Of couse it was celebratory, CNN. Stop spinning.
Chanting to celebrate?
And he won't be shaking his finger at the next Judge he faces, either.
I'll bet it really galled CNN to have to report on his execution.
...didn't Saddam win 100% of the Iraqi vote in late 90's in what I was told were the fairest elections the world has ever seen?
So why are the Iraqis so happy right now? Why did they even find him guilty to begin with?
I love how CNN is so very specific, so very early in the story that these are GOVERNMENT PEOPLE doing the chanting--making sure no one thinks these are just regular folks.
If only they were just as specific in other stories involving spontaneous (?) demonstrations.
Al-Sadr and Mullahs in Iran will celebrate this too.
It's going to be hard now for the Liberals to posit that we'd be better off if Saddam were still in power. After all, Saddam is in hell, so he can no longer serve as the Iraqi dictator in a way that the Liberals prefer.
It's going to be hard now for the Liberals to posit that we'd be better off if Saddam were still in power. After all, Saddam is in hell, so he can no longer serve as the Iraqi dictator in a way that the Liberals prefer.
CNN, you're the so-called newshounds. Why didn't your reporters figure out whether the shooting was celebratory or violently reactionary before reporting this shinola of a story?
Temperatures hovered around freezing hours after the hanging at the start of a Muslim holy day, and CNN correspondents reported relatively few Iraqis on the streets of Baghdad.
Wait a minute? I thought there was a bunch of Global WarmingTM going on all over the world ... yes, Algore promised it and therefore it is so ... how can temperatures be near freezing in the desert of Baghdad when they are some 50 degrees in New York City?
/pffffttt rant off
Note, how CNN avoids discussing Saddam's bloody regime.
The UK Guardian, a liberal UK paper actually talks about it. WHere does that put CNN -- but we already know that.
A thug who used terror and war to stay in power (Saddam Hussein -- "must read")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760197/posts
Promptly he led Iraq into war with Iran, a punishing eight-year conflict that left more than 1 million people dead.
War was to characterise Saddam's rule, the glue he used to hold together his country and to maintain the dominance of his Sunni Muslim minority over the persecuted Shia and Kurdish communities.
As the Iran-Iraq war ended, he went into battle against the Kurds of northern Iraq, committing some of the gravest war crimes of his regime, wiping out villages with chemical gas attacks at a time when he was still an ally of the west. He sent his forces storming into Kuwait in 1990, disguising a long-harboured land grab with atavistic notions of pan-Arab unity. When western forces pushed his troops back, he then went to war on the Shia and the Kurds who had risen up in rebellion against him at home. He deployed his troops and his attack helicopters and the uprising was crushed with summary brutality. Graves across the south and the north were filled with the bodies of thousands of rebels. Most of those corpses were only recovered, mourned and reburied 12 years later, after Saddam's fall. The most modest assessments put at 200,000 the number of Iraqis who "disappeared" in the Saddam years.
This may spark some violence at the insurgents???
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Anyone know who has the Detroit ping list?
News is reporting that Detroit is the biggest populated Muslim area in the US and that they are out in the streets celebrating Husseins demise and journey into death/hell. ( I don't pretend to know how soon he will meet the 72 virgins/female demons or what God's judgement is).
Just looking at this from human veiw that he is in hell. Can't wait untill those flesh melting std old demonic 72 hags of hell start wanting to party with the dead old fart.
Ahhh Paradise. NOT!
Translation: reporter is afraid to venture outside and interview the celebrating gunmen.Reporter is a Liberal Socialist POS, who thinks that guns are evil.He is afraid. He belongs somewhere in Europe reporting on the efficacy of French Cuisine, with all the other gurly men.