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.

[Ladycalif]

[TXBubba]

IMO, the first 100 hours of the new Democratic Congress should be spent on trying to figure out what happened to Nancy Pelosi's face.

Especially if it requires them to stare at her the whole time to figure it out. That ought to paralyze anyone.

[OldFriend]

The accidental president who insisted Poland was not under soviet domination.

That gaffe cost him the election.

He misspoke, and the media went into overdrive.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Alan Colmes is a moron.

[CedarDave]

The Saddamite lawyer must not get out much.

He'd better praise Saddam. He lost his worthless case in court and Saddam's friend will be out to get him!!

[Peach]

I've never heard such support for a genocidal murderer. It's almost like the left supports genocide.

Can you imagine during WWII if we'd captured Hitler and hanged him and journalists over here were talking about the German street and whether hanging was the right thing to do?

[TexKat]

Iraqi-Americans pray for Saddam's death

By KRISTIN LONGLEY, Associated Press Writer

DEARBORN, Mich. - A group of Iraqi-Americans gathered late Friday at a mosque in anticipation of Saddam Hussein's execution, praying for the death of the former Iraqi dictator as drivers outside honked horns in celebration.

Dave Alwatan wore an Iraqi flag around his shoulders and flashed a peace sign to everyone he passed at the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in this suburb of Detroit, a city that has one of the nation's largest concentrations of people with roots in the Middle East.

"Peace," he said, grinning and laughing. "Now there will be peace for my family."

Alwatan, 32, said Saddam's forces tortured and killed relatives that were left behind when Alwatan left Iraq in 1991. He was among about 40 men who gathered at the Islamic center.

The center's director, Imam Husham Al-Husainy, said members prayed for Saddam's death. Outside, traffic slowed as people drove in circles around the mosque, honking horns.

Meanwhile, some local Arab-American leaders warned that Saddam's execution would increase violence in Iraq.

Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and chairman of several Arab-American groups, said the former dictator's death sentence was one more casualty in a war that has killed thousands. He said it will not end the power struggle among Iraqi religious groups.

"The execution might bring some amusement and accomplishment to the Bush administration, but it will not help the Iraqi people," Siblani said. "The problem we're facing in Iraq is going to multiply."

Rauf Naqishbendi, 53, an Iraqi Kurd who moved to the U.S. in 1977, said he was pleased that Hussein was being executed, but lamented that it will not bring back family members who he said were gassed by the dictator's henchman in 1988.

"Psychologically the execution is good news, and people will feel that justice has been served," said Naqishbendi, who lives a few miles south of San Francisco. "But the reality is that it's not going to bring back my family members who he killed."

Naqishbendi followed Hussein's trial closely and said it pained him to watch Hussein rant throughout the proceedings.

"If it wasn't for this tyrant, the Iraqi people wouldn't have to suffer the tragedies now under way," he said.

Siblani, who is also affiliated with the Congress of Arab American Organizations and the Arab American Political Action Committee, said Iraq will "disintegrate" even further after the execution.

The Detroit area's Iraqi community includes a group of Chaldeans, who are Catholic, Arabs and Kurds. Many from Iraq fled their homeland during the rule of Saddam.

Joseph Kassab, executive director of the Chaldean Federation of America, based in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, said his humanitarian organization is against the taking of human life. But, he said, the world must reflect on Saddam's execution, "so we never again relinquish our destiny to tyrants like him."

Imad Hamad, director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, said Saddam's victims were celebrating his impending death, but their happiness was laced with uncertainty about the future.

"Those who have been direct victims of Saddam, they cannot help but celebrate," said Hamad, who is originally a Palestinian from Lebanon.

"The joy would have been complete if we were to see the healthy Iraq, the united Iraq, the safe Iraq," he added. "Then everybody would be jumping up and down, celebrating."

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Associated Press writers David Runk in Detroit and Jason Dearen in San Francisco contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_re_us/us_iraqi_reaction_2

[Red_Devil 232]

"OReilly only did a 30 minute show."

Gee must have been "Breaking News Somewhere"!

[MOgirl]

Hello,

He KEEPS saying WE are doing "this". He knows better, he is lying to the audience.

Colmes is not the nice guy that Sean always talks about. Jerk.

MOgirl

[hispanarepublicana]

Rachael Ray went to a yummy sausage place a while ago and was featuring pork/veal bratwurst. Now I know what would've been appropriate for dinner tonight.

[RonDog]

From www.news1130.com:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. judge refused to stop Saddam Hussein's execution Friday, rejecting a last-minute court challenge by the former Iraqi president.

"Petitioner Hussein's application for immediate, temporary stay of execution is denied," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said after a hearing over the telephone with lawyers.

Hussein's lawyers filed the court challenge late Friday night, giving the judge just hours to act before the execution was expected to be carried out.

Hussein's lawyers argued that because the former Iraqi president also faced a civil lawsuit in Washington, he had rights as a civil defendant that would be violated if he is executed. He has not received notice of those rights and the consequences that the lawsuit would have on his estate, his lawyers said.

[SuziQ]

*snort* Cue the whistling soundtrack from the beginning of Hang Em High.

[OldFriend]

Saddam's lawyer tried to prevail on our court system.

Oh, the irony. They hate our system, they hate the US but they turn to the US for help.

[not2worry]

Pelosi does have that "Michael Jackson" look about her.

[Rte66]

Ya beat me by thismuch!

[GiveEmDubya]

Yeah let's count that.

[JustaCowgirl]

Somebody jumped off a balcony after an execution?

[Mark was here]

Sadam is a loser

Anyone know if there a better way to post a link to a WAV file? When I test it it opens up the media player.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Counts by me, Dog. I am enjoyin' Bacon Bits now.

He-He - Hey Saddam, want some Bacon Bits...? :-)

[NonValueAdded]

You're going to hear from the moron union; I hear they resent that remark, kinda like the GEICO caveman.