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Originally posted by Azred:
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Originally posted by Animal:
Perhaps they did deserve to die but it's not for me or you to decide that much less celebrate it. In doing so, we become no better than the very same people that are hunted for that exact same behaviour. Maybe there's a little "Hussein" in all of us?
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To whom should the "power of life and death" belong? God? [img]graemlins/erm.gif[/img] I didn't see God doing anything to stop their evil actions, and no one else was doing anything either.
If you may not celebrate the end of an evil, then what may one celebrate? Didn't everyone celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the West? [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img]
Of course there is a little Hussein in all of us. Like I said earlier, at least I realize and accept that, but I don't focus on it. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]The power of life and death belongs to everyone and no one, NOT the one group. As for God, that's a topic for another thread, not this one.
Celebrating the end of a human life whether evil or not, is barbaric when it is celebrated for the wrong reasons, as this has been. I did not know the Hussein boys, they did me no wrong, I do not celebrate their death. Maybe they deserved what they got, who is to say? Me, you...is anybody on this forum qualified to determine the fitness of another human being to live or die. No, that is for a jury of peers to decide. That is what the US is occupying Iraq for, right? Freedom, the right to a fair trial?
The one thing that disturbs me the most though, is how the war has played out. The hunt for Saddam continue, his sons presumably dead...the card game is almost over. You would think that the perp behind 9/11 would be a much more wanted man than the family of someone who had nothing to do with it, or is this , once again, cowboy justice...I'm still unsure of how Iraq was a direct threat to the US national security? Maybe someone can explain it to me.