Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence Is Hanged for Crimes Against Humanity

nytimes.com ^ | 12/30/06 | Marc Santora and James Glanz

[beyond the sea]

BAGHDAD, Saturday, Dec. 30 — Saddam Hussein, the dictator who led Iraq through three decades of brutality, war and bombast before American forces chased him from his capital city and captured him in a filthy pit near his hometown, was hanged just before dawn Saturday during the morning call to prayer.

The final stages for Mr. Hussein, 69, came with terrible swiftness after he lost the appeal, five days ago, of his death sentence for the killings of 148 men and boys in the northern town of Dujail in 1982. He had received the sentence less than two months before from a special court set up to judge his reign as the almost unchallenged dictator of Iraq.

[beyond the sea]

“He just gave up,” said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser. “We were astonished. It was strange. He just gave up.”

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Would have been better this way.

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[beyond the sea]

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[unixfox]

One Western official said that some of the American legal advisers working on the case appeared stunned at the hasty pace of events late Friday as they walked through the corridors of the Republican Palace, once Mr. Hussein’s grandiose center of power.

Unbelievable. NOT!

[3AngelaD]

I hope that skinny creep who runs Iran is watching all of this.

[dead]

The final stages for Mr. Hussein, 69, came with terrible swiftness

Terrible for the Times.

[beyond the sea]

Yes........... he needs the Mu'ammar Gadhafi treatment.

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[beyond the sea]

Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence Is Hanged –----- his wife was right all along.......... he was well hung.

[johnny7]

Indeed... to them, he was a force for 'stability'... much like the Soviet Union.

[beyond the sea]

Ouch!

[KeyLargo]

Yep, NY slimes says that under Saddam things were rosy. If we could only all just get along! Barf


"...he ruled over an oil-rich country that was an economic and technical powerhouse in the Middle East with rising cultural and political influence. When he hurtled through the trap door of the gallows Saturday morning, the nation he left behind was a smashed and traumatized remnant, desperately trying to restore its own identity and its place in the world.


Western invaders proved unable to control a country in the aftermath of totalitarian rule.

“The execution of Saddam means that the flame of vengeance will be ignited and it will hurt the body of Iraq with unrecoverable wound,” the sheik said.


Mr. Hussein was also a unifying force whose painful grip held together Iraq’s many ethnicities and sects. Now, three years after his fall, Iraq has descended further into chaos."

[varon]

The final stages for Mr. Hussein, 69, came with terrible swiftness after he lost the appeal, five days ago, of his death sentence for the killings of 148 men and boys in the northern town of Dujail in 1982.

I'm confident that the 148 men and boys were killed under Mr. Hussein's orders and not by his own hand. This begs the question as to how many Branch Davidian men, women and children were fried under orders of Janet Reno and how the trial against her is progressing?

[Bigh4u2]

"Mr. Hussein was also a unifying force whose painful grip held together Iraq’s many ethnicities and sects." Yeah. Hitler was a 'unifying force' too, but I don't miss him either. New York Slimes fits really well.

[cricket]

The sheer volume of his crimes negated the 'time' needed to see this man into a final Justice.

Justice delayed IS Justice denied. And yes, can see the Libs and every Lib lawyer, having a real hard time with this. . .

(anyone watch Alan Colmes last night with Hannity. . .Alan was beyond rediculous in his 'search for' a rationale to support not executing Saddam. He could not grasp and most likely NEVER will understand what genuine Justice - in our world - requires. Liberalism acts like the ultimate security blanket for those so inclined; but it is as well, a 'blanket of ignorance'.)

[COUNTrecount]

.. came with terrible swiftness after he lost the appeal, five days ago, of his death sentence for the killings of 148 men and boys in the northern town of Dujail in 1982.

Hey NYT, these people think it didn't come soon enough.

[cricket]

"Mr. Hussein was also a unifying force whose painful grip held together Iraq’s many ethnicities and sects.". .Yeah. Hitler was a 'unifying force' too, but I don't miss him either. New York Slimes fits really well.

I love this Lib position on Iraq. . .and wonder, if someday; should 'they' rule here; if they would consider this mode of 'uniting' our country; given the tactics they thus far use; and the terrorist 'mode' they appear to support.

And of course. . .this from the 'We Are the World' people. . .would be funny if not just too pathetic. . .

Would like to see that old commercial again. . .count the faces. . .compare the 'today' rhetoric. Hypocritical, lying libs. . .all of them. . .

[SALChamps03]

I'm confident that the 148 men and boys were killed under Mr. Hussein's orders and not by his own hand. This begs the question as to how many Branch Davidian men, women and children were fried under orders of Janet Reno and how the trial against her is progressing?

Please do not compare Saddam and his crimes with what happened in Texas. david Koresh was a child molestor and in violation of federal law. Big difference. They had the opportunity to surrender and would not have been killed.

[Orange1998]

Furthermore, in 1988, the Dow Chemical company sold $1.5m-worth (£930,000) of pesticides to Iraq despite suspicions they would be used for chemical warfare.

Hyprocrisy at its best? You decide ...

107 posted on 12/30/2006 2:49:01 AM CST by IsraelBeach

I did not know this. They should be held accountable too.

[expatpat]

if they would consider this mode of 'uniting' our country

Of course they would, as long as it were a socialist dictatorship.

[cricket]

Of course they would, as long as it were a socialist dictatorship.

If 'Libs ruled'; what else could it be?