According to the latest reports, Saddam has been visited by his relatives and given them his will, so it definitely looks like the noose is approaching. He’s apparently still in US custody, however.
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I never quite get the concept that something will further inflame people already so angry at us that they will blow themselves up with dynamite strapped to their bodies.
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Agreed. My opposition to the death penalty has nothing to do with this though. Just lock the guy up for life. Somewhere. Anywhere. As long as due legal process is followed.
Obscure exile deals are nearly as bad as killing the man, IMHO.
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He’s apparently still in US custody, however.
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I’m thinking when it happens, it will happen very quickly and we won’t find out about it until after it’s over.
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What’s an axis-of-evil to do?
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The Iranians would string him up so fast the knot would catch fire. Suggesting the Iranians would be nice to Saddam Hussein is like suggesting that if Hitler had been discovered alive in 1952, the Israelis would have taken him in and kept him alive just to spite Germany.
Art imitates life:
Remember how potty mouthed Terrance and Philip were executed, which brought satan and (ironically) Saddam from Hell?
Just…pointing it out…that’s all…
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I just hope they let him make a final public speech from the scaffold. That would be entertaining!
Hey, Charles I and Louis XVI got to do that!
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Speaking of entertainment; is there any chance the Iraqi government will televise the execution? I read somewhere that they were considering it.
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Speaking of entertainment; is there any chance the Iraqi government will televise the execution? I read somewhere that they were considering it.
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Dunno, but I bet you’ll be able to see it on Ogrish . com within hours of it taking place. Somebody’s gonna tape it, I’m sure.
When’s the last time a head of state (or former head of state) was legally (or illegally) executed? I think Milosovich (sp?) died in prison, didn’t he?
I’m suprised by this, that it’s really going to happen. I thought he had more crimes to answer for, that there’d be more trials, and I didn’t know about the Iraqi law that says execute within 30 days after the final appeal.
How about his cohorts? He’s not the only one going down, is he?
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When’s the last time a head of state (or former head of state) was legally (or illegally) executed? I think Milosovich (sp?) died in prison, didn’t he?
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Nicolae Caeucescu was shot in the head in, I believe, 1989.
Wasn’t a Danish ( or swede?) PM get assassinated ( not the same thing as Executed for War Crimes) but the name Per or something sticks in my brain.
I just hope Saddam chickens out and offs himself before he is scheduled to swing.
I need the points.
Just like you to think about that, Shirley. How selfish of you!!!
I lie. Get those points, hon.
Not to be incredibly glib or anything, but what an amazing trio of dead celebrities we have this week (assuming nothing else happens): James Brown, Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein. I’m trying to imagine a joke with the three of them walking into a bar.
Maybe you’re thinking of Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician (but not PM).
James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein walk into a bar.
James Brown suddenly breaks into a super-cool dance move, but as he comes out of he spin he bumps into Ford.
Ford says, “Pardon…”
“I’ll take it!” Saddam shouts.
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…How about his cohorts? He’s not the only one going down, is he?
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Hussein will be hanged along with two others, Barzan Hassan and Awad Bandar.
It’s good to keep up on such things.
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Not to be incredibly glib or anything, but what an amazing trio of dead celebrities we have this week (assuming nothing else happens): James Brown, Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein. I’m trying to imagine a joke with the three of them walking into a bar.
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I don’t know about the three of them, but…
Does Saddam Hussein wear boxers, or briefs?
Boxers. He’s a swinger.
It’s the best I can come up with in an instant. Sorry.
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Wasn’t a Danish ( or swede?) PM get assassinated ( not the same thing as Executed for War Crimes) but the name Per or something sticks in my brain…
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Olaf Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was murdered in the 1980s after dismissing his bodyguards for the dayl. Back the OP, what the fuck are his lawyers doing filing an apeal in a US court 
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James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein walk into a bar.
James Brown suddenly breaks into a super-cool dance move, but as he comes out of he spin he bumps into Ford.
Ford says, “Pardon…”
“I’ll take it!” Saddam shouts.
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Wasn’t a Danish ( or swede?) PM get assassinated ( not the same thing as Executed for War Crimes) but the name Per or something sticks in my brain.
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The Norwegian Vidkun Quisling (puppet head of government during WWII) was executed after the war. The Swedish PM Olof Palme was murdered in 1986, while walking home from the cinema. One of those?
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Back the OP, what the fuck are his lawyers doing filing an apeal in a US court ?
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Trying to bump up their fees?
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Back the OP, what the fuck are his lawyers doing filing an apeal in a US court ?
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Any port in a storm, I guess. Have they appealed to the United Nations yet?