I'll quote my history teacher
"You can't judge history with today's morals"
Jesus today is looked upon as a great wonderful man. A man who was right and jusified in every bit of his actions. And a holy man, he is looked up too.
When he was killed he was leading a cult, a terroristic organization if you will (granted he didn't go about killing people) Rome killed him for treason. We are going hang Saddam for violations against human rights. If you look at this way,
whats worst murder or treason, I believe many people would argue that murder is worse, some would say treason. Therefore when Jesus died, the Christian religion exploded because of it.
Do we want to kill Saddam and have the terrioist explode because of it?
O BTW Jesus was tried, and killed by Rome law, Saddam will be tried and hung by Iraqi law. Whats the difference? Names thats the difference.
I feel killing Saddam (as much as i'd like to see it happen) would have more negative sideaffects then if we just tossed him in a 6x4 cell with 3 nasty square meals a day for the next 60 years.
In 15 years, we'll still think about the same that day as to day. But what about 150?