The ( so far) unasked question: We invade Iraq, and we capture Saddam. What do we do with him?

one man's opinion

[ken5050]

I'd like to toss this out for comments, as I haven't seen the topic broached anywhere as yet. From many reports it sound like we're getting ready to move on Iraq fairly soon. Probably with the Brits, and perhaps with a few other nations supporting our efforts. It appears that we're going to try and topple the regime..kill off the head, so to speak. It's to be hoped that either a bomb lands on Saddam's head, or the Iraqi opposition strings him up by the heels, as the Italians did with Mussolini. OBL's most probably dead, so we don't have to deal with the spectacle of a trial, but what if Saddam and a few others are captured, or even perhaps, surrender, to say, the French ambassador?

[ken5050]

Aside from the media circus, and the ability of a heavily publicized trial to inflame the passions of the radical Arab world, remember that most of our would be allies are signatories to the International Court in the Hague, and would no doubt demand f for Saddam to be tried there as a war criminal...which would put the US in a somewhat awkward position, to say the least.

It's to be hoped that the Iraqi leader bites the dust, but I suspect that he's secretly a coward at heart, and doesn't have a death wish, the desire to be a martyr. He'd probably rather go to Disneyworld.

So, has anybody seen this issue addressed before, and what say you?

[ken5050]

FYI

[PhilDragoo]

Put Saddam Hussein's head in a jar on Bush's Oval Office desk.

For a balanced foreign policy, put Yassir Arafat's head in a jar on an opposite corner of Bush's desk.

Nice, nice, very nice.

We decapitate a terrorist; we do it twice.

[Dialup Llama]

Put him where Osama is.

[APBaer]

"we capture Saddam. What do we do with him?"

First we court martial the guy who captured him alive.
"Didn't you see he was going for a gun, the one I just dropped on the floor"?

[sweetliberty]

"What do we do with him?"

This is a trick question, right?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Capture Sadaam? Why the hell would anyone be stupid enough to do that?

Solve a whole range of problems just by blowing him up.

[Brett66]

I vote for shooting him while trying to escape.

[mlocher]

tribunals. we will never know what happened...

on the other hand, do you think that he will let us take him alive?

[South Dakota]

Osama where are you? I know you are hiding somewhere. BWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Centurion2000]

"Didn't you see he was going for a gun, the one I just dropped on the floor"?

Nice :)

[ken5050]

I think he's a coward.....I can more easily see him turnign himself into the French or German,or heck, the Saudi embassy in Bagdad.....

[AFreeBird]

He should never be taken alive. However, in that unlikely event, we'll have to bury him because he broke his neck when he accidently fell down those 20 flights of stairs.

[troublesome creek]

bang. bang.

[kissoldspot]

Public dissection?
Skin him with a potato peeler?
Tie him to a tree in the Louisana swamp?
Gosh, I am gonna quit now or I'll never get to bed!

[Former Young Democrat]

two words...new boots.

honestly, though, I think this would be a case best handled by a well rehearsed and orchestrated "local populace rises up, Benito's former leader"...everybody concentrate on proper blocking and lighting for the cameras, string him up, smile for the tv, then break for lunch

but i am a hopeless romantic.........

[davisdoug]

we sew his penis to his forhead and appoint him the the UN Security & Reparations Council. If he does well we will allow him to run Zimbabwe {*sp?)

[mlocher]

I can more easily see him turnign himself into the French

the french won't know what to do either. their initial reaction would be to poach him, then sear him in garlic and ladel liberally with a burgundy wine sauce...

[kms61]

IMHO somebody in his own entourage will off him long before we're faced with that dilemma.

[eastforker]

Sure,the same we would do with OBL,never to be heard from again.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Or accidentally broke his neck from hanging on a rope. Shame! A pure accident! Tsk tsk

[MJY1288]

I predict Saddam and his entire family will be assasinated by their own people. He has lived by the sword and he will die by the sword.

My only hope is that the assasinations are carried out by those who have been carefully groomed by our CIA. Just like the Afghan President, Karzi (Sp)? was.

[Guillermo]

The KFC down the street is hiring.

[SEGUET]

Let's eat him, with fava beans and a good chianti!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Capture him? Who said anything about capturing him? I vote the president issues a shoot on sight order.

[mhking]

What do we do with him?

The logical first thought in my mind (as I'm sure most others) was "kill 'im."

But the more rational portion of my mind says try him for genocide, torture him, them kill 'im.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Turn Sadam over to his loyal and long suffering subjects. It's an internal affair, and none of the World Courts business. I predict a disposal of this tyrant in ways that fit his crimes.

