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News Flash: Saddam may be executed within next 24 hours

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hellokeith

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The Iraqi government is "anxious to get Saddam's execution done" and that it is likely to be carried out before the New Year ? perhaps even within the next 24 hours, a U.S. military official told FOX News.

This official said American forces are now in the process of finalizing the former Iraqi dictator's transfer to Iraqi custody and to the location where he would be executed. Several U.S. officials said they are not ruling out the possibility that Saddam will be put to death as early as Friday.

Iraq's highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam's appeal against his conviction and death sentence for the killing of 148 Shiites in the northern city of Dujail in 1982. The court said the former dictator should be hanged within 30 days.
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Hundreds of Iraqis have offered to act as hangman in the execution of Saddam Hussein, according to senior officials in the Baghdad Government.

Some requests have been e-mailed to the office of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, from around the world. Mr. al-Maliki has also been directly petitioned by government officials who want to place the noose around Saddam?s neck.

Many ordinary Justice Ministry employees are too terrified to carry out an execution, fearing reprisals from the dead man?s family. Those who do volunteer to act as the executioner may well have lost a relative to violence in the post-Saddam era or had a relative killed by Saddam?s regime.
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It's about time. This should break the back of any remaining baathist loyalists. Probably won't affect the Iranians and Syrians interference, but the many raped and oppressed during his dictatorship will get some deserved justice.
 
"This should break the back of any remaining baathist loyalists"

Pure wishful thinking. Baathism is a homegrown secular political movement and philosophy- it existed before Saddam came to power, and will likely survive his perversion of it and his demise, as well...

"Probably won't affect the Iranians and Syrians interference, "

Pure conjecture to suggest that such even exists at a significant level...

"but the many raped and oppressed during his dictatorship will get some deserved justice."

Uhh, OK- when do those raped and oppressed during the current occupation get their justice? Who gets hung for that?

Stretching Saddam's neck will provide a little feel-good thrill for the Bush Faithful, and a sigh of relief from his political opponents in Iraq. Maybe embolden the commanders of the Shia deathsquads. It'll be a brief distraction from the fact that US interference has taken the country from bad to worse...



 
Yep, we put him in power and let him do whatever he wanted without batting an eye. I actually think the whole region would be better off if he was still in power. At least we would have someone who would stand up to Iran, which I believe was the reason we put him in power in the first place.
 
I would rather see him executed in a year or five, after our troops are largely out of Iraq (I hope). Executing Hussein now will spark an upsurge in retaliatory violence, and more of our soldiers will die because of it.
 
What I would like to see is Saddam walked to the Gallos.

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...

Mercy.

You shall spend the rest of your days in an Iraqi Prison.

All broadcast on International Television.

We spend so much time teaching killing and revenge. What an opportunity to teach the world Mercy.
 
So... lets see...

We toppled the sovereign nation of Iraq which was ruled by Saddam... in violation of UN and International law... installed a 'puppet' government including the judicial branch... round up the president of Iraq, jail him, try him for crimes he most likely ordered and then rejoice at his pending execution... Amazing!!!

I find this entire fiasco just another event, another death in the march away from the rule of law and into the inferno of power.

The only analogy I can see is if somehow the US government was toppled by Uganda and Bush was jailed and etc etc... death is death in war - civil or otherwise... In Saddam's case we urged and helped him in the very endevors he was, in part, charged with...

Simply amazing... sure hope all the 'big stick' carriers are happy... you have used the stick of power to reduce the very basis upon which sticks are made big....
 
Let's get every vertebrae-cracking, leg-twitching moment on prime-time commercial television. With an introduction by George W. Bush explaining to us how this execution will make the world a better place.
 
Originally posted by: shira
Let's get every vertebrae-cracking, leg-twitching moment on prime-time commercial television. With an introduction by George W. Bush explaining to us how this execution will make the world a better place.
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Followed by a BS reason for it to have cost us ~3000 of our lives. Oh and still climbing...
 
I am sure most of the Shia in the region will be delighted. While most of the Sunnis in the region will be out raged. Iran would be glad to finally see Saddam dead. He was the one person they feared the most.
 
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
What I would like to see is Saddam walked to the Gallos.

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...

Mercy.

You shall spend the rest of your days in an Iraqi Prison.

All broadcast on International Television.

We spend so much time teaching killing and revenge. What an opportunity to teach the world Mercy.
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that would be pretty amazing.....of course it will never happen...
 
Originally posted by: Jhhnn
"but the many raped and oppressed during his dictatorship will get some deserved justice."

