Like a pendulum do….
Anyone know where a blogger can git one of them there fancy countdown clocks?
Bumped to top
Dec.29 Updates: Some of the response to this news is curious, if not downright illogical. “Executing Saddam won’t improve the situation in Iraq” would be one way to sum up the argument. The New York Times dives head first into the realm of absurdity, arguing the execution doesn’t “nurture hope for a better future” – as though allowing the spider-hole dictator to escape a legally delivered sentence to taunt his victims under state protection for the remainder of his days would signal some turning of a corner in Iraqi justice.
Well, executing Saddam has nothing to do with “improving” Iraq (though it’s hard not to argue that his demise would do so by default). Executing Saddam has to do with delivering justice to a mass murderer on behalf of his victims.
Jules Crittenden reflects on his time reporting from Iraq;
So now comes the part where a monster, reduced to a ridiculous cranky old man, will have a rope put around his neck and take his drop. For civilized people it is impossible not to feel some empathy with any man’s mortality in the cold moment of execution. In my house we have a joke. Saddam doesn’t like Fruit Loops. More for us. Now, No Fruit Loops guy is going to get it. Even more for us.
We all know the enormity of his crimes, and many of us know men and women who are dead because of him. But the only satisfaction I’ll feel with his death is to know that there is still justice that is carried to termination and not cynically subverted in this world. It is only more death on top of death after that.
More Updates – Word behind the scenes is that Saddam’s time is best measured in hours, not days.
Waiting… at Iraq the Model.
Post mortem note – And… the book is closed on one former murdering dictator. CBC made some noise about the haste of the execution, depriving the Kurds of their day in court. Apparently, nobody in their research department stumbled upon the fact that Hussein was nearing the magic age of 70, and the “get out of noose free” card that comes with that under Iraqi law.
Confederate Yankee’s source places the main event “at 4:22 AM… and every media source on the planet is wrong about the 6:00 AM execution.”
Video.
New- WMD found and neutralized, in Iraq.
A, that’s rich, from the organization that has probably been responsible for the largest aggregate number of human deaths by human hands in recorded history…
Well, judging by much of the commentary on this blog, people here would like to imprison, torture, and kill “moonbats” and “lefties”. You don’t disaprove Stalin’s actions; you disaprove the cause in the name of which he claimed to perform them. This is confirmed by your support of American foreign policy over the years, particularly in Asia and Latin America.
Yes, I know what the counter-argument will be: something variant of “you’re an idiot”. Let’s just take it as said, shall we? In fact, I’ll post the reply for you.
exile, you’re an idiot. You’re stupid. you’re a moonbat. You’re a cheese-eating surrender monkey.
correction: “some variant”
And apparently illiterate, too.
I’m sorry, I just fed a troll; I am so weak. Maybe gene therapy will rid me of the social dystrophia that seems to signal that minor character flaw deep from my lineage somwhere…
Media ” .. eliminating a brutal dictator may(they hope)unleash more violence ..” Like the cartoons did ??
sarge here. yes the tyrant is dead-wonder what the hurry was-perhaps old bushs 1st thing what went as planned. sarge awaits the other foot to drop ie the handing over of them other mass war criminals to the iraqi civil authority bush runmmie and cheney. sarge has no love of old sadam but wonders if bush will be brave enough to forgo the hood or will he wet his pants while crying out for his somewhat dehydrated mommy?
See Provocateur’s comments on the Hussein execution
http://provocateurjim.blogspot.com/
The Saddam deathwatch is over, now we can start watching the MSM to see who is the first ‘journalist’ to elevate Saddam above Ghandi.
I’m guessing a week or two.
How’s it hanging?
exile:
You did a great job of dissing yourself. Now do me a favour and bitch-slap yourself across the head, OK?
I’m disappointed. Not a single blogger or media outlet referred to Saddam’s execution as “the mother of all hangings”. Look for yourself:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=the+mother+of+all+hangings
I mean…the headline was just begging to be used.
My sympathy and condolences to his remaining family members. I share the rejoice to the Kurds and Shia of the removal of the haunting spectre of the thought od another Hussein ever ruling over them again.Probably sucks to be a Sunni or Bat’thst today, but who cares?
Raghad, aka “Little Saddam”, is alive.
