He died at 6AM Iraq time, 10PM our time, I watched the news cast for 30minutes, reporter said it at 6:10 there that he was hunged 10minutes ago. So at 6:00.

I don't really have any true say on how I feel about it. Though that they were going to do it at customed. That's it.

I think the argument over Saddam in comparison to others is pretty much discussed well above, so I'll just give my peice on him alone.

Saddam wasn't executed "just because" he was the former leader. He was tried specifically for the crime of the gas attacks against the Kurds he ordered in Iraq and convicted. When a former leader goes to trial, it's not becuase they were the leader but because they did something and that one act is deemed a crime against humanity, not just the fact that they were in charge. After WWII, the Nazi leaders went to trial for their actions, not their loyalties. The same happened with Saddam.

I think comparing him to Casto or Bush is kind of overlooking this. He committed a crime, went to trial, and then was sentanced to death for his crime. The same thing would have happened if he had killed people and he wasn't in power.

I don't know any of you, but after reading the post and all of the comments I feel the need to add my own input. First of all, my father was born and raised in Baghdad along with 3 brothers and 7 sisters, all of whom are married and have a life there. They led a semi-normal life but weren't happy with their governmet to say the least. It just seems to me that none of you really know what went on there and you still don't know what's going on there except what our own bias media tells you. Saddam really was no different than Hitler or even Bush for that matter. He killed his grandson, just a child mind you, so he would not grow up and take revenge on his father. All three men may not have killed with their own hands but they may as well have. It was on their order that millions of thousands have been killed. If that does not deserve death then I really don't know what does.

And not that I'm defending Saddam's death, he really did deserve to die, but the entire trial was run by the U.S. whether any of you believe it or not and that is entirely up to you.

Unfortunately I have no answers. I just know that as Americans, we are right (at least that's what we're taught).

I saw someone's post on Theologians that said it wasn't right, but that they doubted he was going to Heaven. Not that person's Heaven, or mine, or probably most people, but what about his religion? He may very well be going to his Heaven, which I think is the most important thing in any person's life. Not to live by a societal or cultural law, but live for what will make you happy and get you where you want to go in the afterlife.

Wow...talk about a random tangent, haha.

There are mass graves of people in Iraq - men, women, children as a result of the war.  There is a HUGE amount of Iraq civilians that died -  I read an article that says a conservative death toll for the civilians is 100,000 but there are estimations that indicate that it exceeds 200,000!!! 

Imagine that happening in US, and this country is MUCH larger then Iraq, Iraq is twice the size of Idaho so imagine 100,000 citizens dying in that size of land!!!
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Military_Death_Toll_In_Iraq_Hits_2500.html

But really the deaths started way before this war, the embargo that prevented a large portion of drugs and medical equipment and other necessities to reach Iraq (sanctions against Iraq), according to a United Nations report from 1998, this embargo was the direct cause of more than 250 000 civilian lives in Iraq but in reality it is much more - Wikpedia says more then 1.5 million deaths are a result of this embargo.... and not as much in the news but still horrible resuld- blindness b/c of the sandstorms and other illnesses - they didn't have access to eye care meds, chlorine many many items of necessity which resulted in horrible diseases ... 

that started with the first Bush, but even after other powerful countries wanted it to end, one of the 5 permanent members of the security council (US of A) who has Bush representing it for almost 6 years now, has repeatedly and abusively used and threatened to use his voting power and veto power to continue the embargo and only ended it once Saddam was captured.
North Korea has nukes but we didn't attack them when the threats were being made to develop them, so the "excuse" for invading Iraq changed to terrorism even though the alleged terrorists that attacked the towers were not even from Iraq, the Al-Qaeda is not from Iraq either. 
US stood by while millions died in Rwanda (was the massacre of an estimated 800,000 to 1,071,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, and East Timor (well over 200,000 East Timorese have died, but America supports the invaders- Indonesia, who did the murdering. http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/ETimorRS

And of course, let's not forget the clear-cutting and expropriation of indigenous tribes in South America so that we can save a whole dollar on a ton of wood for our beautiful wood floors, furniture, houses etc, and so McD's can save 7 cents a pound on beef, horse and soy and whatever else is in what some people call food..

Although this is long enough, there are numerous reports of innocent civilians being held in prisons ran by US Soldiers, being starved, cold, unclothed and tortured.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

page 4 of this link describes some of the deaths from the CIA prisons. 

One of the things that the media has done for those that are in power is provided a way for them to make an excuse about their actions so that it seems that what they are doing is "right".  The media says the war in Iraq is to combat terrorism, but that is impossible, there are sooooo many different groups of potential terrorists, not just in Iraq it would be absolutely impossible to prevent terrorism. 

He may not have been the one who pulled the trigger to kill all those people, but he is the one who orchestrated all of the attacks and mass murders. He is the one who ordered the bombs to be dropped on his own country-people. That would be being an accomplice to murder....and it is just as bad as doing it yourself. Allow me to say, Bush did it in time of war....Saddam did it in his own time for his own benefit. Paul encountered the Lord on the road to Damascus...was forgiven and changed his ways. He became the greatest instrument that God used in the new testament and the church. Point being, Bush was time of war, Paul changed and was used greatly by God.....neither Saddam or Castro did things in time of war, nor were either of them repentent for what they did.

Allow me to say, I am not trying to compare Bush with Paul, I am trying to justify his actions.