Comments on: Saddam is Dead; Long Live Saddam http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/2006/12/30/saddam-is-dead-long-live-saddam/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:33:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sean Scullion http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/2006/12/30/saddam-is-dead-long-live-saddam/#comment-247 Sean Scullion Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:33:01 +0000 http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/?p=80#comment-247 Once I found out that he was actually sentenced to death, I figured it wouldn't take too long. First, it shows the Iraqi people that their Shiny Happy New Government can Get Things Done. Second, it showed that he's not coming back to power. Once I found out that he was actually sentenced to death, I figured it wouldn’t take too long. First, it shows the Iraqi people that their Shiny Happy New Government can Get Things Done. Second, it showed that he’s not coming back to power.

]]> By: Jerry Chandler http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/2006/12/30/saddam-is-dead-long-live-saddam/#comment-238 Jerry Chandler Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:18:30 +0000 http://billmyerscreations.com/blog/?p=80#comment-238 I'm pro death penalty. I still think this was wrong, but likely for the wrong reasons. Saddam in prison was possibly a useful tool. Saddam as martyr IS a useful tool. Just not our tool. Our only saving grace here is that Saddam's supporters are not as religiously extreme or fanatical as some others in the Middle East. Still, his more militant loyalists will likely use this as a rallying point in the same way that we in the West might use a fallen war leader as a symbol on the battlefield. It could become the Iraqi version of, "get out there and win one for the Gipper!" I’m pro death penalty. I still think this was wrong, but likely for the wrong reasons. Saddam in prison was possibly a useful tool. Saddam as martyr IS a useful tool. Just not our tool. Our only saving grace here is that Saddam’s supporters are not as religiously extreme or fanatical as some others in the Middle East. Still, his more militant loyalists will likely use this as a rallying point in the same way that we in the West might use a fallen war leader as a symbol on the battlefield.

It could become the Iraqi version of, “get out there and win one for the Gipper!”

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