Saddam Hussein is dead......whoopie!!
History leading up to this event could have, and should have unfolded much, much better.
But I'll save that for another thread.
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Saddam Hussein is dead......whoopie!!
History leading up to this event could have, and should have unfolded much, much better.
But I'll save that for another thread.
Falix, you're a man after my heart. :biglove You said exactly what I was thinking after I saw the video, and probably exactly what plenty of other people were thinking, but didn't really want to say.Quote:
Originally posted by Falix
[url]Either that, or I'm left bitter that the camera didn't pan down fast enough for me to see his neck snap. Can't decide yet.
Here's to telling it like it like it is.
I'm glad to say that I am no where near your 'plenty of other people'.Quote:
Originally posted by anthson
Falix, you're a man after my heart. :biglove You said exactly what I was thinking after I saw the video, and probably exactly what plenty of other people were thinking, but didn't really want to say.
Here's to telling it like it like it is.
There is something inherently broken within an individual who gains personal satisfaction from watching someone die. Be glad that he's gone, don't get a charge out of watching his neck break.
Just saying.
A lifetime of humiliation in an 8 x 8 would have made a stronger point to me. Hasn't the whole exercise been about our superiority?
It's a vanity thing.
I understand what you are saying, but I think putting it this way is a little glib.Quote:
Originally posted by Elvion
In the end I just felt like, if I cheered for his execution - I am no better than him.
Simply "cheering" for his death does not even begin to approach the wholesale murder, torture, and rape of millions.
Cheering for someone's death is possibly low class, and maybe even immoral, but it is wrong to draw an equivalency between that lapse and the acts of Saddam Hussein.
You know, that sounds really nice and all, and I'm inclined to agree with it, but ... look, basically, I need to watch things die (from a good safe distance, preferably). Know what I mean? It's just the way it is. If you've overcome that, I guess kudos to you. I'm just being honest about it. So it is, so it's always been.Quote:
Originally posted by Darion
There is something inherently broken within an individual who gains personal satisfaction from watching someone die. Be glad that he's gone, don't get a charge out of watching his neck break.
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