Uhh, OK- when do those raped and oppressed during the current occupation get their justice? Who gets hung for that?
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No sh!t. The OP, by claiming justice will be served for the oppressed during Saddam's romp in Iraq, is indicting Bush at the same time. Who will hang for our romp? Bush? Not likely..
 
Executing Saddam
Saddam seems to understand his fate, though he remains deluded about his role in the crimes for which he is being held to account. On Wednesday, he released a grandiloquent "farewell" letter whose humane tone belies its genocidal author.

In the letter, Saddam calls on Iraqis "not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking." This coming from a man who treated his countrymen like insects in need of zapping -- who thought nothing of wiping out whole Shiite and Kurdish villages if it suited his convenience. His eventual death will be the result of a conviction for ordering the murder of 150 Shiites in 1982. However, this is but a fraction of the untold tens of thousands who died at Saddam's hands.

Later in the letter, Saddam suddenly switches tone, proclaiming, "Long live jihad and the mujahedeen," voicing support for the Sunni insurgency and claiming God will help Iraq win the fight against "unjust nations." Even within the cynical make-believe world of this single letter, Saddam apparently was not able to maintain the facade of tolerance. It is fitting that the last words he writes should be animated by the bigotry and bellicosity that fuelled his reign of terror before America's army toppled him from power in 2003.

Over the last three and a half years there has been a fierce debate -- even among war supporters -- about the legitimacy of this war, and the tactics used to fight it. But one thing that should not be in dispute is that the world is a better place for Saddam's ouster. In his letter, Saddam indicated he would "offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if He wants, He will send it to heaven with the martyrs." We have a strong feeling that God has other plans.
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It'll be good to see this done and behind us.
 
Wow, I can't wait to see what my parents have to say about this. We lived in Kuwait until the Iraq invasion. My parents hated Saddam then obviously. Now, we live in the U.S. and you can guess who they hate.

Interesting. I'm surprised Saddam didn't mention the U.S. giving him chemical weapons back in the day (that he used against Iran) during his trial.

At least Iran is happy.
 
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
What I would like to see is Saddam walked to the Gallos.

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...

Mercy.

You shall spend the rest of your days in an Iraqi Prison.

All broadcast on International Television.

We spend so much time teaching killing and revenge. What an opportunity to teach the world Mercy.
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How about this one

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...


A fighting chance
The 3 men walk towards each other, each has the look of Clint in his eye
Another man emerges from the crowd and ties a rope around each combatants wrist
The rope is joined at a 10 ft center, each man is stripped to his pants and handed a 3 ft sword
Music begins to build...DA DUH DUN NA DA DUH DUN NAAAAAAAA
The men circle, each staying the length of his rope
Saddam makes the first move, he lunges at Bush
GW makes a run to his left with the PM screaming off to the right

Suddenly out of no where, GW tosses the sword away and extends out his arm
There it was..... GW pointed Saddams old pistol at him and grinned

The scene fades away with a shot of Spock raising his eyebrow
 
Originally posted by: Orignal Earl
Originally posted by: GoPackGo
What I would like to see is Saddam walked to the Gallos.

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...

Mercy.

You shall spend the rest of your days in an Iraqi Prison.

All broadcast on International Television.

We spend so much time teaching killing and revenge. What an opportunity to teach the world Mercy.
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How about this one

As he stands on the platform with his Noose around his neck.

A hush befalls the room.

Walks in President Bush and the Prime Minister of Iraq.

They walk up to him and say....

We will give you something that you gave very few of your people...


A fighting chance
The 3 men walk towards each other, each has the look of Clint in his eye
Another man emerges from the crowd and ties a rope around each combatants wrist
The rope is joined at a 10 ft center, each man is stripped to his pants and handed a 3 ft sword
Music begins to build...DA DUH DUN NA DA DUH DUN NAAAAAAAA
The men circle, each staying the length of his rope
Saddam makes the first move, he lunges at Bush
GW makes a run to his left with the PM screaming off to the right

Suddenly out of no where, GW tosses the sword away and extends out his arm
There it was..... GW pointed Saddams old pistol at him and grinned

The scene fades away with a shot of Spock raising his eyebrow
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10/10! Marvelous response. 😀
 
I wonder how we will feel if someday GWB stands convicted as an international war criminal---and stands at the gallows with the blood of hundreds of thousands of peoples killed---but hold on---real international war crimes tribunals
no longer impose a death penality.

