Posted on 05/19/2005 10:18:04 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
THE noose beckons for the world’s most notorious prisoner as he whiles away his last days in an Iraqi jail.
Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad, is today a broken man.
But hanging will be seen by victims and their relatives as too good for him after his sadistic 30-year reign of terror.
As The Sun newspaper's graphic pictures show, his years of corrupt and absolute power are over.
Moves are under way to spare his life in an act of mercy HE refused his victims.
But we learned last night that Saddam is almost certainly doomed to die.
He is being held behind bars and barbed wire somewhere near Baghdad awaiting trial some time next year.
He will be charged with crimes against humanity.
Tony Blair opposes the death penalty which is banned in Europe.
America, where murderers are still executed, is unlikely to interfere.
The tyrant’s life may yet be saved in an act of clemency for the sake of Arab unity.
That move is almost certain to be voted down by a new regime which wants justice to be seen to be done.
The final verdict will be reached by Saddam’s own people, not by the West.
The new Iraqi government is split over the punishment to be meted out.
President Jalal Talkabani has publicly refused to sign Saddam’s death warrant.
But he risks being outvoted — and even toppled — if he resists a clamour from the Iraqi people to take the ultimate sanction.
He has let it be known he will not stand in the way of a coalition majority.
“My two partners in the presidency, the government, the House — all of them are for sentencing Saddam to death,” he told the BBC.
“So I think I will be alone in this.”
The trial of the century has been delayed by acts of violence by insurgents, including former supporters of the Saddam regime.
Proof of his atrocities is abundant. Documentary evidence, scrupulously hoarded by Iraqi officials show the scale of his corruption and villainy.
But witnesses who can give detailed testimony on his slaughter have been threatened with death.
Everyone connected with his looming trial is at risk. A senior judge and a lawyer have already been assassinated.
The location of Saddam’s jail is top secret, with American forces determined to thwart “loyalist” attempts to free him. Few have deserved the scaffold more than the Butcher of Baghdad.
Thousands would have prayed for a quick death instead of the unspeakable torture meted out in his bleak jails.
Some were electrocuted, whipped with barbed wire and garotted. Others were condemned to roast alive in steel coffins left in the Iraqi desert sun.
Saddam encouraged his evil sons, Uday and Qusay to use human beings as toys.
Even opponents of the death penalty or the anti-war brigade would find it difficult to raise support for sparing Saddam's life.
Almost everyone will remember how the deposed dictator ruthlessly murdered his closest allies and family members during his bloody reign.
But it will be his fiercest opponents during those dark days who will show astonishing humility by refusing to stoop to his own barbaric level.
The location of Saddam’s jail is top secret, with American forces determined to thwart “loyalist” attempts to free him. Few have deserved the scaffold more than the Butcher of Baghdad.
The Iraqi government should make it known throughout Iraq that if Saddam's jail is found and attacked, the first person to be shot will be Saddam himself.
Saddam, this is not what they meant when they said, "You are SO hung."
Wow...someone needs to learn to write...
Hah that's not Saddam....everyone knows he has a superfluous third nipple !
That someone being Trevor Kavanagh, I see. Anyway just try to read the article from start to finish. I dare you.
It's The Sun...enough said.
Lower him into his people shredder, slowly. An inch an hour.
"...by refusing to stoop to his own barbaric level."
Humbug! Kill the murdering b@stid, NO MERCY! Put away your little white hankie, Mr. Kavanagh.
Too fast - slow the speed down to 1 inch every 3 hours until his knees go, than cut the speed in half until his #$%^& get crushed - than go back to your speed of an inch each hour.
Saddam has seen his children killed and he has lost everything. He still deserves to die an excruciating death in his underwear.
Justice properly administered is not the same as "stooping to (Saddam's) barbaric level." Is God to be considered barbaric when he destroys the rejecters of his grace at the final judgement?
Way too cruel. I vote for amnesty and a condo on the French Riviera.
OK, we'll compromise. An inch and a half an hour.
“My two partners in the presidency, the government, the House — all of them are for sentencing Saddam to death,” he told the BBC.
All those that suffered under his reign of terror deserve the closure of his hanging .
I agree, and the sooner the better
Hang the Bass-tuard already! What is the holdup? His crimes are common knowledge and continue to be propagated by the leftover scum from his regime. Hang 'em today and make Dan Rather, Chiraq, Putin, Kofi, Martin, Galloway, etc. attend! He has had all the justice he deserves.
As long as Saddam is around the Iraqi people will never feel secure. Once they hang him then the bathist will exposed, once again, for the terrorists criminals they are. His execution doesn't have to be exotic either, a simple stretch of the neck will do, not for his dignity, but the new government's.
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