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Originally Posted by Gareth
I think he did maintain a sense of courage right until the trapdoor was opened.
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I have a different take on courage though mate. To me, courage is running into a burning house to save the life of someone, especially if you aren't related. Not being executed for massacring thousands of lives, along with other assorted war crimes.
Courage is doing something dangerous or hard when there is an option of an easier route. Saddam was going to be executed regardless.
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Maybe it has something to do with me being against capital punishment, but even if this is what the Iraqis chose as Saddam's fate, I think there are ways of doing it that can demonstrate that society is 'better' than the person they are supposed to be punishing.
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It goes back (a little) to what Escapee was saying. Shortly after the country fell, the police service was filled with newly-trained Shiite recruits (long before insurgents infiltrated the police force). Ones that should remember, and be able to learn from Saddam & his sons' tyranny. They promptly started torturing anyone they rounded up. The replacements were as bad as the people they were replacing.