Saddam Hussein

[fatboy]

What are they actually going to do with him now?

I take it he will be tried in America-but what punishment is he likely to get?

 

[Gotsmanov]

3 match suspension

 

[Beach Hut]

Probably see out his life on some island that will cost us taxpayers a fortune.

He could always recoup some of the cost with grecian 2000 adverts !

 

[Zeitgeist]

His crimes were commited in Iraq. Therefore he should stand trial in Iraq before his peers. simple.

 

[Beach Hut]

Disagree - he should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity.

Just like Milosevic and various others.

 

[Raphael Meade]

if your talking about 'paying for his crimes' surely he should also be tried in kuwait (for invading) and israel (firing missiles at them) as well??

 

[fatboy]

Milosevic was imprisoned for life?


I see they have started Saddam Hussein's punishment by shaving off his beard.

Maybe they could cut his toenails really really short tomorrow.

Then on Tuesday they could die his hair green and make him look really silly.

 

[Safeway]

Said on Five Live this morning that he will be tried in Iraq.

I'm going for 120 hours community service.

 

[DTES]

Originally posted by Beach Hut

Disagree - he should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity.

Yes. An international court. Not an American one.

 

[Raphael Meade]

green?!!

surely blue and white hair would be better?

we could use him as a macot and have him ruck cyril the swan...

 

[Gotsmanov]

Make him wear Chappers' pink shoes

 

[Trigger]

A slap on the wrist plus court costs.

 

[Beach Hut]

if your talking about 'paying for his crimes' surely he should also be tried in kuwait (for invading) and israel (firing missiles at them) as well??

Those are the types of crimes he should face punishment for and for totally ignoring human rights.

I suspect he may end up with some form of sentance like the guy who was held in a solitary prison in Germany on his own.

For the sake of humanity he must be punished for these dreadful crimes against fellow countrymen - no-one deserves that type of treatment ever.

 

[Safeway]

Got to say, fair play to the Yanks for not blowing his head off there and then. Bet the temptation was overwhelming.

No doubt they'll be bragging about it for the next hundred years but at least for the time being they're showing a bit of restraint.

Don't often say this, but, well done America.

 

[fatboy]

How do they punish him though?

A murderer would get a life sentence, a mass murderer would get a life(meaning life) sentence.

How do you find an appropriate sentence for what he did?

I'm sure life in a Irag/US prison will be much more fun than living down the hole he was found in.

 

[Raphael Meade]

tie him naked to a tree on clapham common on a friday night....

 

[Beach Hut]

A very fair comment and whatever the punishment it does not fit the crime.

Somehow maybe George Bush Senior should have had him interned after the first Gulf War - would have been far cheaper.

There is a bigger issue though that both US and UK backed him for a while so you could almost say neither have any right to decide a punishment.

I understand the US do not back an International Court ?

 

[Robot Chicken]

The death penalty? If it was good enough for Ceausescu it's good enough for Hussein. Hold the trial in the Netherlands like the Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi.

The star witness for the defence could be Bin Laden, live via satellite from his cave in Tora Bora...

 

[Beach Hut]

The Romanian death sentance was a agreed with no court action.

I wouldn't advocate that on anyone.

 

[Robot Chicken]

but do you agree that the death penalty in Hussein's case, after a proper trial, would be the most desirable action?

People have forgotten that if it wasn't for the perceived danger from the WMD we wouldn't have invaded in the first place.

Where are those WMD?