Those of us on this side of the Atlantic, cut from different cloth, have to put up with these non elected officials making fools of themselves in our name. There may well be a good technical argument against this sentence, but the EU is not interested in that, they just want to be holier than though.

So what would the EU do with Saddam-a murderer,thug and dictator ?

My Mom had the best reaction. She said what a bunch of p*tzs

If there's a march, I'll join it. We still have the odd shreds of moral fibre clinging to us on this side of the Atlantic, you know.

FWIW, I'd dump the bastard in Guantanamo to rot. Orange is SO his colour, don't you think? Hell, you could charge tourists to look at The Great Dictator. But hang him: nope.

I don't see why it does display moral fibre to keep a genocidal murderer alive. If ever there were the case for the death penalty, this is it.

To me it just reads as cultural emasculation.

I could understand better, however, were the same voices, outraged by Saddam's death sentence, not in the main also in favor of euthanasia and abortion. In that case there would be the logic of moral consistency to recommend them.

In any case, he shouldn't go to Guantanamo because he is Iraqi and a prisoner of the nation of Iraq.

If they sent him to Abu Ghraib, given the reports of Shi'ite torture currently ongoing, at least there would be karma behind it; thus the symbolism would be "symbolic". Though I'm not arguing in favor of that by any means. I'm not in any manner in favor of the corrupt Shi'ite police forces that currently exist killing and torturing their foes. I think they are doing a tremendous disservice to their nation.

I agree with the death penalty for him.