"WE" didn't hang Saddam..or did you miss the trial?
The pretenses were not false.
It's not about being more safe...it's about knowing there will be a reckoning for your actions, that you can't kill with impunity. History will judge? Sounds like you already did.
River. Cry me one.
You have a right to your opinion, but YES!~ 'We' did need to hang him.
To hang him like the Nazis who hanged for slaughtering their countrymen and others.
He was tried in Iraqi court, not ours.
If he had been allowed to die a natural death, it would have been seen as "the will of Allah to relieve him of the burden of captivity by the infidel", and definitely not the same thing as hanging him like the murderous criminal he was.
A "heart attack" or other 'health event' would have invited the same accusations Putin is hearing in regards to dead journalists and others.
Hanging is best.
The Hague has no jusidiction in the case which led to Saddam's conviction because it was against his own people, in his own country. Saddam was also on trial for the deaths of tens of thousands of other Iraqis, which would also have resulted in execution. If you want international justice for his attack on an Israeli, then you can have him posthumously charged at the Hague after the current trial is over and if no further Iraqi charges are pending.
I must say, you sound odly as though you want us to believe that because his trial wasn't conducted the way you want, on the charges you prefer, that justice was somehow not done. Ask the families of his victims if they feel justice was served.
Saddam paid $25 grand to the families of successful Pali homocide bombs, and was therefore directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israels on Israeli, not Iraqi, soil. The "international community" did not and never will acknowlege Saddam's role in exporting terrorism. If you're honest about your screen name, you shoud be glad the bloodthirsty b@stard son of a monkey and a pig is no longer stealing our oxygen.
As for vengence as opposed to justice, the difference is nothing but a semantic game.
As an American, your opionion of what the court system of Iraq, a sovereign country, does is not worth diddly squat. None of our opinions are. It's the Iraqis opinions that count: he was their tyrant and he's now hanging out in Hell and swinging with many other tyrants forced to face the justice of their own people.
There was no shooter on the grassy knoll this time. He will not be missed. The world is a marginally better place without him. I'm going to relax with my family and feel the good feeling that comes when you KNOW that, after 25 years of hoping that this day would come, it finally has.
Oh, and formatting is your friend. Have a nice day.
....the maniac brutally killed a bunch of people and now he's dead.
Some people will whine about anything.
How you have lasted here this long is amazing - but hopefully not much longer with your posting of far-left lies and propaganda. The U.S. did not invade Iraq on false pretenses, and "we" did not summarily execute him - nor did "we" execute him at all. Learn to tell the truth.