Posted on 12/26/2006 7:01:04 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Lol, thank you.
If you don't know that simple fact, you probably shouldn't be putting up an opinion.
FYI, he was tried in a Iraqi court, with an Iraqi Judge, and an Iraqi "jury". We just served as the jailers, due to security concerns.
He'll swing on a Iraqi gallows, with an Iraqi hangman, and with whatever style of noose they prefer in Iraq.
In the Old Days, he'd be beheaded, using a heavy broad ax or scimitar, so as to do the deed with a single stroke.
Of course Saddam and his sons preferred an industrial shredder or a chipper.
I'm not holding my breath, the execution still has to be approved by the leadership, and Talibani is opposed to it. Maybe some time in the spring....
The ratings would outdo the super bowl....
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Do you suppose that the current Iraqi "government" would last 48 hours if the US left tomorrow? This government is a fiction of US construction and is completely dependent on the US presences for it's day to day continuation.
The Iraqis know this and the rest of the world understands this. Only the US and the UK - for lack of apparent better options - find it convenient to pretend otherwise.
This does not mean that such a government always does what the US wishes, especially as this one is composed of literally warring factions each of which wants different and sometimes mutually contradictory things.
It does however mean that whatever it does is seen in Iraq and elsewhere as being done in our name.
Now, if homicidally corrupt behavior is just cause for hanging, Saddam deserves to hang - along with the sitting and former national leadership of few dozen members of the "international community" including some of the high ranking leaders of every group in the current Iraqi government.
And while I might feel that there is a sort of "justice" involved when the "New Boss" hangs the old one, I do not think that in a place like Iraq it's a good idea to encourage the operation of "Victors Justice" when it will be seem largely as a matter of internecine tribal and sectarian warfare.
And what appears to me to be happening in this case is what has been happening throughout or efforts since the start of the Occupation: some process is set in motion without bothering to think it through to it's ultimate consequences, as for example in this case when what happens to Saddam is not (as it should be) a questions of what is best for our ultimate strategic goals (a stable Iraq), but rather a tactical consideration of abiding by the "rules" of a completely artificial process which is understood by everyone involved to be in large part an act of selective justice by one group of murderous thugs against another.
I don't see any reason to televise it. Is there?
Better idea, throw him and a pig into a chipper together.
I'd like to see a public stoning of this tyrant, but I will settle for a nice hanging as well.
What and waste a perfectly good pig?
I say cover him in lard and hang him. Then use his body to start a fire and put the pig on a rotisserie over him. A few hours later we can have barbecue.
Much better idea, I meant no disrespect to the pig.
So your cure for too much intervention is more intervention?
You are preaching to the choir. See # 48-the poster I was questioning,
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a "LAST" appeal here in the US......there is ALWAYS ONE more appeal left even after the last one!
Of course HANG 'em at sunrise would be even better!!
Hmmm, interesting graphic!
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