Quote Originally Posted by Patriarch of Constantinople
Well, if you were chosen to hang the man who was a tyrant of your country and killed your friends/family, wouldn't you be happy to see him gone?
Would I be happy to see him gone? I guess so, it's a position I never want to be in, but yes, I would be glad to see him gone, in the sense that he can no longer harm my family/country. I'd define gone as the point at which he was captured by the US though, from there he couldn't harm anyone. From there I would expect due process and life imprisonment. Not a farce of a trial and a bloodthirsty act of revenge.

Would I be happy to see him gone in that he is dead? Ask yourself this. How has the world changed for his lack of life. Is it safer? Is it better? I'd argue no to both of these, his death changed nothing in practice. The one thing that it did change in practice, was that those that were owed a process for the crimes comitted against them have now been robbed of that chance.

So what did we gain from having a dead Saddam as opposed to a live Saddam. Tell me that and then I'll reconsider how I'd feel.