Hey punks, what about my appeal?!
Saddam ‘calm’ before Baghdad execution – Breaking News – World – Breaking News — Cripes. They wasted no time in doing a quickie execution. What happened to his appeal? Why didn’t we just shoot him when we first found him. This is fishy.
Saddam Hussein has been hanged for crimes against humanity, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before a US invasion toppled him.
“It was very quick. He died right away,” one of the official Iraqi witnesses told Reuters, saying the former president’s face was uncovered, he appeared calm and said a brief prayer as Iraqi policemen walked him to the gallows at dawn on Saturday and put the noose round him.
US President George W Bush, who branded Saddam a tyrant and a threat to global security even though alleged nuclear and other weapons were not found after the 2003 invasion, hailed the execution as a “milestone” on Iraq’s path to democracy…
The official would not say where the execution took place but said it was not in the fortified Green Zone compound.
Another said it was at a facility known to Americans as “Camp Justice” – a former base for Saddam’s feared security services and now used regularly for executions by Iraqi’s courts.
National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told state television Saddam seemed to him “a broken man” on the gallows.
He and other officials denied a statement read out earlier on state television that said Saddam’s half-brother and a former judge were also hanged.
There goes the Pay-per-view idea.
Saddam was a pig. He was a vile, evil man who deserved to die. I’m not disputing that at all. I honestly believe the world is minutely a better place this morning with this idiot dead.
But having said that, we all know that “trial” was a sham. I mean, come on. They kick out his lawyers, they switch judges around….John is right, they should have just shot him when they found him. Then Bush says in a statement that Saddam received a fair trial, that just made me laugh. Of course it wasn’t a fair trial. Of course there was only going to be one outcome. But why even put all that facade up? This whole past year anyone with half a brain could see it was all just a kangaroo court going though the motions with the inevitable outcome.
Saddam got what he deserved, but please, don’t try to sugarcoat it in any way by saying he got a fair trial.
The appeal was overruled and the verdict was updheld.
See http://tinyurl.com/so457.
It was quickly done due to Security concerns,though who really knows whether he is dead or not is anyones guess. Even though i dont agree with a pay per view death sentence, I think that we should be able to see his dead body, for proof. Good Riddance.
I’m against the death penalty under any circumstance — independent of how evil is the criminal.
Like most people, I feel revulsion for this bastard but I believe the death penalty debases all of society.
I can understand when a cop kills someone in a shoot-out, if s/he has no other options.
But cold-blooded, pre-meditated killing? That’s not for civilized societies.
I agree with Gregg – the death penalty is a sign of an uncivilised society. In the case of Saddam, the only outcome will be all-out civil war in Iraq.
#3 must be a Canadian – my exact sentiments. If you’re not Canadian, then you are at heart.
How many secrets died with him?
Families that suffered under his regime could have been given the chance of a face-to-face encounter with him over the years. Nothing like facing up to your agressor personally for healing that deep wound.
Probably the best torture for him, to see that another human that shares a very close & common ancestor, but just slightly different Koran interprentation, was put to death or his family.
When he decimated entire villages, they were just numbers.
He appealed, the Appellate court, said “Sorry conviction and sentence stands” Iraq law says, after that one must be killed within 30 days.
Thus he was killed before his other trial was finished.
It is a sad day, for we as humanity have shown our disregard for human life. Now one person is dead, another person(s) and a nation has committed murder. Many others have assisted in that murder.
Yes he was a terrible man who did terrible things, but his sentence was to have others do or assist in doing a terrible act? How is that justice?
We as humanity must find a better way to deal with those who harm others, than to respond in kind. We need to find ways of bringing justice that does not involve the formation of further injustice.
If we say murdering is wrong, then we must find a way to deal with the murder without doing that which we say is wrong. Until we do, we are in a sorry state.
He was dead when the invasion plans were drafted.
Saddam had a lot of doubles; maybe they made a deal. Hang a lookalike, then exile Saddam on Elba or somewhere with his seventy virgins. DNA identification of Saddam’s corpse? It ain’t gonna happen.
Just because the Iraqi criminal courts are more efficient than ours is no reason to get pissy.
I expect to see a number of threads/discussions/reports along the lines of “this is fishy”… and without any proof I’ll view them as nothing more than conjecture by those with nothing more important to say.
He’s dead. Rejoyce. Maybe we can get back to the business of training the 80% who don’t see things his way in Iraq so we can get the hell out.
yes, good riddance.
They’ll be selling pieces of the rope on eBay soon.
