Saddam's Execution

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Originally Posted by Afrobean

No, he just called for the invasion, occupation, and overthrow of the government of a country who, despite being anti-America, was actually not militaristically hostile toward us prior to this.

And, unless I'm mistaken, Saddam did not kill people just for "****s and giggles". He did it because he had something to gain from doing it. Obviously, that is still terrible, but killing with reason is better than without, even if the reason is not justifiable to others.

psSounds a lot like Bush's (and many other ignorant American rednecks) mentality towards the people of the middle east.

My bad, but i seem to remember a time not *too* long on the global scale when Saddam invaded a neighboring country then refused to give it back. Took a couple months of US positioning, 2 weeks of fighting and a pre-war trident surfacing to end that stand off :P Considering that plus the restrictions placed on him after said botched invasion, the 9/11 terror attacks, and the simple fact that the president is the son of the president who gave the orders to march on his country, i don't think its a far stretch of the imagination to think he would allow Al Qaeda members to hold up in Iraq. Granted Saddam wasn't a Mao (or even a Hitler for that matter) on the geonocide scale, thats still a hefty little chop off the top there.