Hussein Execution Imminent?

**SWCAdmin** · 12-30-2006

How many years from swinging would he still be if this was proceeding through the U.S. criminal courts?

**SWJED** · 12-30-2006

... 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.

**Jedburgh** · 12-31-2006

Originally Posted by SWJED

... 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.

**RTK** · 12-31-2006

http://blogs.abcnews.com/bizarrebaza...mment-27102907

Read this, especially the part at the end....

**SWJED** · 12-31-2006

Here is a link to the entire execution as reportedly taken by a cell phone video camera.

**Bill Moore** · 12-31-2006

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.

**Uboat509** · 12-31-2006

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

**pcmfr** · 12-30-2006

Originally Posted by Grand Vizier

How many years from swinging would he still be if this was proceeding through the U.S. criminal courts?

Or worse yet, the Hague?

**Strickland** · 12-30-2006

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?

**SWJED** · 12-30-2006

Originally Posted by Strickland

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?

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

--Robert A. Heinlein

**RTK** · 12-30-2006

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