Saddam may face execution after trial next month

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 20 September, 2004 | David Rennie & Jack Fairweather

[tjwmason]

Good from Prime Minister Allawi.

Give him a fair trial, treat him decently in the meantime, and then hang him by the neck until he is dead.

[Michael Goldsberry]

I doubt it will be a hanging. Arabs behead the condemned.

Not THAT'S a video I won't cringe at while watching.

[tdadams]

Let's hang the guy on November 1^st.

[Teflonic]

It would be nice of them to let President Bush behead him
on TV as an October surprise. :P

[2banana]

An October trial would offer a powerful political boost to President George W Bush in the run-up to the presidential election on Nov 2.

You are damn straight! And the world needs to be reminded of the heinous crimes of Saddam (just like the Nuremberg Trials)...

[VRWCmember]

"You'll be given a fair trial, followed by a damn fine hanging."
- Brian Dennehy's character in "Silverado"

[TexasTransplant]

A thousand cuts and if he isn't dead 1001, 1002, 1003 all the while play back to him his recorded screams, blood transfusions to keep him alive and may he last for weeks.

[cynicom]

I think we should be fair to Saddam, give him an option.
Death by beheading or hanging with slow strangulation. This the least we should do.

[Dilbert56]

Gee, it would be a real shame if the next few weeks were full of graphic proof that Saddam was another Hitler. Perfect opportunity for Kerry to flip back.

"OK, it was the right war but in the wrong place and the wrong time."

But Senator, could you fight Saddam somewhere other than Iraq?

"OK, it was the right war in the right place but the wrong time."

Senator, what would be the right time?

I'll not have you attacking my patriotism. I served in Vietnam you know.

[hoosiermama]

I question the timing of all this........;^)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is a necessary step, along with elections.

Once Saddam has been given a fair trial and executed, the new regime will have a lot more credibility with the Iraqi people, which is exactly what it needs.

[stuartcr]

I have a feeling he won't be executed.

[wayoverontheright]

Saddam's execution.....when it happens, the symbolism will deliver a powerful rebuke to those who opposed the Iraq war. The thrust of their pretzel logic has involved the claim that the Iraqi PEOPLE didn't want this intrusion, that Iraq represented no harms to us, oblivious to the harm Saddam was doing to the Iraqis themselves. When the people of Iraq execute this man, the LIBERATION will be clear to the whole world, and put the lie to the "wrong war" claims, IMHO.

[Tom Bombadil]

I have a feeling he won't be executed.

Could be.....Justice would probably require shredding but you are right........Who knows what is going to happen?

[DSBull]

I think that you are correct, but wait a minute. Since the people of Iraq seem to be unappreciative of our efforts there, maybe we should use the mass murderer to our advantage. Threaten the whole of Iraq with reinstating Saddam and most of his henchmen. I wonder if then they might start turning in insurgence leaders and foreign fighters and collaborators. UHMMMMM! Just a thought....

[reagan_fanatic]

If you think Saddam's crimes against his own people will shock the jury at his trial, just wait until Achmed al-Rather presents evidence that Saddam never served in the Iraqi National Guard *GASP*

They'll hang him right there in the courtroom.

[Cultural Jihad]

Saddam Hussein, now being held in one of his former Baghdad palaces, . . .

A news report yesterday "SADDAM: VOTE ME IN AS YOUR PRESIDENT" concerning the dictator's plan to run for election (for the very first time) reported this:

Hussein, 67, who is no longer in Iraq but in a secret location, has said . . .

[Aquinasfan]

though he has been demanding muffins, cookies and cigars.

I don't think he's in a position to negotiate.

[mombonn]

In his cell, he has a fold-up bed, a small desk and plastic chair, a supply of bottled water and ice, a prayer mat, the Koran and his choice from a Red Cross library of 170 Arabic-language books.

While I'm all in favor of the death penalty, I take a great deal of satisfaction that he has been reduced to a cell with a fold-up bed and a plastic chair.

It is probably worse than physical torture or death for him. Didn't I read somewhere that there is a picture of President Bush hanging on the wall? LOL