Thousands Flock to See Saddam's Grave

AP ^ | 12-31-06 | STEVEN R. HURST

[GulfWar1Vet]

December 30th will become a new holiday for Iraq.

[lawdude]

""In my opinion, something big is going to happen," said Earp, of Colorado. "There will be a response. Probably not today because they know we are looking for one, but soon.""

A true rocket scientist, here!

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Haider Hamed, a 34-year-old candy store owner in east Baghdad, wondered what would really change after Saddam's execution.

"He's gone, but our problems continue," said the Shiite Muslim, whose uncle was killed in one of Saddam's many brutal purges. "We brought problems on ourselves after Saddam because we began fighting Shiite on Sunni and Sunni on Shiite."

So ... at least one person in Baghdad understands.

[alloysteel]

Is there a line set aside for those who wish to urinate upon the grave?

Be worth the trip....

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Needs a fitting tombstone....

[isthisnickcool]

Screw Saddam and everyone in Iraq except for our folks. We should have never allow the American military to go anywhere in the world to fight the moslems unless we are prepared to get medieval. We need to make sure that nobody will mess with us because they know we will destroy them.

[magslinger]

But then no one would know where to put the hog rinds......

Used hog rinds, I hope. Anything else would be wasteful.

[FixitGuy]

"Thousands Flock to See (Pee on) Saddam's Grave"

Knew I wouldn't have top scroll far to see this.

I was about to say,"I wouldn't want to smell that grave in after a week or so.

Might just prevent people frrom kneeling and weeping!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"I condemn the way he was executed and I consider it a crime," said 45-year-old Salam Hassan al-Nasseri".

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Hell, Salam, just be glad I wasn't running that show, I might have hauled him up slow, without tying his hands, over a pool of hungry gators!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"He should have been cremated and his ashes blown over the entire land. Why in the world would they create a monument to this monster that people can visit?"

Maybe they're thinking of doing what the English did to Cromwell:

"As outlandish as it might seem, there is something of a tradition of punishing dictators posthumously. In Mussolini’s case, this occurred a day after his execution. But in the case of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, it actually happened more than two years after his natural death. On January 30, 1661, a year into the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, parliament ordered the posthumous execution of the persons responsible for the regicide of the previous Stuart monarch, Charles i. So, along with those of Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, Oliver Cromwell’s remains were taken from his vault in Henry vii’s chapel and hanged and decapitated. His body was then thrown into an unmarked pit while his head sat on a pike above Westminster Hall for several years. According to the Cromwell Association, it wasn’t until March of 1960 that the head, “a rather undignified collector’s item” over the centuries, found its permanent resting place, “immured in the ante-chapel of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge,” where Cromwell had been an undergraduate."


More here:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2920421.html

[Thumper1960]

I really don't think that a urine soaked ground will stop a mooslime from kneeling before his/her favorite demon.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."

He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."

Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Beethoven decomposing."

(Sorry. I can't help but be gleeful over Saddam's death.)

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"Ahmadinejad said the execution prevented exposure of the secrets and crimes the former dictator committed during his brutal rule."

I like thinking that we (using drugs on him) downloaded whatever saddam knew in the last month or so.....

[antiunion person]

Maybe someday I will have the opportunity to travel to distant lands, see some land marks and piss all over Saddam's grave. Does anything thing that would cause an international incident??

[stevem]

There's tha old story about the Marine DI who tore his wards to ground level before slowly rebuilding them into Marines.

He had one particular recalcitrant that simply took more tearing down than the rest. After an unusually difficult day of hammering and screaming at the recruit, the DI finally, exasperated, said, "I suppose when I die you plan to come and p**s on my grave."

"Sir, no sir," the man replied. "When I leave this man's Corps, I promise, I'll never stand in line again."

[Sundog]

Pour a bottle of whiskey on his grave -- filtered through your kidneys.

[antiunion person]

The responses within Iraq to Saddam's death echoed the larger reaction across the Middle East, with his enemies rejoicing and his defenders proclaiming him a martyr.

Just like Sean Penn is to Americans: One man's trash (Penn and Saddam) is another man's treasure (terrorists).

[Admin Moderator]

You should have said fornication.

[Jim Noble]

I was quoting from a privately prepared 3rd Army transcript, I think the George C. Scott version was altered.

I bow to the authority of the boss, however. Thanks for the followup.