assalamu alaykum,
Some important points:
- More Iraqis are dying now then they were when he was in power.
- Saddam Was most powerful and was killing and gassing people when the US and UK were his allies. They were the ones supplying him with chemicals.
- He is not a Muslim, The late Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Abdul Azeez Ibn Baz (Rahimahullah), had fatwa against Saddam since the 1970s stating he was not a Muslim. His beliefs as a Baathist, make him a non-Muslim.
- There are are conflicting evidence with regards to his role in Halabja. Iran was using chemical weapons at same time in that area.
-Irony: The US is the only country to abstain from being part of the International Criminal Court. - Their soldiers can not be tried for any war crimes.
--- Although Saddam Hussein was a criminal and he deserves whatever he gets, I hope one day the larger War Criminals such as Bush, Blair and all their cronies also get tried for their War Crimes.
The Death sentence against Saddam Hussein serves in the best interests of his former Allies (the USUK coalition, pronounced
you suck!). It will be a large embarassment if Saddam Hussein keeps telling the world about the various interests that people such as Bush Sr, and Rumsfeld had with Iraq.