# Saddam To be executed? brace Yourself! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630 "2006-12-26T17:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/41 "2006-12-30T00:42:49Z")
Looks like it’s going to be [tonight](http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/29/D8MAP4P80.html). ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/42 "2006-12-30T00:45:54Z")
Looks like Saddam has seen his last sunrise. They’re saying he’s going to hang by 6 a.m. Baghdad time – 10 p.m. Eastern Time. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/43 "2006-12-30T00:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=Moonchild] Somebody wrote an e-mail to my favorite sportswriter (Bill Simmons, [espn.com](http://espn.com)) suggesting that instead of executing Hussein, put him in a cell and charge a nominal fee ($25 or foreign equivalent) for a viewing. So not only does it provide the opportunity to, publicly humiliate the once proud dictator (i.e. actual punishment) it makes it financially worthwhile to keep him around. And really, who would pass at the chance to see Saddam lounging around in his boxers? [/QUOTE] There’s _got_ to be the pilot for a reality show in here, somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/44 "2006-12-30T00:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] How about his cohorts? He’s not the only one going down, is he? [/QUOTE] As mentioned [earlier](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6118302.stm), the former Cheif Judge of the Revolutionary court and one of his half-brothers are sentenced to death. Another to life, many to 15 years and one acquitted due to lack of evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/45 "2006-12-30T01:15:16Z")
Pim was the guy I was thinking of. Thanks. C’mon, Saddam, give in to the Dark Side. Let the world know you are a true coward. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/46 "2006-12-30T03:08:35Z")
…and BBC calls it as done. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630/47 "2006-12-30T11:39:21Z")
[The brutal dictator is dead](http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/30/D8MB26KG4.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-be-executed-brace-yourself/385630.md?page=2)