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.

[Theresawithanh]

That's what I'm waiting for, the pictures. CNNs Cooper says they're waiting for them, and will review them to make sure they're not too ghastly. Funny, don't recall any such considerations before by CNN.

[Txsleuth]

CNN said a few minutes ago that Pres. Bush was asleep when the execution happened, and he wasn't woken up...

I LOVE that he slept through it....he doesn't need to take a victory lap for the media.

[Enchante]

NYTIMESSUICIDEWATCH, MOMODOWDLOVESSADDAM, DOWDDEEPLYSADDENED, NYTIMESOUTRAGED

[dfwgator]

It is very fitting! Morrison was a druggie and most of these words are drug-induced but he was a musical genius.

"Let me tell you something. We need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors? Folks, no we don't. I can sum it up for you in five seconds, ok. I'm drunk. I'm nobody. I'm drunk. I'm famous. I'm drunk. I'm f'ing dead. There's the whole movie, ok!? 'Big Fat Dead Guy in a Bath Tub', there's your title for you." - Dennis Leary

[nhoward14]

At this rate I'm, going to fall asleep at the keyboard waiting to see the vid... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[MinuteGal]

Fox made me so ill tonight that I took two freeps and went to bed.

(.....metaphorically speaking, of course).

Leni

[elli1]

I could not help but wonder why they (the males) were not in one or the other U.S. Military uniforms and in Iraq helping to free their own people.

This may explain:

Certain non-citizens can enlist in the United States Armed Forces. To be eligible to enlist, a non-citizen must:

(1) Entered the United States on a permanent residence visa or has an Alien Registration Receipt Card (INS Form 1-551/I-551 greencard or stamped I-94), and

(2) Established a bona fide residence, and

3) Established a home of record in the United States.

The visa and/or "greencard" must have sufficient time remaining on it (expiration date) to be valid during the entire term on enlistment. While non-citizens may enlist in the U.S. Military, they are not allowed to reenlist (stay in beyond their first term of service), unless they first become U.S. Citizens. However, there are accelerated citizenship procedures for non-citizens on active duty.

Link

Anyone who has been a resident of a country considered hostile to the US has to have a special waiver in order to serve in the US military. And, note the 'permanent residence visa' req'mt. That's a different visa from those that are granted for political asylum.

[tioga]

They sure are taking their time releasing the pics. omg.....saddam carried a koran to the gallows.

[Chuck54]

I just got off work about an hour ago. I hope they at least show the pics.

Take a few minutes and read the "keywords" of this thread. You will be totally amused.

[ohioWfan]

Our TV is now off.

I prefer to think about things as they really are, and not through the Iraq-is-a-disaster filter of the media.....INCLUDING Fox.

[eleni121]

Dancing? And well they should be.

Now they had better get to the business of uniting their nation and getting to work eliminating the terrorist dregs in their nation. A few more hundred hangings should do the trick.

Our patience wears thin.

[Old Student]

"Thanks for giving our Nation 24 years of your life!"

I've said before, and I say again, "It was a pleasure and a privilege." If I weren't getting too creaky in the joints, I'd have tried to stay on, or gone Guard, or something. Since I am, I've become a school teacher. Maybe I can teach the kids enough to help avoid some of the mistakes we've made in the past as a nation. Also, despite the mistakes, how very GOOD this country is!

[onyx]

ohioWfan just told me that on the Dose!

How wonderful!!!!

[ohioWfan]

He's at peace, Tx. He has done the right thing, and he knows it.

[Rte66]

Posting now for grins.

[HIDEK6]

omg.....saddam carried a koran to the gallows.

How Clintonian.

[westmichman]

Never had a desire to see the movie cause it was directed by someone worse than Jim Morrison.

[sageb1]

"saddam carried a koran to the gallows."

Yeah. They said he wanted it given to "Bandar."

This Bandar?

http://www.saudiembassy.net/Country/Government/BandarBio.asp

Prince Bandar Biography




His Royal Highness
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

His Royal Highness Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz was appointed Secretary-General of the National Security Council by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on October 16, 2005. Prior to his appointment, Prince Bandar served as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America from October 24, 1983 to September 8, 2005.

Prince Bandar was born in Saudi Arabia on March 2, 1949, at Taif, the summer capital of the Kingdom, the son of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation, and Inspector-General. He is married to Princess Haifa Bint Faisal. He has four sons and four daughters.

Prince Bandar was appointed Ambassador to the United States by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on September 27, 1983 and presented his credentials to President Ronald Reagan on October 24, 1983. On August 7, 1995, he was promoted to the rank of Minister. During his tenure in Washington, Prince Bandar served as the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps.

Prince Bandar graduated from the British Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, England, in 1968 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). He received pilot training in the United Kingdom and the United States, and has flown numerous fighter aircraft including the JP 3-4, T-38, T-33, F-5, F-53/55, F-102, and the F-15. During his seventeen-year military career he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, commanded fighter squadrons at three RSAF bases, and undertook program management responsibilities in the major RSAF modernization project Peace Hawk. In addition, Prince Bandar carried out special assignments in Washington, DC, during the debates between the U.S. administration and the Congress concerning the sale to Saudi Arabia of F-15s in 1978 and of AWACs in 1981. In 1982 he was assigned to Washington, DC, as the Kingdom's defense attaché.

Prince Bandar completed his postgraduate work in several U.S. military schools including staff courses with the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, and with the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair in Washington, DC. He received his master's degree in international public policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, in 1980.

As special envoy for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Prince Bandar was involved in cease-fire negotiations in the Lebanese civil war, and has been instrumental in resolving a number of regional and international crises, such as the Lockerbie incident in 1999. He was the Saudi delegate in the Gulf Cooperation Council mission observing the 1991 Middle East peace talks in Madrid, and has been a regular member of the Kingdom's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly since 1984. Prince Bandar has been awarded many medals and decorations, including the Hawk Flying Medal of Aviation, the King Faisal Medal, and the King Abdulaziz Sash, as well as honors from other nations.

[Rte66]

Well, missed it by 47 seconds, but close enough! We started at 11:11:00 this morning and I wanted my (maybe) last post on the thread to also be at 11:11, 12 hours later!

That's my "magic" time when God is saying hello. Don't laugh.

[elli1]

But he got what he deserved.

That he did. I am satisfied that justice was served.