How many years from swinging would he still be if this was proceeding through the U.S. criminal courts?
How many years from swinging would he still be if this was proceeding through the U.S. criminal courts?
... at today's SWJ Daily News Links - includes a London Daily Telegraph video of Saddam's last moments on the gallows just prior to execution.
I've been waiting to see that for a very long time. Hell with any other context, consequences, blowback, or whining about judicial improprities - it gives me incredible emotional satisfaction to see him swing.
Last edited by Jedburgh; 12-31-2006 at 03:24 PM.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/bizarrebaza...mment-27102907
Read this, especially the part at the end....
Here is a link to the entire execution as reportedly taken by a cell phone video camera.
It is disappointing that the government's executioners chanted long live Al Sadr. I think the Iraqi government did a poor job managing this stage event, and the propaganda they gave the Sunni insurgents is invaluable to them.
I have said before that we cannot kill al-Sadr until we isolate him from Maliki, despite the fact that al-Sadr clearly needs to go. Now I wonder if it is even possible to isolate him. This execution seems to me to have tied them even closer together. I didn't think there could possibly be a downside to Saddam's execution but it appears that by using the Mahdi army to perform the execution, Maliki may have handed to Sunni insurgents a huge propaganda gift. There can be no doubt that Saddam's execution was justice but I cannot shake the feeling that to a Sunni, even one who was not a Ba'athist, this looks like vengeance and it looks like the Mahdi army is running things.
SFC W
I find it ironic that Saddam was convicted and executed for crimes against humanity as manifest in his execution of 152 Shi'ites after a failed assasination attempt in 1982. Question - which nation was doing everything possible to financially and militarily support Saddam, his continued hold on power, and his aggressive war against Iran (other Shi'ites) in 1982?
You can get a rope, just like the one used to execute Saddam, on eBay....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110073937696
Brilliant. I wish I'd thought of that. A replica rope. Current bid is $1,025.00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzE-...elated&search=
Edited by GV -- this is humor / satire
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