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To: Bill who wrote (212368)	1/10/2007 2:21:14 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

This is apparently going to be a political football for some time to come. Saddam's reign was brutal and filled with heinous acts of oppression, torture, killing, and genocidal slaughter. That somehow rises above the word 'repugnent' in my mind. I'm not sure if I can even come up with a word that is fair and accurate in describing how I feel about his conduct. Which is why I also come short of any method that society could use to effectively resolve our issues with him, except to be done with him as a member of humanity having any status except dead and gone. I am boggled even further as to why people want to compare the circumstance of his execution with his conduct in life. We didn't treat him as badly as he treated others. So? What does that have to do with anything? I'd prefer not to use his conduct as a measure of how bad mine is allowed to be (or other peoples are) because that would leave way more lee way than I am comfortable with. His death was not executed in a manner that I would like to see a new Irag justice system marked by. Nor should a flawed execution be compared with his conduct, to make it somehow acceptable.