount an electrified fence all the way around and charge admission to hunt him down armed only with a cattle prod. Upon capture, you are permitted to do anything you want to do to him short of anything lethal. (because that would spoil the fun for everyone else) Once you run this for a couple of days....go on a nation-wide tour.
Then when the tour is finished, duct tape claymore mines to him (facing towards him of course), drop him in the middle of Arizona and hold an auction on who gets the remote detonator to blow his ass to pieces. We'd have our fun with Saddam, and be rich as hell while we're at it! Then take that money, and put it to good use....like give it all to NASA.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by [NuB] Dedman: Bath him in liquified pig fat</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
And if you feel particularly nasty, cut him in several places and make sure the fat is extra salty.
Seriously though, I think it would be best if he was tried in his own country by his own people. Justice in Muslim countries tends to be quick and harsh, the last thing we need is for a long drawn out trial that would happen if he was tried in an international court.