Adult Date Link's Quote of the day (Iron Maiden) - for you Saddam!
 

Im waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesnt have much time
Cos at 5 oclock they take me to the gallows pole
The sands of time for me are running low

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be theres some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream

Somebody please tell me that Im dreaming
Its not so easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I crying
After all I am not afraid of dying
Dont believe that there is never an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard
Someone calls from a cell God be with you
If theres a God then why has he let me die?

As I walk all my life drifts before me
And though the end is near Im not sorry
Catch my soul cos its willing to fly away

Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please dont worry now that I have gone
Ive gone beyond to see the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand
Maybe then youll begin to understand
Life down there is just a strange illusion.

But... why?

You disagree with capital punishment or with the hanging of Saddam?

With both of them! Killing a man because he killed and it's wrong to kill? I've tried twisting it so many times but whichever way I look at it, there's just no logic in it.

Saddam perhaps should have been punished, in some way, surely. But in that case so should many other world leaders, Bush, Putin, Blair, for some popular examples.

Capital punishment is such a barbaric way of dealing with people. It solves no problems whatsoever.

Well, if you disagree with capital punishment there isn't much to discuss. A belief in capital punishment or not is just a statement about how you wish the world to be. It can't be decided by reason. Only by "how I want the world to be" or maybe by "popular opinion".

There is no "fair" in world politics. Saddam was on the wrong the side of history.

Iraqi blog ...

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/200...g-justice.html

Celebrating Justice...
Saddam drew his path to hell long time ago?he chose this fate the day he chose cruelty and oppression as a way to deal with his people. He built his reign with blood and terror and vowed to make death the fate of anyone who dared say no to him.

Saddam lost his humanity the day he committed his first crime, so the one I saw walking to the rope this morning was no man to me.

It was him who rejected humanity to become the monster that the weak feared and prayed to see him dead for years to be safe from his crimes.

Outside Iraq people will divide over his hanging, just like they divided over his life and rule but here in Iraq most of us feel that today justice has been served. Those who mourn him are a few and are still living in the past that has no future in Iraq.

To those who didn?t like justice I say that his death means life to many.
Executing the dictator renews the hopes of not only Iraqis but also of other oppressed peoples in the world in having a better future where they enjoy freedom. It's time for other tyrants to learn from this lesson and realize that a similar fate is on the way if they refuse to change.
Yes, it was the people though their elected government who put Saddam on trial and who says otherwise should go back and learn about how Saddam humiliated, murdered and tortured Iraqis and plundered their fortunes in his stupid adventures.

He deserved to die?our people are still suffering from his crimes till this moment, maybe not in person anymore but through the murderous terrorist machine he built and expanded over years; his orphans are still murdering our people in cold blood trying to deny us the right to build a model of life away from the culture of death the dictator created.

Executing Saddam is an execution to a dark era in Iraq's history and it's a message to all those who followed his ways that there is no turning back; yes, the people will never kneel to a tyrant again and will never give up.
The future is in the hands of the people and they will choose their way no matter how big the sacrifice is.
We have suffered too much for too long and we deserve a better life and that we will keep pursuing.

On this day as we celebrate justice we shall not forget to pray for blessings for the souls of the dictator's victims and we shall not forget to thank our brothers in America and the rest of the coalition nations who helped us and are still helping us in our struggle to build the new free and democratic Iraq.

another fitting Iron Maiden lyric for the world situation:

"We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies"

I knew it'd be "hallowed by thy name."

Here is the song... and Jamie Thomas skating.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=62vRCZVXPQA

Yeah. I heard the word "gallows" this morning and it instantly came to mind.

It is barbaric yet again in USA 10000 people is killed every year.

Without the death penalty Saddam would have been shot in the face in that spiderhole.