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2005-04-11 Iraq-Jordan

Saddam may escape noose in deal to halt insurgency

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Posted by Anonymous5089 2005-04-11 3:43:18 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bullshit.

Posted by .com 2005-04-11 4:27:31 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:27:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Necktie Party!

Posted by mojo 2005-04-11 4:49:50 PM|| 2005-04-11 4:49:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Honestly, I think Saddam will be lucky to ONLY be hanged. I'm sure he would prefer that to say, being tied to a post and letting all his victim's family toss rocks at him or give him a nice lingering death by toothpicks.

Posted by Silentbrick 2005-04-11 5:02:02 PM|| 2005-04-11 5:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The only question is the method of his televised execution. Although I think being fed through a shredder or dropped into a vat of boiling lard are at the top of the list, poison gas is probably the most appropriate. He should not be shot or hung as death from those methods arrives too quickly and cleanly.

As to his buddies in the "insurgency" they should be told to go away lest their lives end in a similar fashion.

Posted by RWV 2005-04-11 5:04:26 PM|| 2005-04-11 5:04:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm with .com on this - BS

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-11 5:20:18 PM|| 2005-04-11 5:20:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 hmmm. im was thinkerin use him sum kinda reality teeevee showand make sum money wile at it

Posted by muck4doo 2005-04-11 5:20:42 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-04-11 5:20:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 hey muckster, glad to see you back!

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-11 5:25:05 PM|| 2005-04-11 5:25:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The anthrax letters in late 2001 were not intended to be deadly. They were merely warnings. The stuff that went to the Senate was the real deal - grade A weaponized anthrax. Close to the theoretical maximum number of spores per gram very easily aerosolized.

If a little bit of that stuff inside the US, the implication is that a lot of it is inside the US. A lot meaning 10 KG, but that would be enough.

Saddam and his cronies were convinced that WMD saved them during the 1987 fighting. In 1991, Bush the Elder abruptly stopped the war the same morning that a CW SCUD full of concrete landed in southern Israel. And in 2001... "This is next. You can not stop us." In 2003, Bush the Younger and Saddam played a big game of chicken. Saddam flinched, but never let go of his ace-in-the-hole. That is why Saddam will live.

Posted by Fleater Angoper3898 2005-04-11 6:28:51 PM|| 2005-04-11 6:28:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Bush 41 stopped the war because a SCUD landed in Israel?

Please.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-11 6:40:20 PM|| 2005-04-11 6:40:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey,mucky,what's up.Not necessarly,RW.Being gut shot ain't a nice way to die.Pesonally I favor life in prision,with pre-internment pre-frontal lobatomy.Leve him a droooling,diaper wearing idiot.

Posted by raptor 2005-04-11 6:50:03 PM|| 2005-04-11 6:50:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 This is bullshit - these people can't stop the insurgency. Do you think the Iranian ~~terrorists~~ 'pilgrims' will stop the bloodshed? Do they think they can stop the Al-Q terrorists from murdering innocent civilians?

Iran, Binnie, and Al-Z do *not* want success in Iraq at any cost.

Posted by Mr 666 2005-04-11 7:44:21 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:44:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Total, unmitigated BS. I'm surprised this was in the Telegraph and not the New York Times.

Posted by someone 2005-04-11 7:53:55 PM|| 2005-04-11 7:53:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "We are trying to reach out to the insurgents," the source said.

Sounds like a tactic from the Abu Mazen School of Governing, Lesson Four: How To "Defeat" Criminals/Terrorists by Not Using Force.

"We donât expect them to stop fighting unconditionally. Sending Saddam to prison for the rest of his life is not a huge price for us to pay, but it will save them a lot of face."

Here's a better idea: Execute Saddam and blow the faces off any "insurgents" found. No face, no need to worry about "losing" it.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-11 9:26:09 PM|| 2005-04-11 9:26:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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