All we’re witnessing here is the most expensive assassination in the history of world politics. Add up the deaths of Iraqis and Americans, the cost of those deaths — and it would take many centuries of oil profits to begin to compensate the ethical microbes who invoked this policy in the first place.
Not that they care.
How many secrets died with him?
I’m sure Russia, France and Kofi Annan are sleeping soundly today. Their connection to this animal will never come to light.
#13 – So you’re saying you support the immediate assassination of Raul Castro?
(I do.)
Appeals are to insure that we don’t hang an innocent man. Is there any question about that here?
#15. Mmm, what about the leaders of Saudi Arabia, China, Egypt, etc?
and it is interesting that even the guys who executed the US’s big enemy are themselves anti-American:
“As a noose was tightened around Hussein’s neck, one of the executioners yelled “long live Muqtada al-Sadr,” Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.”
http://tinyurl.com/unonx
mission accomplished.
Move over American Idol, lynching is back in full swing! I hope we take the rest of these people out this way. A new brand new episode every week!
#14: I would add the US to that list as they covertly (and not so covertly) supported Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war. A lot of countries have blood on their hands.
What happened to his appeal?
The appeal died.
#14
You forgot the U.S.A., Great Britain and Germany.
14 & 21 the difference is France, Russia and Annan were against the invasion based solely on their secret business deals with Saddam. Saddam could kill all he wanted as long a he keep buying weapons from France and Russia and line Annan’s pockets with oil for food money. As far as I know the US deal with Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war was no secret and was your classic the enemy or my enemy is my friend. It was a political partnership for the goal of defeating Iran, not economic as was the case with the UN, France and Russia.
When they said “Saddam is hung,” I thought they meant he had a large penis.
My bad.
#22, gq
14 & 21 the difference is France, Russia and Annan were against the invasion based solely on their secret business deals with Saddam.
Most of the world was against the invasion. It was morally reprehensible, a set-up, and the UN Inspectors had to be removed before their investigation was done.
As far as I know the US deal with Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war was no secret and was your classic the enemy or my enemy is my friend.
That doesn’t excuse the supply of chemical weapons and other munitions to Iraq by the US. The very same weapons that Bush jr decided was an excuse to invade. Also, the US took the international community route of being “official neutral”.
gq, try getting your history from someplace other then Bum Rush Limburger or Bull Shit O’Really.
One down.
So when’s George W’s execution coming up?
That doesn’t excuse the supply of chemical weapons and other munitions to Iraq by the US.
Correct, but my point was the US did it for political reasons, while France and Russia will sell any weapon to anyone for the right price.
#26 – give him a medal? This execution was pre-determined ever since the US invaded.
#4 mentioned that executions are an indicator of an unstable or uncivilized society. Which is truely uncivilized – locking up somebody at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer per year (for several years while a corrupt judicial system decides their fate), or killing them outright?
its a sign of a a civilized society to not kill a criminal, but it is a sign of a civilized society to abort a human child because he might not have a great life or they might be an inconvenience to the mother
GO FIGURE ????
The same dopes that are anti death penalty are the dopes that are pro abortion, it is not logical captain
I think it’s interesting that we can invade a sovereign nation (they were a sovereign nation, right?) based on the supposed fact that they had weapons and they wanted to somehow use the weapons against us (proving we are minimally jumpy and probably out-and-out paranoid to say the least) then find the leader and kill him and his sons along with hundreds of thousands of civilians who we said we were saving. None of this is good, but what’s even weirder is that leaders of other nations and boneheads like Hugo Chavez continue to taunt us. I just don’t see what they hope to get from it. I always thought it was a bit much when we went down to Panama and simply grabbed Manny Noriega and threw him into one of our prisons. That was years ago and now this. Where is Noriega now?
If this is our justification for this enourmous loss of blood and treasure, then I ask; why not send in two brave members of our special forces with a 50 cal rifle? After all, Saddam was hardly one to hide during a good parade, and the two bullet solution would have been far cheaper, and more effective.
For the same reason we are going to bomb Iran rather than drop rifles and radios on them and instigate a rebellion; blood can be turned, as if by alchemy, into treasure, and a lot of people are making billions of dollars off of this bloody conflagration. Cheap and effective is ruled out, because it is cheap. So sad, that the human race will probably go extinct just so that a few can drive shiny red sports cars and pretend that their bank account makes them important and powerful.
#27 …France and Russia will sell any weapon to anyone for the right price.
The U.S.A. doesn’t have a clean sheet when it comes to selling weapons. Let’s face it… few nations who sell arms on the global market care for making sure that the buyer follows all aspects of international laws and conventions before signing the deals.