Saddam Hussein Hanging LIVE Thread

[AVNevis]

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"Ted Bundy had to be dragged from his cell "

Well Bundy can tell Saddam all about it soon!

[COUNTrecount]

[Daus]

And I Believe this is the First in US History, to Execute a Foriegn Leader since WWI?

Quite a few Japanese were hung at the end of WW II for war crimes. Most of the leadership except the Emperor himself.

[rabscuttle385]

It's Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (source). You may remember her from the Microsoft anti-trust trials.

Saddam is doomed. It is now apparent that he will hang tonight (or tomorrow morning, Baghdad time).

He is now in the hands of the living God.

[cmsgop]

Your Wife Rocks, I like her style

[SauronOfMordor]

I live in NYS. Thanks to the 'Rats and RINOs running this state, and the judges they appoint, we can't even croak unrepentant cop killers.

You think you have it bad? We have a cop killer ( Mumia abu-Jamal) WHO HAD HIS OWN RADIO SHOW WHILE HE WAS ON DEATH ROW.

From his Wikipedia entry

Since his imprisonment, Abu-Jamal continued his political activism, publishing Live from Death Row, a book on life inside prisons. He has also completed his Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College, and earned a Master of Arts from California State University, Dominguez Hills, both by distance education. Via tape from his cell he made commencement speeches to graduating classes at UC Santa Cruz, Evergreen State College, Antioch College, and Occidental College, and made frequent commentaries on radio shows. He has his own radio program that airs regularly and can be heard online at Prison Radio [16]. Mumia has been a "guest speaker" on Immortal Technique's musical albums. The organization Axis of Justice interviewed him for their weekly radio show. The magazine Vanity Fair wrote that a supporter of Mumia's, Phillip Bloch, visited him in prison and asked Abu-Jamal whether he regretted shooting a cop, to which Mumia allegedly answered "Yes." Bloch, who otherwise supported Mumia, stated he came forward after he grew concerned about the vilification of Officer Faulkner. Abu-Jamal called Bloch's story 'a rumor-turned-lie.'

[jimbo123]

Saddam in happier times

[dforest]

I bet he made Dan test the food first!

[Ciexyz]

I posted two days ago that it would never happen. Okay, looks like I'll be eating my words.

[Enosh]

Amen to Justice!

[everydayislikesunday]

Isn't all this hanging mullarkey a bit barbaric?

I mean, what did Saddam actually do wrong? He's not the messiah I'd admit, but perhaps he's just a naughty boy.

[steveegg]

I'll let PJ-Comix filter through the DUmmies.

Saddam Watch now at T-minus 1:13 and counting.

[NobleEagle2004]

I Shure hope Dis Hangin is BonaFide!

[wagglebee]

Perky will probably wear the outfit that she purchased in anticipation of Comrade Castro's death.

[Chuck54]

Ted Bundy had to be dragged from his cell to Old Sparky and it was reported he cried like a little girl.Yeah, he delayed his day for quite a while.

I remember the Fla folks and the "mandatory seat belt law" that was just beginnng to be enforced about this time.

Favorite bumper sticker back then, I'll buckle up when Ted buckles up.

[NormsRevenge]

stocking stuffers for next year. :-)

Watches picturing Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein stand on a shelf in a watch repair shop in Tikrit, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 29, 2006. As an Iraqi appeals court upheld Saddam's death sentence on Tuesday, speculation continues about when the sentence would be carried out within the 30 day time frame set by the court. (AP Photo/Bassim Daham)

[cardinal4]

Nitwit Colmes sounds like one of those lawyers..

[woofie]

From DU:

Mortos (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-29-06 08:30 PM
Original message
Who has caused more people to be killed; Saddam or Bush?
Saddam was found guilty of ordering troops to kill 184 people, a truly disgusting inhumane criminal thing to do and it is for that action he has been sentenced to death. Saddam is suspected of causing to be killed (not personally killing) by means of military actions, false imprisonment, kidnapping by secret police, and war within his own country of what, 100,000 - 200,000 human beings? These numbers are all estimates and no one knows how many people died as a direct result of Saddams orders. Saddam committed these acts over a 30 year period during which he was the President of Iraq he was also an ally of the United States for most of his tenure.


In only six short years, George W. Bush has caused, by his direct actions and orders, the deaths of 3,000 U.S. troops, somewhere between 50,000 (by his own estimate) and 600,000 (estimate of "The Lancet" by interviewing people in Iraq) Iraqi civilians and uncounted injuries. He has also allegedly encouraged some of the same acts Saddam has been rightfully villified for; kidnappings, torture, rendition, imprisonment without trial, and retaliatory destruction of entire Iraqi towns.

How do we justify killing one leader who caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands and let another continue his killing spree unabated?

I wonder how Bush would fare in a trial in Iraq?
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Bush - you have to include 9/11 and Katrina numbers to it.... Cooley Hurd Dec-29-06 08:31 PM #1
This kind of moral relativism is unseemly. Both are guilty of crimes

[NonValueAdded]

Yeah, Sen. Webb even wrote a book about it.

[Cementjungle]

I mean, what did Saddam actually do wrong? He's not the messiah I'd admit, but perhaps he's just a naughty boy.

Just a few million murders, among other things.