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.

[oldenuff2no]

They should have built an outhouse on top of that spider hole and invited the military to rest over night in that area. They would have had to burn it in a few days to get rid of the stink.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Well if you can't trust Reuters and the AP, who can you...

Never mind.

[null and void]

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

KEWL!

[ssaftler]

Do you want another recount?

Yes, and keep doing it until it comes out in the favor of the Live Saddams. I KNOW that this is a vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to keep Saddam from his rightful place as President for Life of Iraq!

[ARealMothersSonForever]

The back-channel negotiations must be intense. I will be surprised if they actually hang him now. None of the newsies are mentioning the clemency built in to the Iraqi law regarding the death penalty. Wonder why?

[bray]

Will the DNC lower its Hammer & Sickle to half staffed??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[MeekOneGOP]

[Steve_Seattle]

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

Here in Washington a few years ago, there was an obese prisoner who got a judge to declare his upcoming hanging unconstitutional for that very reason - the guy was so fat that any hanging would have decapitated him. But I think the guy later died in prison of natural causes, a heart attack or kidney failure, I think.

[sodpoodle]

It strains credulity to believe that the WH & DOD were not already fully informed and participating in the security planning.

"Pentagon: U.S. forces ready for violence"

That statement is a little redundant^

[Theresawithanh]

This waiting is driving me crazy, with all the conflicting reports I'm reading here and seeing on TV. GET ON WITH IT, ALREADY, HANG THE B@SSTURD!

[r-q-tek86]

"he's not dead yet..."

[mewzilla]

From this link...

Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves:

Since the Saddam Hussein regime was overthrown in May, 270 mass graves have been reported. By mid-January, 2004, the number of confirmed sites climbed to fifty-three. Some graves hold a few dozen bodies—their arms lashed together and the bullet holes in the backs of skulls testimony to their execution. Other graves go on for hundreds of meters, densely packed with thousands of bodies.

"We've already discovered just so far the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair on November 20 in London. The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. "Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been 'disappeared' by the Iraqi government over the past two decades," said the group in a statement in May. "Many of these 'disappeared' are those whose remains are now being unearthed in mass graves all over Iraq."

If these numbers prove accurate, they represent a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s, and the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

[sam_paine]

IT WAS YOU ON THE GRASSY KNOLL WASN'T IT !

Yes, it wasn't!

[Rte66]

Ha, I accidentally left the sound on a TV infomercial the other night and they were touting their product as being praised by

"Rooters"

LMAO - you know it must be good!

[weegee]

Heard an hourly update on 740AM, Houston's only "news" radio station (slowly migrating to News-Talk, with the move of Rush from their declining "talk" station, 950AM).
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

The local anchor said that "they" would provide full coverage on that station, including any violence that breaks out in Iraq as a result.

To me that was an odd stance for a reporter to take. Perhaps there will be mass celebrations in Iraq.

I never hear them say "we will provide full coverage of the post-victory riots" after the Superbowl, World Series, etc. even though violence DOES break out.

[awakened]

LOL

[Wolfstar]

Thanks for the article. I suspect there will be a round of increased violence, but hope that once Hussein is well and truly dead, that will be the beginning of the end of sectarian violence there.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep!

Poetic justice would be SADdam pitched into
that GIANT shredder he used on his own people!

[Tijeras_Slim]

"I stood in line for 6 hours, and they're all out of corndogs! STAMPEDE! STAMPEDE!"

[A_perfect_lady]

Picturing Ramsey Clark singing "Let Him GO!" Bush and Cheney singing "We will not let him go"

Oh man, please, please let someone who is really good with graphics read that...