Saddam sentenced to death by hanging
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nino_savatte
No pasaran!
DexterTCN said:
They'll find someone...they always find someone else to blame.
How about Muqtadr al-Sadr?
magneze
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This was always a foregone conclusion once he'd been captured and he deserves a lifetime of prison. Never agree with the Death Penalty though and the way the whole thing has been done (especially the rather convenient timing) really annoys.
I hope the violence in Iraq subsides for the sake of the people there, but I fear it won't.
I hope the violence in Iraq subsides for the sake of the people there, but I fear it won't.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Oh. I always thought he'd end up doing the whole guest speaker routine 
punkrockfaggot
>Squat this space
I'd feel slightly better if Donald Rumsfield was hung with him...
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
and there's Bush and Blair having a nice Sunday lunch, and just killing a little time before moving onto their respective lecture circuits.
What is the civilian death toll in Iraq running at now, a 9/11 every four weeks, I believe ?
And to think; we didn't even get to hold onto the oil for very long . . .
What is the civilian death toll in Iraq running at now, a 9/11 every four weeks, I believe ?
And to think; we didn't even get to hold onto the oil for very long . . .
mauvais said:
The murder of villagers after an attempted assinatin attempt.... He ordered nearly a whole village masacred as retaliation. There's also the gassing of the Kurds to think about, starting a war with Iran (and using gas during part of it), invading Kuwait, and the systematic disappearence and torture of people he did like the look of.
The guys hardly blameless....
mauvais
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I know, but at what point did they actually manage to convict him of any of this stuff? The last I heard, they were trying to produce evidence about the Kurdish massacre but not really making much headway - not because it didn't happen, but because the trial was a bit of a farce.jæd said:
max_freakout
Nothing matters
So we invaded a sovereign country, slaughtered many thousands of people, endless expense, and no end of all the suffering on the horizon, and this is the BEST thing to come out of it? Another murder
Saddam is charged with killing 148 people
Saddam is charged with killing 148 people
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I will not shed any tears when Saddam is executed but it is interesting how the trial or trials are being managed in such a way as to avoid any embarrasing evidence coming out about the conduct of Britain or America in the years before this recent invasion and deposing of Saddam.
What it simply proves is that despite all the international law and conventions or whatever, the only law that really runs the world is the law of the biggest gun.
The winners make the rules, as they always have done.
What it simply proves is that despite all the international law and conventions or whatever, the only law that really runs the world is the law of the biggest gun.
The winners make the rules, as they always have done.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
nino_savatte said:
Yup, they had the usual ragbag of factions (with the Muslim Brotherhood (Iraq chapter) backing the monarchy, but Britain "created" Iraq with the intention of it being a secular entity.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
pyrovitae said:
I'd wager that the decision is political.
Hanging is considered by some Muslims to be a shameful way of dying, so IMHO the court (possibly at the behest of the US) is sending a message. Saddam will be executed in the way a traitor would be, rather than "cleanly", by the sword or the bullet, which might be read as some form of "warrior's death".
ViolentPanda said:
As far as I'm aware, death by firing squad is reserved for soldiers. Saddam was never a soldier.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
ViolentPanda said:
The usual method of execution...well, is there one in Iraq? The Royal Family and Nuri es Said weren't killed by so-called traditional methods iirc. Nuri was dragged around the streets of Baghdad and his body was abused by all and sundry. Qassim was beheaded (?) live on television.
But those who call for Saddam's execution for gassing the Kurds tend to overlook all the butchery that's taken place there over the last 80 odd years. I don't condone what he's done at all and you're right, the decision is political.
It's a short term high...a little like amyl nitrate; the effects will soon wear off.
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