Well said. I’m at work or I’d lift a glass with you.

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with rejoicing when someone dies. You can rejoice when someone who is suffering finally passes on to a better place. You can rejoice in the memory of a loved one when they move on to the next life. You can also rejoice when you know that someone whose every waking moment was spent hurting, killing, raping, or in some fashion destroying the lives of others has finally lost their ability to continue that process permanently.

That would put the fear in modern day tyrants.

Evil in this case was finally subdued.

[SailorDave] I’ve struggled with this. He, through his own epic acts of depravity and disregard for ANY human life, made himself inhuman to me. In that regard, I feel no more remorse or guilt over his death than I do for the death of a comic book villain. He was surreal in his evil.

And I’m sure hundreds of thousands+ will feel almost cheated, that his death was so quick and painless. Feeding him into a paper shredder a couple inches at a time, feet first, would have been more Saddam’s speed. We really need to put these guys – the deranged-left establishment – in touch with the viotims of Saddam’s brutality machine, let them choke on their own words as they patronize them, trying to explain what the proper, more ethical treatment of Mr. Hussein should have been…

What I find ironic is the far left folks (and, apparently, some European leaders) who feel that executing a man who is directly responsible for the deaths of countless thousands is wrong, but do not hesitate to support the right of a mother to kill a baby who has never drawn a breath.

Or the right to suffocate an elder who doesn’t come up with a snappy enough retort to the question, “mind if I turn off this ventilator??”

And you’ve sharpened my thinking on the subject. I just raised a glass of my favorite aqua minerale a min. ago and joined in the toast: damnation & salvation!

Who exactly is Karla Faye Tucker? I don’t know the details of surrounding Bush’s “worst public moment,” but from the link it looks like even what is “known” is in dispute. Without defending it, I would say that, as was said above, we are talking about degree. If KFT was a serial killer, and if one of her victims had said to her “Please don’t kill me” she probably would not have heeded the plea. Moreover, the tone of GWB’s expression would be pertinent: if it was anger and/or disgust, then I don’t see anything wrong with what happened.

Sorry if this position is a bit too “barbaric” and thus offensive, but I think our society may be becoming a little too “civilized” (read feminized) for our own good. When people are mildly offended by my demeanor (which is admittedly rare) I take it as a bit of a compliment.

I feel no glee, I feel no real satisfaction that he is gone. Actually, I DO even feel a little pity for him…… and even some sadness… (Notsadness because he is gone, but because he and all other murderous tyrants are ever allowed to exist at all.)

I wouldn’t have watched his execution for any vicarious thrill OR sense of justice. I don’t plan to view the videos of it, ever.

Nonetheless, I, myself, would have been willing to act as his executioner…. Simply because it was a necessary and practical task for the general ‘good’ of the world.

As for the Bush comment on Karla Faye, I can understand how some people felt that it would be his worst moment. After reading what Karla Faye did though, his comment does not bother me…the things she did were so evil beyond belief that I could not even finish reading how she murdered.

That would have called for less ‘sterilized and pedantic’ handling for later/now. Also, it would have prevented so many more deaths on all sides.

Notice how THeDRiFTeR doesn’t come back with “non, I’m not for the execution of Mr. Bush”.

The reaction from most of the media, the Vatican, the ‘illustrious’ and ‘powerful’ European leaders, some current/former Middle Eastern or North-African tyrants and insane leftie bloggers is simply amusing and proof that this nightmare is over.

Not to forget our elitist, civilized and superior trolls. If only they’d be forced to live in a tyranny for a while…Pontificating Utopia from afar is so easy. They simply know nothing from experience, outside of idealistic indoctrinated blather. In a way, how lucky they are. Ignorance is indeed blissful.

Most sad and deceiving, our ‘friends’ at the NYT:

When Mr. Hussein came to power three years before the Dujail killings, he ruled over an oil-rich country that was an economic and technical powerhouse in the Middle East with rising cultural and political influence. When he hurtled through the trap door of the gallows Saturday morning, the nation he left behind was a smashed and traumatized remnant, desperately trying to restore its own identity and its place in the world.

They make it sound like the U.S. caused the decline of Iraq – when in reality:

Saddam built Iraq into a one of the Arab world’s most modern societies, but then plunged the country into an eight-year war with neighboring Iran that killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and wrecked Iraq’s economy.

When the U.S. invaded in 2003, Iraqis had been transformed from among the region’s most prosperous people to some of its most impoverished.

Both are concluding statements, in both articles.

Also, a huge destortion – one of Saddam’s daughters wants to keep his body in Yemen, until Iraq gets ‘liberated’. What was it under her dad’s reign? Ah, the good life – it’s over!

And finally, it’s time now to remove Saddam’s name from the bricks in the historical site of Babylon, where the bastard had it forced to be inscribed in his time. What mutilation! My neighbor went there last year and we have pictures to prove this.

Go hang out near the trash-bin of an abortion clinic if you want to see the fruits of your vision of democracy.

SailorDave on December 30, 2006 at 9:06 AM

And I sicken you?

Coincidentally, we rented “V for Vendetta”…

I’m real sorry to hear that.

The man deserved to hang, a million times over, ’cause that’s the estimate of inocent people that died because of him.

Had he been taken out in 1991 by Bush 41, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would be alive to day, and my son would not have had go to Iraq in 2004. Even more importantly, ~3000 American troops would still be alive.

He needed killing. He got what he needed. The world will be a better place for it. End of story.

On Guy Fawkes Day:

Coincidentally, we rented “V for Vendetta” on Guy Fawkes Day, 11/5. Not being a Brit (and not having seen the movie in the theaters), the date meant nothing to me. In fact, I never knew until I watched the movie what day Guy Fawkes day was celebrated on. A rather intereting coincidence, I thought.

As a Christian man there’ll come a time
When I’m obliged to forgive the swine
And leave such judgment in God’s good hands,
To let Him send evil to the pitiless flame;
But I’m too young and foolish still,
To want within me any pity bestirred,
So: Damnation to the Devil’s own,
And salvation to those who sent him home!

25 minutes to go…