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    Quote Originally Posted by Strickland View Post
    At the risk of being accused of being a communist, executing Saddam could be an extremely bad move for the US. It may have been better for us to turn him over to the International Criminal Court as was done with Milosevic, Bagasora, Taylor, etc. If we refused to push for Idi Amin's extradition before his death, or the criminal prosecution and extradition of Tak Mo, Pol Pot, or Mengistu, it may appear to Muslims that we only execute Muslim autocrats.
    He was tried by an Iraqi court and will be executed by the Iraqi Government.

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    He was arrested by American soldiers and held in an American prison with American guards . . . .

    Anyway, facts don't matter here. If the Iraqi government (or the American government) had decided to grant a reprieve, the insurgents would proclaim victory because we were too scared to go through with it. Or that the government was corrupt and thus must be destroyed, etc. What matters to the insurgent is continuing their narrative, whatever it is.

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