# Saddam execution video on TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 30, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051 "2006-12-30T00:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/61 "2006-12-30T23:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] For those interested the full video seems to be up on google video(well until it’s taken down that is. Top link on Digg. [/QUOTE] The that looks like a cell phone cam took it? I’d sure like an English translation of what was said. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/62 "2006-12-30T23:09:55Z")
[QUOTE=Unregistered Bull] The that looks like a cell phone cam took it? I’d sure like an English translation of what was said. [/QUOTE] Or the cameraman studied under Helen Keller and Ray Charles. Here’s the link: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/63 "2006-12-30T23:14:36Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Or the cameraman studied under Helen Keller and Ray Charles. [/QUOTE] And Michael J. Fox. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/64 "2006-12-30T23:14:42Z")
If you’re talking about what the man himself said then it was > [@](#): > > God is great. The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab. _The nation_ being that of Islam not Iraq as per all talking heads I’ve listened to. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/65 "2006-12-30T23:54:53Z")
[CNN is reporting his last, final words were “Muqtada al-Sadr”:](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/30/hussein.funeral/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) > [@](#): > > 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. > > Hussein, a Sunni, uttered one last phrase before he died, saying “Muqtada al-Sadr” in a mocking tone, according to Haddad’s account. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/66 "2006-12-31T00:23:00Z")
[This](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8421680920241912176&q=saddam+execution) Google video made me laugh. It seems to be saying something about the “liberal media” by showing what ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX _News_ were showing at the time of the execution. None of the major networks broke coverage for the announcement, but Fox News, seeing as how it is a 24-hour “news” network, did. In the eyes of whomever made this asinine video, that is proof of a liberal bias in the media. Note, of course, that the video does _not_ provide any information on what the regular (non-news) Fox network was showing at the time. Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/67 "2006-12-31T00:29:20Z")
Comment from **Tuckerfan** ’s link: > [@](#): > > Now hang Hillary, Bill Clinton and the rest of Al-Queda Democrat Alliance. > posted 38 minutes ago by Mark :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/68 "2006-12-31T02:02:59Z")
Sounded to me like his last words were: _ **"Derka derka derka jihad jihad burnous falafel…"** _ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/69 "2006-12-31T02:31:23Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] I’ve seen a YouTube version already, that cut away before the drop. I’d watch it in its entirety (but would be prepared to be disturbed by it). I don’t think it’s right to show it on TV, nor would I let my son within a bull’s roar of it. [/QUOTE] ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j-uN43xh74g/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/j-uN43xh74g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque This is the leadup to the drop. It shows him being walked to the trapdoor, the noose is placed over his head. I think this is from the “official” hanging video. It does not show the drop or him swinging after. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/70 "2006-12-31T02:47:56Z")
This may be the same video mentioned a few posts above. It shows him dropping, then it’s dark, then it shows him swinging (a close up view). [Here is the link](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/12/saddam-full-execution.html). You were warned. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/71 "2006-12-31T02:59:11Z")
I just watched it. I don’t really feel any sympathy for the man but that is one hell of a way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/72 "2006-12-31T03:06:59Z")
1. It looked like they may have dropped him before he finished saying whatever it was he was saying. 2. After the drop, were his eyes still open? 3. How true is it that a hanging victim shits himself? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/73 "2006-12-31T03:39:48Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] 2. After the drop, were his eyes still open? [/quote] At least one of the news stories I read says yes. > [@](#): > > 1. How true is it that a hanging victim shits himself? I think that happens to everyone when they die. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/74 "2006-12-31T03:57:15Z")
. . . How true is it that a hanging victim shits himself? [QUOTE=Marley23] I think that happens to everyone when they die. [/QUOTE] No. It _can_ happen, and often does, but by no means is it a given. That being said, for deaths resulting from lack of oxygen such as hanging, two things tend to occur: 1. Sphincters relax (i.e. _if_ there’s shit near the asshole, it may come up spontaneously) 2. The person “strains” - in other words, a person’s all-out effort to breath (especially when they can’t because of mechanical reasons such as hanging) causes them to ‘squeeze’ just as if they’re taking a normal dump. Together, #1 and #2 make most hanging victims shit themselves. P.S. They often get a hard-on, too. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/75 "2006-12-31T04:10:38Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] [CNN is reporting his last, final words were “Muqtada al-Sadr”:](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/30/hussein.funeral/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) [/QUOTE] According to [this site (Toronto Star)](http://www.thestar.com/News/article/166535) and article, his last word was actually Muhammed. In particular, > [@](#): > > Saddam began reciting the Shahada, a Muslim prayer that says there is no god but God and Muhammed is his prophet. Saddam made it midway through his second recitation of the verse. His last word was Muhammed. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/76 "2006-12-31T04:15:31Z")
How many versions of his last words are out there now? “Palestine is Arab,” “Muqtada,” “Muhamad,” something about the Persians and American spies… somehow it makes me think of the Spanish Inquisition sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/77 "2006-12-31T04:25:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Saddam began reciting the Shahada, a Muslim prayer that says there is no god but God and Muhammed is his prophet. Saddam made it midway through his second recitation of the verse. His last word was Muhammed. So they did drop him before he finished. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/78 "2006-12-31T04:33:44Z")
[QUOTE=KarlGauss] P.S. They often get a hard-on, too. [/QUOTE] Even the girls? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/79 "2006-12-31T04:50:30Z")
[QUOTE=KarlGauss] That being said, for deaths resulting from lack of oxygen such as hanging, [/QUOTE] I thought they died from a broken neck. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051/80 "2006-12-31T04:50:35Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] Even the girls? :eek: [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, and it takes their breath away! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-execution-video-on-tv/386051.md?page=5)