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keire_keHussein was executed today, in order, as I suspect, to promote peace, justice and law. I must admit death penalty is not exactly something I have clear and defined feelings about. Some criminals made me wish for their deaths, yeah, but on the whole I would sign a petition prohibiting it (not that the EU didn't do it for me already). Death is too permanent to be considered lightly, ever. Now life sentence is a wholly different thing - some individuals should not be allowed out.
Back to Hussein though. Since I didn't follow the trial, I can't honestly say that I think he deserved it. I don't know enough. Yeah, he probably made many lives a living hell, knowingly or not. Catholic church made many lives a living hell, and I don't see anyone sending their troops to Vatican1. But the fact is, this whole war was to prove how much more civilised "we" are, compared to "them". Hanging makes a sorry period at the end of that sentence.
1 Excluding Switzerland, but they always liked to be different.
*steps off box* Thank you.
Back to Hussein though. Since I didn't follow the trial, I can't honestly say that I think he deserved it. I don't know enough. Yeah, he probably made many lives a living hell, knowingly or not. Catholic church made many lives a living hell, and I don't see anyone sending their troops to Vatican1. But the fact is, this whole war was to prove how much more civilised "we" are, compared to "them". Hanging makes a sorry period at the end of that sentence.
1 Excluding Switzerland, but they always liked to be different.
*steps off box* Thank you.