And dead men tell no tales---the only losers will be us the people---who will now never now learn how much the USA conspired with Saddam when he was our man in Iraq.

But I remember the man on the street interviews in the early months of the Iraq war---consesus opinion was---saddam had become irrelevant---and here---nearly four years later--the Iraqi people are still waiting for a government to replace what they had--and are still waiting while they get death squads as the reality on the streets.
 
Originally posted by: hellokeith
This thread will be locked if it turns into a bash Bush thread

Anandtech Moderator

The Iraqi government is "anxious to get Saddam's execution done" and that it is likely to be carried out before the New Year ? perhaps even within the next 24 hours, a U.S. military official told FOX News.

This official said American forces are now in the process of finalizing the former Iraqi dictator's transfer to Iraqi custody and to the location where he would be executed. Several U.S. officials said they are not ruling out the possibility that Saddam will be put to death as early as Friday.

Iraq's highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam's appeal against his conviction and death sentence for the killing of 148 Shiites in the northern city of Dujail in 1982. The court said the former dictator should be hanged within 30 days.
Click to expand...

Hundreds of Iraqis have offered to act as hangman in the execution of Saddam Hussein, according to senior officials in the Baghdad Government.

Some requests have been e-mailed to the office of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, from around the world. Mr. al-Maliki has also been directly petitioned by government officials who want to place the noose around Saddam?s neck.

Many ordinary Justice Ministry employees are too terrified to carry out an execution, fearing reprisals from the dead man?s family. Those who do volunteer to act as the executioner may well have lost a relative to violence in the post-Saddam era or had a relative killed by Saddam?s regime.
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It's about time. This should break the back of any remaining baathist loyalists. Probably won't affect the Iranians and Syrians interference, but the many raped and oppressed during his dictatorship will get some deserved justice.
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UPDATE: Saddam handed over to Iraqi officials.

The U.S. has turned over custody of the mass murderer to Iraqi officials, one of the last steps necessary before the execution, Saddam's chief lawyer told FOX News.
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Originally posted by: shira
Let's get every vertebrae-cracking, leg-twitching moment on prime-time commercial television. With an introduction by George W. Bush explaining to us how this execution will make the world a better place.
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Make it pay per view, so we can recoup some of the cost of the war.
 
If there is anybody on the face of the planet who deserves execution it is Saddam.

He was directly responsible for the deaths of over a million people. Either in the war he started with Iran or the mass killings of his own people.

And I?ll disagree with the people who say his death serves no purpose. Him hanging will remind every other wanabe dictator that they too could be held responsible for their crimes. Unfortunately, the majority of world dictators do not face consequences for their actions. Instead the live in exile and die of old age. Pinochet, Milosevic, Baby Doc Duvalier, Marcos and others are the best examples of this happening.
 
Weak and cowardly governments always make it a point to liquidate their enemies, and do so that their nenablers will be appeased.

Why will this puppet government dispose od Saddam? - because they think that the US wants it that way.

It's irrelevant to the betterment of the New! Improved! Iraqi Government, now with 18% more whitening agents -
but those who we installed to the Power of the Puppet will do as they believe the government that palced them there wishes.

Grab hold of your ankles, all hell is about to break loose.

You really want to punish the son-on-a-bitch? . . . Give him back that godforsaken mess we made and let him settle it out.
 
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
If there is anybody on the face of the planet who deserves execution it is Saddam.

He was directly responsible for the deaths of over a million people. Either in the war he started with Iran or the mass killings of his own people.

And I?ll disagree with the people who say his death serves no purpose. Him hanging will remind every other wanabe dictator that they too could be held responsible for their crimes. Unfortunately, the majority of world dictators do not face consequences for their actions. Instead the live in exile and die of old age. Pinochet, Milosevic, Baby Doc Duvalier, Marcos and others are the best examples of this happening.
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The hangings at Nuremberg didn't deter Saddam.
 
Originally posted by: judasmachine
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
If there is anybody on the face of the planet who deserves execution it is Saddam.

He was directly responsible for the deaths of over a million people. Either in the war he started with Iran or the mass killings of his own people.

And I?ll disagree with the people who say his death serves no purpose. Him hanging will remind every other wanabe dictator that they too could be held responsible for their crimes. Unfortunately, the majority of world dictators do not face consequences for their actions. Instead the live in exile and die of old age. Pinochet, Milosevic, Baby Doc Duvalier, Marcos and others are the best examples of this happening.
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The hangings at Nuremberg didn't deter Saddam.
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No one said the hangings would deter anyone.

 
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