# Saddam to hang 'no later than Saturday' **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017 "2006-12-29T18:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/41 "2006-12-30T03:20:17Z")
The news is now reporting that he’s dead, Jim. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/42 "2006-12-30T03:22:40Z")
But is he **still** dead? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/43 "2006-12-30T03:27:18Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] The news is now reporting that he’s dead, Jim. [/QUOTE] You grab his watch, and I’ll get his wallet. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/44 "2006-12-30T03:29:19Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] God, the U.S. networks are spunking over this. [/QUOTE] [So was Hussein, if they didn’t use a drop . . .](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_asphyxiation) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/45 "2006-12-30T04:10:38Z")
Y’know, BG, you managed to lower the level of taste in this thread. Congrats! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/46 "2006-12-30T04:15:06Z")
[QUOTE=dropzone] Y’know, BG, you managed to lower the level of taste in this thread. Congrats! 😃 [/QUOTE] [bows] Thank you. Of course, your username set a high bar . . . ---
**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 30, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/47 "2006-12-30T04:26:28Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] You grab his watch, and I’ll get his wallet. [/QUOTE] I want his Mannlicher carbine. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/48 "2006-12-30T04:43:49Z")
He’s puttin’ angels in his rape room, now… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/49 "2006-12-30T04:46:04Z")
Good Lord, Bryan! You took BG’s bad taste and stomped all over it! I am DEFINITELY stealing that one. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/50 "2006-12-30T14:47:39Z")
SATAN: Saddam! But . . . but, you’re dead! I killed you! SADDAM: Yeah, you killed me! Where was I gonna go, Detroit?! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/51 "2006-12-30T15:54:32Z")
The [Iranians](http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/30/africa/ME_GEN_Iran_Saddam.php) are pleased, at any rate – but a bit disappointed Hussein was never put on trial for invading them. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/52 "2006-12-30T16:26:40Z")
Side question and small hijack: didn’t he have a bunch of lookalike bodyguards? Whatever happened to them? let the conspiracies begin… Eh, for real tv dump him in with hippos or drawn and quartered by Hummers. Something with pizzaz to feed to the next round of election commericals. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/53 "2006-12-30T16:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] Eh, for real tv dump him in with hippos or drawn and quartered by Hummers. Something with pizzaz to feed to the next round of election commericals. [/QUOTE] They’re saving that for sweeps. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/54 "2007-01-01T17:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The [Iranians](http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/30/africa/ME_GEN_Iran_Saddam.php) are pleased, at any rate – but a bit disappointed Hussein was never put on trial for invading them. [/QUOTE] Of course not; that would make [America’s role](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece) in supporting and arming Saddam admissible for the trial, and we can’t have _that_… > [@Robert Fisk](#): > > Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam’s weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/55 "2007-01-01T17:42:03Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] Side question and small hijack: didn’t he have a bunch of lookalike bodyguards? [/QUOTE] The good news is that Saddam was not killed in the bomb attack. The bad news is that he’s lost a leg. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/56 "2007-01-01T18:07:26Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] Of course not; that would make [America’s role](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece) in supporting and arming Saddam admissible for the trial, and we can’t have _that_… [/QUOTE] And we supplied weapons to Iran too. what’s your point? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/57 "2007-01-01T18:08:35Z")
And by supplied I mean sold. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/58 "2007-01-02T01:36:30Z")
[QUOTE=Magiver] And we supplied weapons to Iran too. what’s your point? [/QUOTE] Depends. Were we seeking justice for the millions killed in the Iran-Iraq war and the massacre of the Kurds? Or were we simply seeking an excuse to kill someone that GWB disliked? Because the execution of Saddam only accomplished the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/59 "2007-01-02T03:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] Depends. Were we seeking justice for the millions killed in the Iran-Iraq war and the massacre of the Kurds? Or were we simply seeking an excuse to kill someone that GWB disliked? Because the execution of Saddam only accomplished the latter. [/QUOTE] There’s no “we” here. Iraqis convicted Saddam for crimes he commited against them. Your political views of GW mean nothing to them. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017/60 "2007-01-02T03:46:08Z")
[QUOTE=Magiver] And we supplied weapons to Iran too. [/QUOTE] Do you _really_ want to open that box, Pandora? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddam-to-hang-no-later-than-saturday/386017.md?page=2)