As Jeancula Chretien once said, da proof is da proof is proven. …-
Dictator’s daughter told her father would hang as she enjoyed beauty salon
She was relaxing in the Dazzle beauty salon awaiting a hot stone body scrub when she got the call.
It was obviously something important or her personal assistant would not have risked invoking her volcanic temper by passing her the mobile phone mid-treatment.
Indeed it was. On the end of the line was a lawyer telling her that Saddam Hussein had lost his appeal and would hang by the end of the week.
And the tall, slim woman who paled as she received this news was the tyrant’s redoubtable eldest daughter Raghad.
There was much arm-waving, cursing and shrieking. But as a member of staff noted when she recounted the story to another customer, this kind of behaviour from Raghad is hardly unusual.
In the beauty salon, and elsewhere in the Jordanian capital Amman, the 39-year-old mother of five, who is nicknamed “Little Saddam’ because her temperament so closely resembles that of her father, is much-feared.
And like her father during his brutal reign, she is used to getting her own way, although unlike him she has relied on nothing sharper than her tongue.
Number 16 on the Iraqi government’s most wanted list, Raghad took charge of family affairs after the capture of the dictator, assembling the international team of lawyers to defend him.
On the death of her brothers Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in July 2003, Raghad and her sister Rana fled Iraq for neighbouring Jordan where, protected by paramilitary police officers, they are guests of the royal family.
It is not clear how much of her father’s money Raghad escaped with, although if the stories about his ex-wives fleeing with millions in cash and gold bars are to be believed, she is unlikely to have been neglected.
Given her father’s notoriety, one might expect Raghad to lead an anonymous, if not a humble, life in exile, especially as her mother Sajida and Saddam’s three other wives all but disappeared without trace following the fall of Baghdad and are said to live under assumed names.
But Raghad, not one to shrink from the public gaze, went on TV on more than one occasion, at least in the months immediately after her father’s capture, to defend him.
Of his arrest, she said: “Saddam was tranquillised when captured. He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760589/posts
The Toronto Sun has an excellent lead editorial today , “How the West Could be Lost”. In it, the West’s almost blanket condemnation–Canada didn’t join it, quite–of the hanging of Saddam, which was carried out after he was “fairly tried in an Iraqi court, judged by Iraqis and executed by them for crimes against Iraqis.” Did the West protest the mass murders committed under his regime, usually with no trial or after the deliberations of a kangaroo court? No.
“Less and less in the West these days–thanks to the insidious doctrine of moral equivalence–do we seem capapble of unequivocally condemning evil [what’s THAT?], even when it is staring us right in the face.
“Rest assured, thought, that our enemies are watching our timid, politically correct reactions. And learning. And plotting.”
As I’ve said many times in many threads, this insidious moral equivalence, which levels the playing field only for the miscreants–good guys lose out, big time–is alive and well in our public school systems–and a whole lot of other systems besides. When the battle comes here, as it well may, will Canada have enough citizens of the calibre of our fine military men and women fighting for us now? I seriously have my doubts.
The almost complete collapse of moral fortitude in the politically correct gulags of the West is a tragedy. A stupid one.
http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=true&token=863ce7d4a3&p=59122&s=1
Yes, Virginia, the Euroweenies are repulsive, Citoyen Dion included. …-
Media ‘repulsed’ by Saddam footage
AFP Sunday, December 31, 2006 20:23 IST
LONDON: Commentators and the media across Europe expressed shock and unease on Sunday at graphic television pictures showing the last moments of Saddam Hussein just before his execution.
Images of the fallen Iraqi dictator with a noose around his neck, surrounded by hooded xecutioners,[sic] horrified a continent which does not use capital punishment, even though the actual death was not shown.
“The images of Saddam Hussein with a noose around his neck are extremely disturbing and unnecessary,” said Sir Menzies Campbell, leader of Britain’s second opposition Liberal Democrat party, which opposed the Iraq war.
Patrick Baudouin, honorary president of FIDH (the International Federation of Human Rights), said he was “repulsed by images representing an extremely unhealthy voyeurism”.
He added that it reminded him of the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu in 1989.
“The footage of the execution shocked the whole world,” the Austrian daily Oesterreich said…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760716/posts
I find the debate on wether or not Sadam should be executed or not to be rather silly. Why is it any of our business. Iraq belongs to Iraqis, its their country and its for them to run not us.