# Saddam to be hung by this Sunday!!

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2006-12-29
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2006/12/29/saddam-to-be-hung-by-this-sunday/
- Categories: essay

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<blockquote>Cardinal Renato Martino, Pope Benedict XVI’s top prelate for justice issues and a former Vatican envoy to the U.N., condemned the death sentence in a newspaper interview published Thursday, saying capital punishment goes against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.<br />
<div align="right">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16384738/<br />
</div></blockquote>Hmmm, interesting. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>, which considered itself the authority over _anything_ in the past has become human after all? Interesting, for I remember the dreadful acts it committed in the form of punishing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy">heresy</a> during the Papal regimes :-)! Wow, things are indeed changing eh :-)! But kudos to the church for turning a little bit more "human". However, with all due respect, I wonder if this is nothing but damage control over what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a> said in the recent past that caused <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI_Islam_controversy">quite some controversy</a>.<br />
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Coming to the topic of <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16384738/">capital punishment</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>, I am unsure about my stance on the same. I certainly believe in the concept of <em>An Eye for an Eye</em>, however, I also believe that if we always taking each other's eyes, that will leave the whole world blind. Furthermore, giving capital punishment to Saddam, would only give him the status of a martyr, amongst his disciples [for the wont of a better term]. This would also cause unnecessary uprisings in the critical and fragile political and social situation in Iraq. I am also scared for the troops who went there under the blind belief that <em>they will be greeted as liberators</em>!<br />
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Aside, India has urged for clemency for Saddam Hussein. Now why the hell is India getting involved in this? It's not as if we have a big say over the whole situation anyway. Furthermore, what's up with the <em>Ahimsa</em> bull all of a sudden. Yes we had disapproved <em>Operation Iraqi Freedom</em>, but that does not really mean that we have to urge the clemency of a proved tyrant. I still do not understand as to why India has to go and meddle in such affairs!! *sigh* when are they going to learn?