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.

[bnelson44]

LATEST: US State Department says Saddam Hussein still in US custody in Iraq. More soon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[steveegg]

Sunrise doesn't matter, unless that's the time the Iraqis choose to hang him. It's sunset that matters, at least if they didn't "standardize" it to 6 pm, and it's about 5:07 pm in Baghdad.

[mewzilla]

I think it would've been far more fitting to hang the expletive-deleted with his own rope, though.

[debg]

Prediction: Saddam hangs news >> massive stampede at Hajj.

[TexKat]

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[Wolfstar]

After all, OBL is indeed the one who started this war.

Actually, that isn't accurate. Radical Islamists declared war on us, and began acting on their declaration, long before we woke up to the fact on 9/11/01. About 25 years before, give or take a couple of years.

[retrokitten]

Urgh.

My SIL is a flaming lib, but she's vastly out numbered at family gatherings, so keeps her mouth shut and just sits there rolling her eyes like she's 13 (she's 35).

Every once in a while something utterly mental spews out of her mouth. On Christmas Eve she said something about President Bush not being her president. I was hoping it meant she had renounced her citizenship and was leaving the country effective immediately, but no. :-(

[Red_Devil 232]

A "third party" ? Who is the third party, Iran?

Actually Saddam has been "legally" in Iraqi custody since sometime in 2004. After the hand over Iraq requested that the U.S. keep a physical watch over him for safety and security reasons. He is in "physical custody" not "legal custody" by the U.S.

[Paperdoll]

>Wait 20 minutes after the announcement of his demise then roll up the Mahdi Army, all their ammo will be gone from firing in the air.<

LOL! You are probably right on! :o)

[bray]

You suppose Mike Wallace is crying like a baby about now?? Course who in the Stone Age Press isn't??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Sacajaweau]

I think the media is just mixing things up. There's legal custody and physical custody. He will remain in joint physical custody right till the end.

[Current Occupant]

Just so it doesn't break.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

Is CNN still running the loop of film showing Saddam kissing babies?

No no - it's Saddam that will be running on a loop. Common mistake.

[awakened]

Can you imagine the conflicting reports about his actual hanging? He's dead.... breaking news: he's to be hung in 10 minutes...... We have it straight from the BBC that he has been dead for a month...... No wait, he's been pardoned by Ted Kennedy.......

[joebuck]

"all their ammo will be gone from firing in the air"

That, by definition, would make them moderate Muslims.

[Wolfstar]

I think that SH will go directly from US Custody to the gallows for security reasons.

I think you're right. Someone up the thread about a 100 posts or so, expressed the opinion that transfer of custody might only be via paperwork, and that physical custody will remain with our soldiers until the very end. I think that makes a great deal of sense. I also think the difference between a paper vs. a physical transfer is probably the reason we are getting so many conflicting reports about the transfer of custody.

[Tijeras_Slim]

• Julia Roberts expecting third child

Saddam probably want's to get it over with before he has to read about this in People magazine.

[retrokitten]

Prediction: Saddam hangs news >> massive stampede at Hajj.

Someone could fart and it would cause a massive stampede at Hajj. What doesn't set them off?

[null and void]

I am confused.....the more you weigh the LESS you drop? ???

Yes, there has to be enough force to snap the neck.

Too short a drop on a lighter person and it's dangle and strangle.

Too far on a lard ass and it's no longer a hanging, it's a decapitation.

I guess I'm safe, I'm off the chart...

[najida]

Is he dead yet?