Now that quite a bit of time has passed , what was the point of hanging

[blues90]

Saddam ? Is anyone better off for it ? It seems to me like this is one of the bush benchmarks and another thing lost down the memory hole .

[Warpy]

1. Shutting him up

plus giving the Shi'ites their revenge.

[Union Thug]

13. Spot on. Dead men tell no tales. n/t

[Rex]

2. To make sure he didn't tell anyone what he knew about Rummy

Reagan, Bush and all the other dirty shit that happened from the 70s until the present.

Silence is golden to war criminals.

[LakeSamish706]

3. The honesty of this whole thing is George W wanted to get even with Saddam...

for putting a hit out on his daddy, and no other reason IMHO. I think that he had this in mind since that hit was mentioned long before he became President.

[Lex]

4. What was the point of invading his country and blowing everything the hell up?

The hanging of Saddam sickened me.

[kurth]

5. Cuz Bush wanted to make sure he could keep Saddam's pistol

[gratuitous]

6. So Bush could show off

Somehow, if you go to the most immature, juvenile reason you can think of, it always fits for President Peter Pan, the Frat Boy Who Never Grew Up.

[hlthe2b]

7. I find the entire event grotesque and sickening...

Fine, fine, fine... He was a malevolent dictator. I get all that. But, given what we (DUers) knew then and what the entire world now knows re: WMD and his intentions to negotiate exile, I find the whole episode undeniably a travesty to justice.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. To make Bush appear as a tough pResident.

[Zorra]

9. Yeah, nobody would be better off if Bu*h got hung, either. But life in prison

might seriously deter other aspiring fascist war criminals that wanted to follow in Bu*h's footsteps.

[pansypoo53219]

10. oedipal

so georgie could show momee he was better than his dad, who actually went to war and actually made the better decision not to invade iWaq. tho, considering april glaspie, maybe they should have hung her.
damn. i really shouldn't remember this shit.

[SoCalDem]

11. Dead Men Tell No Tales n/t

[K Gardner]

12. Georgie was missin' presidin' over all them execushuns

Like he did back in Texas. Heard it was the only way he could get a boner. S'why he led this glorious nation in execushunism. He's the Decider AND the Executioner.

[JVS]

14. When overturning an old government, an execution says "there's no going back"