[font="times new roman"] On April 28, 1937 a son was born to a lonely woman whose husband left her six months prior. His mother could not raise him so he was sent to live with his uncle. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] This may sound like the opening to a story of a man who would do great things, even through hardship; he would prevail to be a man to be remembered. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Well this story would be somewhat true. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Saddam Hussein was a man who went through hardship and he was definitely a man who would be remembered; but he did not get through his hardships in order to do great things. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Saddam, in Arabic, means “one who confronts”. He certainly lived up to his name. He was a man not afraid of confrontation. He was a man whom many shuddered at his name. He was a man whom caused many deaths, indirectly and directly.[/font]
[font="times new roman"] But does this give anyone the right to kill him? [/font]
[font="times new roman"] What or who gives anyone the right to kill anyone? [/font]
[font="times new roman"] No one. No one has the authority to take away a life; only God has control over that. Yes some may kill, but doesn’t killing them make us just as wrong. Isn’t it hypocritical to kill someone for killing? [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Some may say that it is serving justice. But what does the killing of someone change? It won’t bring any of the dead back. It may just provoke more violence. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] “Every positive value has its price in negative terms…The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima,” said the artist Pablo Picasso[/font]
[font="times new roman"] Many may think that that the killing of evil is good, but if it provokes more evil through the death, is the death worth it?[/font]
[font="times new roman"] What peace does it bring? Does it bring anything?[/font]
[font="times new roman"] There will always be evil in the world. Ever since the moment Eve chose to eat the apple there was evil in the world. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] “Evil is…a mortal entity and not a created on, an eternal entity and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world,” said the French writer and libertine Marquis De Sade. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] If we are trying to get rid of evil one person at a time, we will never reach where we want to be. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] “The violence has gotten to a point where it has taken on a life of its own, irrespective of whether Saddam is dead or alive, on the run or in captivity,” said reporter Con Coughlin. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Everyone believes that with Saddam gone everything will just fall into place and Iraq will be free from terrorism. That’s not true. As Coughlin says, terrorism has risen above and beyond Hussein, it spreads and will never be able to be conquered. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] So by killing him are we sinking to his level and for what benefit? What will be changed by his death? [/font]
[font="times new roman"] Killing one man will not change anything. His ideas will live on. His evil will live on. And posting his death on the internet is just playing right into their trap. Through watching his death, and enjoying it sadly, it’s making us inhumane and immune to violence. So not only does killing him not affect the violence the violence level in Iraq, but it is affecting us as humans—as Americans—changing our views, poisoning the way we think. [/font]
[font="times new roman"] However it affects us, in the words of Mac Beth, “What’s done is done.”[/font]
[font="times new roman"] “Thank God a bloody chapter was ended,” National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said on the US-funded Al Hurra television before the burial was announced. “This is a new Iraq.”[/font]
[font="times new roman"] For everyone’s sake I do hope so. [/font]