"Arab TV Says Saddam Has Been Executed" Topic

Arab TV Says Saddam Has Been Executed!

AP
10:11 p.m. EDT Update: U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. local time on Saturday.

"Sic semper tyrannus".

That's the truth!

Aw, gee. That's too bad. Such a nice guy.

It was filmed, how long before the video is on youtube?

Pay per-veiw?

That's interesting news, unfortunately you violated the AP's copyright notice when you posted it here. Unless of course you obtained their permission…

Well NewsWeek has a special on the Rise and Fall of Saddam..Pretty dumb title for a guy who just got hanged;; but then again perhaps its apt.

There is still a flicker of justice left in the world.
I hope those he raped, Torcherd and mutilated my find closure.
Maybe now the people of Iraq will be free.

Odd, I didn't read down that far in the story, but you're right. I guess this thread should be nuked or a link should replace the story.

Yes, just heard that on CBC radio…..and he owed me money….

He is now with Satan……in bed maybe? (South Park reference…)

My uncle worked as an air conditioning electrician in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. He spoke to Saddam a couple of times in a bar in the ex-pats compound he lived on. An hour before Saddam's arrival the place would be locked down for security. He just asked my uncle if he liked Iraq and the usual small talk.

On another occasion, not when Saddam was present, one of the bar staff said 'Saddam won't win' in relation to the Iran-Iraq war. He disappeared. No lawyers, no court, no trial.

Well NewsWeek has a special on the Rise and Fall of Saddam..

As in "up the long ladder and down the short rope"?

A waste of good rope.

Iraqis in Dearborn, MI,USA are celebrating.

Are they celebrating for or against the execution? The news announcer on CNN said they were for the execution, but I saw that the crowd of Iraqis in Dearborn, MI were flying USA flags upside down.

The world is a slightly better place for him leaving it.

Good riddance.

I hate to see anyone die. But…

I'd rather see them catch Osama…

can we get the video on YouTube yet?

I would pay good money for the dvd.

Anyway, one down, a few more to go.

CC

I'm not a great fan of capital punishment, but in this case I gladly make an exception.

Do we really know what information has been given us is really true?

Good, he ruined my birthday back in 1990.

This ending to the show is not worth the time, money, and is certainly not worth the lives and limbs lost during its production.

When Caesar executed Vercingetorix he symbolically showed that Rome (and he himself) was now in control of Gaul.

Saddam is no hero like Vercingetorix, he hid in a hole like a rat, I get no satisfaction out of hanging him, but it is the necessary thing to do… like exterminating vermin.

Executing Saddam has no symbolic meaning anymore other than to rid the world of very bad man who should never have risen to power in the first place.

We who are all involved should remember that what we create we sometimes have to pay for. We've paid altogether too high a price for the mess we created in Saddam Hussein, at least now we can move on to figuring out how to straighten out the other messes.

I can at least take solace that his sons Nero and Caligula are dead too, and they did not inherit the presidency like the neighbor countries have allowed.

JeffJ

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC, (Ret.) Remarks at CDI Board of Directors Dinner, May 12, 2004:

So to say containment didn't work, I think is not only wrong from the experiences we had then, but the proof is in the pudding, in what kind of military our troops faced when we went in there. It disintegrated in front of us. It didn't have the capabilities, that were pumped up, that were supposedly possessed by this military. And I think that will be the first mistake that will be recorded in history, the belief that containment as a policy doesn't work. It certainly worked against the Soviet Union, has worked with North Korea and others. It's not a pleasant thing to have to administer, it requires troops full-time, there are moments when there … there are periods of violence, but containment is a lot cheaper than the alternative, as we're finding out now. So I think that will be mistake number one: discounting the effectiveness of the containment….

On the bad side, I see an insurgency that is about in its mid-life. You know what happens, this is a classic Maoist insurgency. It's not uniquely Islamist, it's classically Maoist. You begin by disabling the infrastructure; frightening the people; attacking the outside interveners; attacking those that cooperate with them. Show them that the local authorities are ineffective. You do this by a series of violent acts, terrorist activities. We saw this in Vietnam. You saw it in classic insurgencies…

When I was in Vietnam, my first tour of duty, I was an advisor with the Vietnamese Marines. So, I went to Vietnamese language school. And, I lived, I wore the uniform of the Vietnamese Marines and we lived in the villages. They had a quartering act. And I remember one time I was in the house of a family in northern part of South Vietnam and after dinner, the mother of the house said, "Do you have any pictures of your family?" And I showed them to her in her house. And she said, "Why are you here?"

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they should have send in a hit team 10 years ago and just killed him and saved a lot of pain and death for the whole world.

At last… what the war was all about!

>they should have send in a hit team 10 years ago and just
>killed him and saved a lot of pain and death for the whole
>world.

If it was possible it would have been done. But its very difficult to kill these despots. Look at the number of assination attempts on Castro.

There will be a lot of evil people putting on a welcome party in hell tonight.

"I would pay good money for the dvd."

Really? Did you think about that before you typed it?

Happy New Year!

can at least take solace that his sons Nero and Caligula are dead too, and they did not inherit the presidency like the neighbor countries have allowed.

JeffJ

Sorry here Jeff I can not resist:

On the topic, …
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Seems so anti-climatic. Yawn.

I'm glad my father lived to see this. The Baathists murdered part of his family, and sent another part scurrying to safety in half a dozen other countries.

I wish we didn't have to destroy Iraq, though, to have killed this one man. The civil war has claimed nearly as many lives in 4 years as Saddam claimed in 25. I would love to go with my father to Baghdad to visit the grave of my grandfather – if it still exists, if any of our relatives still exist. (I found out from my cousin last week that two other cousins managed to escape this year and are currently refugees in Jordan.) But I doubt very much that my father will live long enough to see an Iraq that is safe enough to visit.

Anyone know whatever happened to the four or five lookalike doubles Saddam Hussein supposedly had?

Just a reminder that this is the Obituaries board – discussions of politics should adjourn to the Current Affairs board.

There is a video link on the Drudge Report, for anyone so inclined.

Quester wrote:
"they should have send in a hit team 10 years ago and just killed him and saved a lot of pain and death for the whole world."

Agreed.

"Anyone know whatever happened to the four or five lookalike doubles Saddam Hussein supposedly had?"

I expect to see them waiting tables at a felafel joint soon.

"Anyone know whatever happened to the four or five lookalike doubles Saddam Hussein supposedly had?"

I heard they were putting the finishing touches on their comedy act, "Will The Real Saddam Please Sit Down"… before taking it on the road

"they should have send in a hit team 10 years ago and just killed him and saved a lot of pain and death for the whole world."

Maybe if the West hadn't put him in power it would have helped as well. I hope we have learnt our lesson, but I fear not.

Lol, I agree again.

"New World Disorder"

"Anyone know whatever happened to the four or five lookalike doubles Saddam Hussein supposedly had?"

Maybe they hanged them all. You know, just to make sure they got the right one. :)

Hanging was too good for him, He should have been gassed like all those Kurds he had murdered.

Just saw a program about the diamond wars in Africa. I note that former Liberian President Charles Taylor is in custody at the Hague. Perhaps we can get him a change of venue to Iraq. That's someone who should do the rope dance.

While no fan of Ms Hussein or his actions I am afraid I do not how we destroy evil by becoming evil, we gave him far too of an easy way out.

I read Barzan's obit this morning. Good to see that he too was a classic, old-style tin-pot nutter.