Posted on 12/30/2006 3:35:59 PM PST by doug from upland
Because the videos may be lost on other threads, perhaps this thread can be the reference for posting.
The hanging video is on Google, and there are some scenes from the trial. There may be other important historical video footage that we shouldn't miss. Please bring them here. Thanks.
Yes, is does.
There is a word for that too.
Justice
Consider the WW2 memorial. It quotes FDR's declaration of war address yet cuts off "so help us God" at the end of the sentence. Consider all the "false but accurate" news which has gone around in recent years. Consider the Holocaust denier's conference in Iran recently...
The hanging scene was obviously a clandestine recording, not the official recording - but it does show him drop through the hole...
I grok that, but watching Saddam swing is like burning ants with a magnifying glass. You don't do it because it's right....you do it because you can.
Its not watching for enjoyment, but a sense of SATISFACTION that in this one case of a mass-murdering tyrant, JUSTICE was done. There is nothing particularly shocking about this video. Its quick and clean - they did a good job of making sure his neck snapped immediately.
Get out...For real???
I get more upset when I see dead animals on the road.
She said something about making it safely across the border, hopefully. Or was it about bin Laden? Now I can't remember which, but she said it.
This is not a video but here is an article about what Couric said:
http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/showinside.pl?a=2003/4/10/133522
Thanks. That's it.
hey...how ya been ? happy new year to ya too
Thank you both
Happy New Year!
I guess this means you don't want that boxed set of "Faces of Death" :)
zacktly
never understood people who watched those, either
The hanging uncut -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760606/posts
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