Saddam Verdict...DEATH BY HANGING! Live Thread

Reuters ^

[silentknight]

Iraq urges calm ahead of Saddam verdict

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister on Saturday urged his countrymen to accept the impending verdict against Saddam Hussein without violence, then in the next breath declared the former dictator must get "what he deserves" with the decision that could send him to the gallows.

[aragona]

Hi everybody - I just woke up to use the bathroom. Any news when the verdict will handed down? I am realy sleepy.
Sty up or back to bed is the quesion.

[ThomasThomas]

I like to made lasagna with the left over turkey some years.

[onyx]

LOL -- it is already tomorrow -- but I get your point. We'll all be dragging if we stay up. Saddam can talk for as long as he wants. I hope he says NOTHING.

[operation clinton cleanup]

BTW, I looked at the thermometer on the way back in and it's -10. I do believe winter is coming.

Geez... no frost on the pumpkins where you are, they must be frozen solid.

[onyx]

LOL -- who?

[REDWOOD99]

Sometime soon.

[HAL9000]

AFP via translation -

ALARM - Verdict of the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein: opening of the audience

BAGHDAD - the audience of the High Iraqi penal court which must return its verdict in the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein for the execution of 148 villagers Shiites in years 1980 is opened Sunday with 11H25 (08H25 GMT) in the strengthened sector of the green zone.

[peggybac]

They need someone standing near a window and writing the verdicts down then flashing them for reporters to see, ala OJ Simpson's civil trial. LOL

[onyx]

That sounds pretty good to me.

[Chena]

Geez... no frost on the pumpkins where you are, they must be frozen solid.

That's for sure. I carved two pumpkins this year and I always put them outside the living room window right away. They will stay perfect, and frozen, until spring. LOL

[onyx]

LOL-LOL-LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[STARWISE]

I usually get one pkg of the cornbread and one of the seasoned .. Pepperidge Farm or the like. I'm a free-spirited cook .. LOL.

[null and void]

Stay up, I guess...

[Diogenesis]

[Allegra]

You're kidding! He didn't get arrested and put on trial? How did he avoid it, that cookie crumble?

No. The poor guy actually turned himself in to the U.S. military in April '03. They questioned him and then released him saying he wasn't wanted for anything. What an ego blow, huh?

He was only reporting what Saddam told him to report. And he was highly entertaining. We still laugh about some of the stuff he denied while it happened right behind him on camera.

You can't write comedy like that. LOL

[Sally'sConcerns]

Wait a minute?!? Pepita's come in a shell? I thought the whole problem with them is how labor intensive they are because you have to go through all the pumpkin goo and separate them out, then they're roasted/toasted.

[REDWOOD99]

When that town in WV had that chemical plant explosion a couple of weeks ago, the lady who does the weather reports was anchoring the coverage. Can't remember her name.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Saddam can talk for as long as he wants. I hope he says NOTHING.

Not bloody likely! He will rant for several hours.

[Allegra]

Saddam will get up and say he is stupid, that's how he ended up in Iraq.

ROFL!

That's "STUCK" in Iraq.

[onyx]

Oh right --- yes, I don't know her name either.