So when are we hanging Bush and Blair

[Benji]

I hope you're not suggesting I said hang Blair or Bush. All I said was that they should be answerable.

From a Christian point of view there is no defence for hanging anyone but from the perspective of the Iraqi government it seems to me that the tide needs to turn away from violence as being the response to every problem if the country is ever again to be a place worth living in.

It is only with your response to people like Saddam Hussain that you can establish a very public standard for the future.

Mercy can be an extremely powerful weapon...especially against permanently vengeful opposition.

Strength to my mind is in the word not the weapons. Education is the key and the right PR. Having something to collectively believe in and standing by it can help. Especially if it's a defensible something that you stand for.

When did an eye for an eye solve anything?. All it does is leave two people disabled instead of one! I prefer the notion "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord".

Vengeance in people is cancerous. It can eat into an entire life - even great chunks of a people's history. Just ask the Irish. And to what end that doesn't eventually involve dialogue?

PS: I'm not at all sure about all Muslims having no fear of death. Nor am I qualified to give an opinion. But I do know of many Christian people who believe in life ever yet very few I meet want to test the theory before their time.

Indeed.

No i wasn't i only quoted your bit with regards to actually hanging him, the bit about bush and blair is a generalised opinion of many people in Britain at the minute.

In an ideal world of course strength of mind and education 'should' prevail, and who's to say one day it shouldn't. I guess a major issue separating opinions such as mine and yours will have a little if not a lot to do with me not being a religious person.

It is hard to say it should be one rule for one, another for others, but unfortunately, the extremeity of Saddam could in my opinion only result in just result. I agree in principle that with Iraq in general, education and law and order (all of which being down to iraqis themselves) should be the premise of the future, but my personal opinion is that Saddam as an individual, and not as a representative of Iraq as he would so wish to be, deserved the worst public shaming known to man. (Again, maybe the non-religious side of me)

I suppose i over generalised with my earlier post, but if i was wrong in principle, surely the violence and terrorism we witness today would not occur nor would it slowly be arriving in our country.