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2007-01-08 Iraq

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Posted by Frank G 2007-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hang 'em. Hang 'em high and exercise the dawgs.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-07 16:54|| 2007-01-07 16:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Sammy swinging, the short vid

click where it says 'download' top left

Posted by RD 2007-01-08 03:28|| 2007-01-08 03:28|| Front Page Top

#3 So you can stretch someone's neck with a rope, but you cannot say hurtful things to them as they drop through the trap.

O.K.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-08 07:59|| 2007-01-08 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Saddam received a far more dignified send-off than he gave any of his many victims. That's real progress.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-08 09:11|| 2007-01-08 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Are Tariq Aziz and Baghdad Bob amongst these guys?

If not, where are these two?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-08 11:05|| 2007-01-08 11:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Tariq's in Iraqi prison awaiting trial, IIRC, but Bob was just a spokeshole...he won't get the necktie

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 11:40|| 2007-01-08 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 hanging should be a dignified affair

Don't remember who, but someone snarked that Saddam was the only one in the room who behaved like an adult.

Posted by SteveS 2007-01-08 13:20|| 2007-01-08 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 As I recall, Baghdad Bob once tried to turn himself in but was laughed off--literally. He won't be swinging unless he does so himself.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-01-08 13:50|| 2007-01-08 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't approve of the way Saddam was hung, either. It should have been in a public place, say from those "crossed swords" on that broad street he had everybody march down. The crowd should have been allowed to count down from ten, with him dropping on "zero". Celebrate it for the joyous occasion it was - the death of one who made far too many people's lives a living hell.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-01-08 14:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-01-08 14:10|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm with ya, OP, with one change - don't drop him down, haul him up.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-08 15:08|| 2007-01-08 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 NSFW
Saddam, New Video, neck broken thru and thru

Posted by RD 2007-01-08 17:41|| 2007-01-08 17:41|| Front Page Top

#12 you'd think he woulda worked out those neck muscles a little more, he had nothing but time :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 19:23|| 2007-01-08 19:23|| Front Page Top

#13 That was not a very dignified video. Besides, the Hague did not get a chance to sentence him to a life of boredom.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-01-08 21:28|| 2007-01-08 21:28|| Front Page Top

#14 it left a mark.

»:-)

Posted by RD 2007-01-08 22:25|| 2007-01-08 22:25|| Front Page Top

#15 "we sentence your hypoid bone to fracture and the neck innards to exposure"..there, fixed that fer ya

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 22:28|| 2007-01-08 22:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Aziz will be a defendant in the marshes case, should it come to trial (it's one of six cases total - including Dujayl and Anfal - on which the US has provided major investigative support to the tribunal). As noted above, Baghdad Bob was questioned but was of no interest in any of the investigations.

Have John Howard or his foreign minister Downer chimed in yet on the Saddam execution? Of all the world's leaders, they're about the only ones with an ounce of sense that they allow to be publicly displayed on such matters. Blair? Nice rhetoric at times, and basically gets it, but illustrative of his country's ambivalence to utterly unambiguous things (devotion to globaloney on various fronts and ridiculous obsession with mythical "peace processes").

Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-08 22:49|| 2007-01-08 22:49|| Front Page Top

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