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Execution justified

The hurried execution might have been the result of a hasty trial and biased judgment. But the fact remains that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for genocide and two wars that claimed the lives of millions.

G. Prabhakara Sastry,
Visakhapatnam

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None of Saddam's victims had the luxury of a legal process, even a flawed one. He and his sons terrorised an entire nation and brutalised those suspected of being dissidents.

B. Rajagopalan,
Belle Mead, New Jersey

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Saddam was a tyrant who ruled Iraq ruthlessly presiding over Cabinet meetings with his rifle placed on the table and his military thugs standing behind him, and killing millions of his own people.

T.S. Murthi,
Folsom, California

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Saddam Hussein became a victim of his own cruel actions. The media are doing a disservice to the world by glorifying him.

S. Ramachandrasekaran,
Chennai

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Saddam Hussein committed two blunders. He antagonised the West, which no dictator can do and survive for long in the present world order. Had he remained in the good books of the U.S., he would have flourished until the very end. He could have continued to commit any number of atrocities with absolute impunity. His second blunder was to allow himself to be captured alive by his enemies.

V. Nagarajan,
Chennai

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Saddam was the most trusted CIA agent of the 20th century, who made the American presence in the Gulf easier. He was the main beneficiary of American arms and Arab money during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. He committed atrocities against his own countrymen with impunity. He did not even spare the lives of his sons-in-law. In tune with its policy of use and throw, America ditched Iraq and Hussein.

Syed Hasan Kazim,
New Delhi

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