[Thinkin' Gal]

but what if Saddam and a few others are captured, or even perhaps, surrender, to say, the French ambassador?

This is backwards. Isn't the concern that the French ambassador would surrender to Saddam?

[dighton]

A decent burial in a lead casket in the Mariana Trench.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Try him very publicly for war crimes--namely using poison gas on the Kurds. Saw a documentary about this incident--people who survived have permanent nerve damage and problems with birth defects. It would be a terrific spectacle. Follow it up with putting Arafat on trial for funding suicide bombers--let some of the survivors of Palestinian terror bear witness to Arab/Muslim war crimes. Saw a young teenaged Israeli girl who came to Israel to be free from Russian anti-Semitism--her face was disfigured by flying schrapnel--a testimony to the evil of terrorism.

[mathurine]

if he hollers let him go. I don't see that we have any obligation to do any more than say "you aint comin' back," as we hand him over to the group or person who wants him or will take him. Of course if the plane, train, or horse he rides out on mysteriously disappears enroute to his safe haven, this would be unfortunate even though obviously the Kurds or the Shi'ites, or a vengeance seeking relative of any of the many officers and others he has killed over the years would probably be culpable, or close enough for government work.

[kissoldspot]

OK....Here is the obligatory french comment.

"They would surrender when they saw him coming"

Which brings to mind my solution to the Palistinian problem. We give them France. France would snivel but not resist, they would be too far from Israel to cause problems and they are both hairy, stinky rude people. They should get along just fine!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Johnny Cochran will get a change of venue to Marin county and saddam will get "time served".

[ElkGroveDan]

Remove all life support until he slowly suffocates? Like he did in 1990 to the Kuwaiti babies in their incubators when they stole the hospital equipment to ship back to Iraq? Those muslims are all into that eye for an eye thing aren't they?

[Rollee]

I like your idea, but poor President Bush. Imagine having to look at those two sickening visages every morning.

[JPJones]

Make him head janitor at the white house.

[mlibertarianj]

Send him to the Kurds! They can most certainly solve the problem, and it can make up for the fact we screwed them in '91, which I thought, was messed up (and one of the reasons I became disillusioned with the George Bush Sr.)

[NetValue]

Smallpox.

[mlocher]

LOL!!! but remember, the french can at times make food that others are actually willing to eat.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Help him get in touch with his feelings so he has a better understanding of the root of his aggression.

That, or put him in a room with Bill, Al, Hillary, and a few others, and let them fight it out.

[Michael Barnes]

What to do if Saddam is "caught"? Hehehe...I would hope to years down the line hear military declassified recordings such as:

Oscar Charlie 3, Oscar Charlie 3, this is sierra tango 6 over.

Oscar Charlie 3, go ahead sierra tango 6.

Roger, Mission complete, en route to extraction point one seat heavier over.

Pause from Oscar Charlie 3

Sierra tango 6, this is Oscar Charlie 6, exterminate heavy seat, return to extraction point, I repeat, exterminate heavy seat and return to extraction point. over, out.

Hey...one can dream!

[Lunatic Fringe]

I say...

Get a rope...

[piasa]

Intercept his French flight out of town, load him up and drop him from 60,000 feet over North Korea's capital with a note that says "This can be you."

More likely he'll simply disappear. That, a US tribunal, a Kuwaiti trial, or having him turned over to his own people to try, would be preferable (for our sake and every sovereign country's sake) to seeing a 'world court' style case.

[section9]

Saddam Hussein, meet Luca Brasi!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Arkinsaw]

Oh come on guys. I want to see him shuffling around in that orange jumpsuit for a while before he accidentally falls and breaks his neck. You guys are no fun.

[B Knotts]

"He died. He have heart attack and fell out of window onto exploding bomb, and was run over in shooting accident. Nasty business."

[jwfiv]

Kill him. Skin him. Make a pencil box out of his shinbone.

[exDemMom]

I vote for drawing and quartering. Sometimes the traditional methods are the best.

[exDemMom]

LOL!!! but remember, the french can at times make food that others are actually willing to eat.

Mmmm, fresh snails in a butter/herb sauce, served hot in their shells with a loaf of fresh bread on the side. Drool, drool. (Yes, I really do eat them.)

[Skibane]

Simple solution: As soon as the invasion kicks off, we put out the word that there's a reward for him, dead or alive — $10,000,000 dead, or $10 alive. Capitalism is a wonderful thing...