Hanging Saddam would cause chaos

Thornbird · #11 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 09:54 AM

No matter what happens to Saddam, there is going to be hell to pay, because he will never walk away a free man. Sure they can hang him, but if you think it is screwed up over there now, it will be completely fubar then.

Gulf war 1 vet · #12 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 10:08 AM

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But, did GW1 have the backing he needed back then? I know current GW2 sure doesn't. This war has been used as fodder for every argument by the left since the day it began, and blamed for every problem in the country, up to and including Pelosi's latest rump side pimple outbreak.

Hey Kix, if GW1 had pushed home that 'home run', we wouldn't have lost over 2000 boys in this war. It has been over 3 years since the "Freedom for Iraq campagain" began, and you know what, I feel sorry for the average GI, thier fighting a war, that seems to have no end.

Kix · #13 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 10:27 AM

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Hey Kix, if GW1 had pushed home that 'home run', we wouldn't have lost over 2000 boys in this war. It has been over 3 years since the "Freedom for Iraq campagain" began, and you know what, I feel sorry for the average GI, thier fighting a war, that seems to have no end.

My son is one of those "average GI's" and just recently returned home from his second 1 year tour. Even though he says it's going to be a long struggle to help Iraq recover from the last 10 years under Hussein’s iron thumb, he doesn't seem to see it as a never ending war or a war that cannot be won. There's a LOT of "gloom and doom" propaganda being put out there by those who serve their little god George Soros and that's what really angers most of the guys coming back now. They're sick and tired of going over there and dealing with what is really happening and then coming back here to news that it's ten times worse than it is and that THEY are failing at everything. This generation, sadly, is beginning to understand exactly what the Vietnam Vets went through and that infuriates me.

Gulf war 1 vet · #14 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 10:49 AM

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My son is one of those "average GI's" and just recently returned home from his second 1 year tour. Even though he says it's going to be a long struggle to help Iraq recover from the last 10 years under Hussein’s iron thumb, he doesn't seem to see it as a never ending war or a war that cannot be won. There's a LOT of "gloom and doom" propaganda being put out there by those who serve their little god George Soros and that's what really angers most of the guys coming back now. They're sick and tired of going over there and dealing with what is really happening and then coming back here to news that it's ten times worse than it is and that THEY are failing at everything. This generation, sadly, is beginning to understand exactly what the Vietnam Vets went through and that infuriates me.

Saddam has been in power for the last 40 years, it would have been over 14 years ago, if my generation of servicemen had been allowed to complete the mission. I have no doubt that our boys are doing the best they can, I just worry that thier mission is flawed.

Still Dizzy · #15 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 10:50 AM

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I was kind of thinking more along the lines of them secretly inducing a coma and putting his icky butt on life support. That would prevent him from dying of any natural causes he might have come up and it would give a little insurance that no one would try to storm the prison and set him free somewhere down the road.

Now THAT is a good idea!

Chateauroux · #16 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 11:29 AM

[quote=ladyofmts;41545]Saddam deserves to be hung, but I do think it would cause chaos.

Not being a nitpicker but laundry in hung, people are hanged.

oceanbreeze · #17 (**permalink**) 10-06-2006, 04:51 PM

Kix: Well said and again thank you to you and your son.

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Originally Posted by Kix

My son is one of those "average GI's" and just recently returned home from his second 1 year tour. Even though he says it's going to be a long struggle to help Iraq recover from the last 10 years under Hussein’s iron thumb, he doesn't seem to see it as a never ending war or a war that cannot be won. There's a LOT of "gloom and doom" propaganda being put out there by those who serve their little god George Soros and that's what really angers most of the guys coming back now. They're sick and tired of going over there and dealing with what is really happening and then coming back here to news that it's ten times worse than it is and that THEY are failing at everything. This generation, sadly, is beginning to understand exactly what the Vietnam Vets went through and that infuriates me.