Originally Posted by: Andrew Sayea I'm with Akira. I dont think he was a good person, and perhaps he even deserved to die...but who are we decide? Killing Saddam served no purpose but to illustrate the authority held by America.

I obviously dont agree with any of his sentiments, and feel that his tyrany was very wrong, but I dont think it should have been up to the rest of the world as to wether he was killed or not.[/quote]
It wasn't.

He was tried by Iraqis by laws designed by Iraqis in an Iraqi court and convicted by an Iraqi jury.

The only place I saw much American participation in his trial (outside of making it possible) was in his defense team.


By the way, I take it you're against international trials of War Criminals?


[QUOTE=Andrew Sa]Personally, I'm usually against the death penalty in all but the most extreme of cases...Prison should be seen as the correctional facility it was intended to be, and not as the punnishment as it is now perceived. Rehabilitation, not punnishment

Ah... historically speaking...

Prison as a means to rehabilitate criminals is a much more modern idea than prison as a means to punish criminals.

Then again, I'm stuck going by books and The History Channel here; perhaps you can tell me how good The Tower of London's weight room and library were?