Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:22:00
Now I laugh and pull so hard - see you swinging from the gallows pole
To be hung from the neck until dead, dead, dead. And no, he won’t be dying three times. /punch&judy
An Iraqi special tribunal today convicted Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity for the brutal repression of a Shiite town in the 1980s and sentenced him to death by hanging.
As the verdict was read, Mr. Hussein shouted, “Long live the people! Long live the Arab nation! Down with the spies!” He then chanted “God is great” several times. The chief judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, tried to calm Mr. Hussein down. “There’s no point,” he said.
The five-judge panel, which heard more than nine months of testimony in the case, also issued death sentences for two of Mr. Hussein’s seven co-defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Mr. Hussein’s half-brother, who was head of Iraq&#xu2;019s domestic intelligence agency; and Awad al-Bandar, president of Mr. Hussein’s revolutionary court.
In spite of an intense security clampdown that barred vehicles and pedestrians from the street, public celebration broke out around Iraq. People danced and cheered on the street, sounded car horns and fired guns into the air, a standard gesture of celebration here.
At the same time, fighting broke out between gunmen and the Iraqi Army in the predominantly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Adhamiya in northeastern Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Angry demonstrations against the verdict erupted in Tikrit, Mr. Hussein’s birthplace and a bastion of support for the Sunni Arab-led insurgency.
Well, this is likely going to set off more sectarian violence, perhaps finally erupting into the full-blown civil war that has been brewing in Iraq over the last 18 months or so. I’m just a guy sitting comfortably in his plush American luxury and all that, but it seems to lend some creedence to the idea that the three main sects that make up Iraq will never get along unless they fear someone else more than they want to kill each other.
Still. Can’t be too sad for Saddam. I only wish that instead of death by hanging, they could lower him feet first into an industrial plastics shredder. Now that would be justice.
Posted by JimK at 07:22 AM on November 05, 2006
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#3 Posted by Harley W Daugherty 
on 11/05 at 11:02 PM -
its all on the wheel.... it all comes around.
#4 Posted by Christian on 11/05 at 11:49 PM -
Unfortunately I think you are right Jim. Its horrible to think that some people cannot be civilized enough not to kill each other without someone threatening to kill not only them, but their entire family. Unfortunately, Iraq is just the most recent example of this. What happened in Yugoslavia is an even better example. It wasn’t a third world, backwards country. This was a modern, civilized, European country that within a couple of years of the Communist government being overthrown had turned into a battleground. Without that “Hand of Doom” to keep them inline, they broke down into their tribal groupings, and started shooting each other.
#5 Posted by Drumwaster on 11/06 at 12:46 AM -
I think they ought to dump his body into the plastic shredder after they hang him, and dump the resulting slurry into a pig trough.
Allahu Ackbar, indeed.
#6 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 11/06 at 07:20 AM -
I think they ought to dump his body into the plastic shredder after they hang him, and dump the resulting slurry into a pig trough.
Nah. Stick it in plastic containers under high pressure, and launch it into insurgent strongholds in Tikrit.
While they’re running around screaming and covered in red paste, get on the loudspeaker and announce that since they love Saddam so much, we’ve given him back to them.
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I wish they could put a mic on his neck so they can record the sound it makes when it snaps.
I’d make that my e-mail sound.
I used to use the dean scream for whenever I got an e-mail.