SHOULD SADDAM HUSSEIN BE EXECUTED? ( FREEP ALERT!!! )

KQED Public Service ^ | 16 January 2004 | KQED (PBS) San Francisco

[Robert Drobot]

Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

Poll being conducted by San Francisco PBS TV station KQED.

Know that if you answer YES, you will be asked:

Are you sure?....and asked to vote it up or down again. If you vote YES, you will be asked:

What if you knew that the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and many of the world's spiritual and political leaders are opposed to the death penalty?.....and asked to vote it up or down again. If you vote YES, you will be asked:

What if you knew that most international human rights organizations oppose the death penalty and some Iraqis do not want Saddam Hussein to be executed?......and asked to vote it up or down again. If you vote YES, you will be asked:

What if you knew that some argue killing Saddam would create a martyr and could inspire further terrorism?......and asked to vote it up or down again. If you vote YES, you will be asked:

What if you knew that some argue only a trial by the International Criminal Court, which does not allow the death penalty, would fairly review all the evidence, including Saddam's past relationship with the United States and other countries??

THE VOTE TALLY IS NOW OVERWHELMINGLY AGAINST INSANE'S EXECUTION.

What say you???

[Robert Drobot]

The vote is being tracked.

[SouthernFreebird]

Git a rope...

[ETERNAL WARMING]

They really work at getting you to say NO!@ Don't give them the satisfaction!



Should Saddam Hussein be executed?

Yes 47 27%
No 127 73%


BTTT BTTT BTTT

[sgtbono2002]

Execute him and dont take too long to do it.

[The Great RJ]

The Iraqi people should decide. My bet is that they would quickly decide he should hang.

[jim35]

Darn it, I'm freeping here at work, and the site is filtered out as entertainment! Arrgghhh!

[Az Joe]

The results are, at this point, absolutely pathetic!

[Brett66]

What kind of screwed up poll is this? They gave me 4-5 reasons why he shouldn't and I had to vote yes after each reason. Did they do this for the no's?

[reagan_fanatic]

Boy, they really try to get you to see their point of view, now don't they???


BTTT

[aruanan]

No. He should be put in the same cell with Manuel Noriega.

[Howie66]

Since when do the junkies, faggots, socialists, and general human(?) debris in San Francisco have anything at all to say about the internal affairs in Iraq? Methinks they are being a bit presumptous.

[Rome2000]

Master Sergeant John C. Woods, of San Antonio, Texas, readies the noose for the hanging of convicted Nazi criminals. Woods, the official executioner for the US Army, said, "I hanged those 10 Nazis and I am proud of it!"

[al_again]

BIG DEAL!!! Did you read the end - it gives the arguement on both sides depending on how you vote. Besides, this is PBS - who is going to see this but PBS type people (all 200 of em)?

[blam]

FReeped.

[Old Sarge]

Congrats. Anyone voting just gave another Web hit to NPR - the people behind this "poll".

[Redcloak]

I doubt that any Iraqi's get KQED on cable, so it's a bit irrelevant what Babylon-by-the-bay thinks ought to happen in Babylon.

[Redcloak]

Should Saddam Hussein be executed?
Yes	80	39%
No	127	61%

It's getting there...

[MetalMan]

Yes, it does it for the "no" answers too. I voted yes, but stopped reading the explainations as soon as I saw the bit about the U.N. saying the death penalty is wrong.

[Tax Government]

KQED forgot to ask if I gave a rat's ass about their editorializing and opinion-moulding b.s. Pity.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Given that is has been reported that Saddam has cancer and that it is untreatable, our Doctors found this at the time of his capture, what difference will it make??

If he does have cancer and may well be dead within the space of 18 months, he may never have a trial, and if he does may not be in any condition to participate in it.

This bodes for a very anticlimactic ending of the whole affair.