Posted on 12/26/2006 7:01:04 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
Saddam Hussein could be hanged within days after the rejection of his appeal by Iraq's highest court yesterday.
The former Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death in November over the killing of 148 Shia Muslims from the town of Dujail in 1982. He is facing another trial accused of genocide against the Kurds - but that may now never be completed.
The death sentence from the first trial must be implemented within 30 days, the chief judge, Aref Shahin, said yesterday, hinting that it could come even sooner: "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation."
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a member of the Shia majority persecuted under Saddam's Sunni-minority rule, has already said he wants the execution to take place before the end of the year.
One option would be to do it without prior announcement in an attempt to forestall possible protests - though some Shia elements have called for the hanging to be televised. Saddam, 69, is in the custody of US forces, so Washington could also have a say in the timing....."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Never happen in the states on tv.COMING SOON TO YOU TUBE
Yea, but he IS in the custody of US forces. Congressfolks but in on stuff like this, and make us wimp out.
:-(
My popcorn is ready.
Well, nothing wrong with the broadcast. Hopefully al Jazeera would carry it far and wide in that dunghill of ME. Indeed, nothing wrong with the hanging taking place in public - say, in Halabja.
....sooner, rather than later, bump.
Ya thats it! Let the SOB stew wondering when its gonna happen. I say let him stew for quite a while and when the bastard feels nice and comfy, haul his ass out and send him to dance on the end of the rope.
Time for a party.....!
You Tube will definitely have this video. If not, someone on the net will have it.
BTW...this WILL have a definite positive effect in Iraq!
The Soviet people were still terrified of Stalin for 10 years after he was dead! that is how strong brutal dictators are. And many Iraquis have been afraid that Sadamm could have come back to power.
If they do what they are saying he can't stew for long. It's
30 days tops.
Yes, but nobody said it had to be live TV. They could tape it and run it later. They wouldn't even have to say it was taped.
LOL.
I hope some enterprising wiz is able to make an animated picture of Saddam swinging on the rope.
Thinking of Saddam doing the Texas Rope Dance along with all his buds for some reason brings to mind that scene from "BLAZING SADDLES" and the Hangman. 8^)
Still, there would be something simply marvelous about dropping the ball on Times Square and the trap door on Saddam simultaneously . . . just before the new congress takes over.
Rather see the actual thing via the Internet (will never be on TV). That way I can enjoy his “crying, screaming and fighting protests, all the way to death. And I would be willing to bet that he will go to his death as a crying wimp, fighting all the way.
LOL!!! Great!
It will be a positive heartwarming moment for many, many good Iraquis!
It will be the first execution on YouTube!!!
As far as I’m concerned, there is only one question that ought to matter with regard to Saddam’s fate: will executing him advance our efforts to establish a stable Iraq?
IMO, the answer is “we don’t know” – another example of something that’s all too common in Iraq – something happening as a result of a process put in motion without much consideration of its ultimate effect.
Then only thing we know for sure is that hanging Saddam sets the precedent: in a place where all of the groups and most of the leaders contending for power have blood on their hands, whichever faction is in power in Baghdad at the moment get to hang members of the others.
Why? Who wants to see a cartoon?
Not a cartoon... I want something like those pictures that are still photos edited to simulate motion... i.e. an animated gif.
This isn't an either or situation. I want to see both. The small animated gif is for emailing to liberals.
No argument from me!
Will intervening in local justice proceedings advance the effort to establish a stable Iraq?
Bit late to start worrying about that.
Saddam will look good with a hemp necktie.
I fully expect San Francisco's 9th Circus to come riding in and save Saddam's butt by declaring that hanging him is "unconstitutional." Then we'll have to wait to find out if Breyer wants to go with "international law" or use one of the secret messages encoded in the wording of the U.S. Constitution.
Well, I guess my 16 year old boy would be amused at that.
How so? Did we try him or was he tried under local law?
What?....He doesn't get his 20 years on death row? What a travesty. /sarcasm
It will.
There is nothing like a hanging to focus ones attention on reality.
30 minutes would be better. 30 seconds would be superb.
Good post potlatch!
He's hangin' in there!
Yep, and seems to be enjoying it too!
Good one!
Not this time. Those "US Forces" are under the command of a Cowboy, or the so the liberals say. Cowboys believe in hemp justice. He's also in the enviable position of not having to give a Flying Fig what the CongressCritters think of how he carries out his CinC duties, being a lame duck and all.
Lol, thank you.
If you don't know that simple fact, you probably shouldn't be putting up an opinion.
FYI, he was tried in a Iraqi court, with an Iraqi Judge, and an Iraqi "jury". We just served as the jailers, due to security concerns.
He'll swing on a Iraqi gallows, with an Iraqi hangman, and with whatever style of noose they prefer in Iraq.
In the Old Days, he'd be beheaded, using a heavy broad ax or scimitar, so as to do the deed with a single stroke.
Of course Saddam and his sons preferred an industrial shredder or a chipper.
I'm not holding my breath, the execution still has to be approved by the leadership, and Talibani is opposed to it. Maybe some time in the spring....
The ratings would outdo the super bowl....
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Do you suppose that the current Iraqi "government" would last 48 hours if the US left tomorrow? This government is a fiction of US construction and is completely dependent on the US presences for it's day to day continuation.
The Iraqis know this and the rest of the world understands this. Only the US and the UK - for lack of apparent better options - find it convenient to pretend otherwise.
This does not mean that such a government always does what the US wishes, especially as this one is composed of literally warring factions each of which wants different and sometimes mutually contradictory things.
It does however mean that whatever it does is seen in Iraq and elsewhere as being done in our name.
Now, if homicidally corrupt behavior is just cause for hanging, Saddam deserves to hang - along with the sitting and former national leadership of few dozen members of the "international community" including some of the high ranking leaders of every group in the current Iraqi government.
And while I might feel that there is a sort of "justice" involved when the "New Boss" hangs the old one, I do not think that in a place like Iraq it's a good idea to encourage the operation of "Victors Justice" when it will be seem largely as a matter of internecine tribal and sectarian warfare.
And what appears to me to be happening in this case is what has been happening throughout or efforts since the start of the Occupation: some process is set in motion without bothering to think it through to it's ultimate consequences, as for example in this case when what happens to Saddam is not (as it should be) a questions of what is best for our ultimate strategic goals (a stable Iraq), but rather a tactical consideration of abiding by the "rules" of a completely artificial process which is understood by everyone involved to be in large part an act of selective justice by one group of murderous thugs against another.
I don't see any reason to televise it. Is there?
Better idea, throw him and a pig into a chipper together.
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