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| Iraq officials seek death by hanging for Saddam |
| 2004-06-20 |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #15 They try him, but we guard him until it's time to hang him. Then they get to do that. It's nice to share. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-20 10:59:46 PM |
| #14 Are we sure they will kill him? Or even convict him? Or even hold him? I don't rule out a magic disappearing act. I'm with you on this one. Although holding him indefinitely is a political pain in the ass, handing him over to the Iraqis is risky business. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-06-20 10:27:13 PM |
| #13 snellenr - Think he'll holler "Freedom!" as he's disemboweled? [Awright! Where've you been?] |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-20 10:14:50 PM |
| #12 Do I hear any votes for drawing-and-quartering? Although Mel Gibson makes it look kinda romantic, I'm pretty sure it isn't... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2004-06-20 9:54:10 PM |
| #11 Mark, I don't know if it's WWIII quite yet. I agree that it could come to that, God forbid, but not if we make the right moves. As for turning over Saddam . . . I think it'll be important for the new Iraq to have closure - assuming, of course, that Zpaz's worst fears don't come true. The states that made deals with Saddam will have to be dealt with, and that's definitely going to take some time. I agree that we need to know all that there is to know, but you know, I wouldn't put it past the CIA to make remarks about how well Saddam was doing under pressure to talk to disguise what they'd gotten out of him. After all, if you capture an enemy and say his talking, his friends are going to know that you know what he knew. On the other hand, I may be giving the CIA too much credit. My only fear is that somehow the Iraqis' hands will be tied by the UN before we get the bastard swinging from the edge of a rope. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-06-20 7:31:40 PM |
| #10 Are we sure they will kill him? Or even convict him? Or even hold him? I don't rule out a magic disappearing act. "Abdul, where'd he go? Achmed, I thought you were wathcing him." Until we know their government is functioning, we should hold him. |
| Posted by: Zpaz 2004-06-20 10:40:07 AM |
| #9 Placement of the knot is important in a hanging. Place the knot behind the head and the executee slowly strangles from his own weight. Place the knot to the side of the neck, the drop snaps it. No mercy in this case please. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-06-20 10:24:21 AM |
| #8 Mark, interesting post. But I'm not sure why you think Sadaam can't be turned over to the Iraqi's. Do you think that we haven't wrung him dry yet? Just asking. |
| Posted by: B 2004-06-20 8:50:48 AM |
| #7 Hanging works for me,as long as it is not one of those new fangled scaffoldings with the fancy trap door.Keep it simple a tree branch,a rope,and a foot stool. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-06-20 7:35:55 AM |
| #6 I think we would be making a HUGE mistake if we turn Saddam over to the so-called new Iraqi government. When Saddam was captured in his little hole in the ground, he had a reported $750,000 in crisp American one hundred dollar bills. Where are the millions-billions in cold cash, Euros, Dollars, Pounds, Swiss Francs, etc, he made off the Oil For Food (profit)program? The reported 31 million Assad paid for his WMD, which some of which are located in the Hizballah controlled heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley jointly 'protected' by Syrian troops. 'Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new. Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq. He and Assad made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and drugs to and from Iraq, according to the May 13, 2003 edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com. The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons.' I stated some of the WMD, since the recently uncovered jihadist plot to murder an estimated 80 thousand people in Amman Jordan through a deadly multi-site chemical attack. Chemicals (WMD) transferred (via trucks) into Jordan from Syria. Oh yes indeed Saddam's WMD are not only out there, they are out there & under there (sand) in many places. And there is this tid bit: 'U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time. U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.' How much money does Saddam have stashed? Billions! If U.S. Coalition forces let this swine be turned over to 'Iraqi' control Saddam will use those billions in more way than one and then another set of major & dangerous headaches commence not only for Coalition forces but Saddam's revenge shall begin. Saddam MUST remain in U.S. custody. As long as the Axis of terror Iran-Syria-Lebanon is allowed to remain, our boys are up against it, and that is not in the least fair to them, nor their loved ones. This is the beginning of World War 3, not a regional conflict with sort term resolutions. Are most members of the public cognizant of the seriousness of the general geostrategic situation confronting each & every one of us? Or will it take additional 9-11's style mass slaughters carried out by the organized world-wide death cult? .......you fill in the rest. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-06-20 2:42:30 AM |
| #5 To paraphrase the old legal joke: I am sure they will give that murdering sunuvabitch a fair trial. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-06-20 1:33:04 AM |
| #4 Wild boars. Wild boars. |
| Posted by: someone 2004-06-20 1:24:47 AM |
| #3 Yeah, I was kinda hoping for something slow and lingering myself. Oh, and intensely painful, too. Not to mention unbearably humiliating. Screwed to death by a camel, perhaps... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-06-20 1:18:04 AM |
| #2 Barb, have you ever seen a hanging? It's not a pretty sight. Watching a man have the life strangled out of him, feet kicking and body twisting until he slowly stops moving. And the face while this is happening! It's also possible for Saddam to be beheaded by hanging him. If he's kept on enough wait and the wrope is angled correctly. It's happened before here in the US. I can't wait for the PPV special. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-06-20 1:17:08 AM |
| #1 Hanging's too good for him (I'd prefer the shredder), but he's their murdering dictator, so they get to choose. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-20 12:44:55 AM |