# Saddam Gets Death **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2006, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170 "2006-11-05T09:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/1 "2006-11-05T09:10:29Z")
No links yet, but the BBC’s reporting that Saddam has been sentenced to death by hanging. IMHO, that’s too good for him. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/2 "2006-11-05T09:20:20Z")
[Linky.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6117910.stm) > [@](#): > > He was found guilty over his role in the killing of 148 people in the mainly Shia town of Dujail in 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/3 "2006-11-05T09:41:46Z")
Was there really any doubt that he’d be found guilty? ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/4 "2006-11-05T09:51:57Z")
Wonder if it’ll be a public exectution. Not sure how they do it these days. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/5 "2006-11-05T10:01:18Z")
Lucky fuck. A better fate would be something like a thousand flaming pineapples up his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/6 "2006-11-05T10:05:32Z")
[QUOTE=ParentalAdvisory] Wonder if it’ll be a public exectution. Not sure how they do it these days. [/QUOTE] That’s one I’d watch… > [@Reuters](#): > > A death sentence or life imprisonment generates an automatic appeal, delaying any execution by months at least. Saddam has said he wants to face a military firing squad, not the hangman. Whatever, dude. Too bad [Ogrish.com](http://Ogrish.com) is out of business… ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/7 "2006-11-05T10:17:58Z")
I read that it’ll be a hanging. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/8 "2006-11-05T10:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] A better fate would be something like a thousand flaming pineapples up his ass. [/QUOTE] Especially ones grown on trees. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/9 "2006-11-05T10:24:03Z")
Just in time for Bush to dust off his “Mission Accomplished” banner. ---
**Author:** ![Hootie\_McB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Hootie\_McB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hootie_McB)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/10 "2006-11-05T10:39:22Z")
[Longer article.](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/saddam-sentenced-to-death/2006/11/05/1162661540493.html) Sadly, it will never be retribution enough for the Saddam’s victims and their families. At the price for that token of justice… > [@](#): > > “They will see rivers of blood for years to come. It will dwarf Vietnam,” they quoted Saddam, 69, as saying. > … > “He laughed and said the Americans were paying heavily for their invasion which they thought would be picnic,” said Issam Ghazzawi, a Jordanian lawyer who also saw him on Saturday. Even the bastard is laughing at you, Mr. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/11 "2006-11-05T10:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=Hootie McB] Even the bastard is laughing at you, Mr. Bush. [/QUOTE] Care to clarify? Yes, we have paid heavily. Yes, the whole thing could/should have been avoided. Yes, Bush tends to destroy America’s and the Republican Party’s image. But who gives a fuck if the “bastard laughs”? He’s a dead man walking. We’ll see a new uprising for a few months, then, pretty much, **Bricker** ’s premonition will come true. Bush sucks, but Saddam sucked worse. Right? p.s. $5k says a Democrat takes the White House in '08. ---
**Author:** ![Hootie\_McB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Hootie\_McB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hootie_McB)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/12 "2006-11-05T11:15:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Care to clarify? > > Yes, we have paid heavily. Yes, the whole thing could/should have been avoided. Yes, Bush tends to destroy America’s and the Republican Party’s image. > > But who gives a fuck if the “bastard laughs”? He’s a dead man walking. > > We’ll see a new uprising for a few months, then, pretty much, Bricker’s premonition will come true. > > Bush sucks, but Saddam sucked worse. > > Right? No doubt, Saddam sucks like a black hole to Bush’s Hoover. I was just lamenting the poignancy of the situation, I guess. No one wins. Even with Saddam’s trial coming to a close, something that should be a bookend and high point in the ousting of a dictator, the daily lives of the Iraqis and the soldiers there continue to suck. And the fucker lived long enough to even laugh. Dead man walking or not, it still feels like salt on the wound. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/13 "2006-11-05T11:57:49Z")
[QUOTE=Hootie McB] Dead man walking or not, it still feels like salt on the wound. [/QUOTE] OK… I can feel your pain, brother. But really, in what scenario would he not be allowed to even laugh? I’d laugh too, if I was a deranged evil mass murderer, who had raped hundreds of women and killed thousands of political decedents. Fuck him. Don’t give him the time of day. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/14 "2006-11-05T12:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] …We’ll see a new uprising for a few months, then, pretty much, **Bricker** ’s premonition will come true. Bush sucks, but Saddam sucked worse. Right? p.s. $5k says a Democrat takes the White House in '08. [/QUOTE] What is **Bricker’s** premonition? As to Bush and Saddam – Bush has certainly been worse for Iraq than Saddam would have been. Bush _may_ even be worse for _America_ than Saddam was for Iraq, but that’s not something I’m sure of – yet. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/15 "2006-11-05T12:17:03Z")
I’m not sure… I can’t exactly put words in his mouth… He’s said enough, though I won’t ask him to defend me, and I can’t say I speak for him. But I’ll bet it’s some along the lines of “we’ll be better off later”. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/16 "2006-11-05T12:50:01Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] Care to clarify? Yes, we have paid heavily. [/quote] “We” have paid heavily?? No, ‘we’ haven’t. The _volunteer army_ has paid fairly heavily. But the people who got stuck with the full weight of the bill are the Iraqi people, caught in a violent chaos in what’s only technically a nation anymore. > [@](#): > > Yes, the whole thing could/should have been avoided. Yes, Bush tends to destroy America’s and the Republican Party’s image. And Iraq. Might seem like a small detail to us Americans, but it’s really a pretty big deal. But who gives a fuck if the “bastard laughs”? He’s a dead man walking. [/quote] Because he can see we’ve unleashed forces on Iraq that make him look like a small-timer. > [@](#): > > Bush sucks, but Saddam sucked worse. > > Right? Wrong. Saddam’s believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300-400,000 Iraqis over the three decades he was in power. We’ve gotten into that ballpark _in three and a half years_. I’m glad to see Saddam convicted, but at this point it’s a footnote. The men who should be on trial are those who are running our country. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/17 "2006-11-05T13:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] Wrong. Saddam’s believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300-400,000 Iraqis over the three decades he was in power. We’ve gotten into that ballpark _in three and a half years_. [/QUOTE] Saddam was responsible for the deaths of another half a million Iranians too. We still have a ways to go. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/18 "2006-11-05T13:48:35Z")
I’ve been watching CNN already this morning, and seems the only ones that are protesting are people from Tikrit. Seems like the rest of the country is elated at the news. If they’re happy, I’m happy. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/19 "2006-11-05T13:48:42Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Saddam was responsible for the deaths of another half a million Iranians too. We still have a ways to go. [/QUOTE] Tru dat. While I’m gonna give the Ayatollah Khomeini partial credit on that one, that hardly undermines your point. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170/20 "2006-11-05T14:32:22Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] …Saddam’s believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300-400,000 Iraqis over the three decades he was in power…I’m glad to see Saddam convicted, but at this point it’s a footnote. The men who should be on trial are those who are running our country. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=hajario] Saddam was responsible for the deaths of another half a million Iranians too. We still have a ways to go. [/QUOTE] How much of that blood is on [our](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War) hands? CMC fnord! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-gets-death/379170.md?page=2)