Hussein to hang this weekend........

[big dumb sex]

It's definately going to be videoed so I was hearing on the radio this morning.  God knows why.  So it's going to end up on the net somewhere.

[gunsnrosesaxlrockz]

speaking of the net, has anyone found a video of steve irwin dying yet?  Off the subject but...

[RKD]

fair enough. its all down to views and opinions. i can't wait to see Saddam killed and i bet the families of all those killed by him can't either. the one difference being that Saddam Hussein didn't send an army into another country to be killed, he killed innocent civilians who didn't stand a chance against his brutality. Bush sent in an army who is trained to kill, people who at least stood some fighting chance.

i have no problem with people bashing bush, but i hope people won't start bashing the troops for the same reasons. cos due to popular belief they ain't all jackasses who imprison civilians and torture and embarrass them...

[axlstwin]

fair enough. its all down to views and opinions. i can't wait to see Saddam killed and i bet the families of all those killed by him can't either. the one difference being that Saddam Hussein didn't send an army into another country to be killed, he killed innocent civilians who didn't stand a chance against his brutality. Bush sent in an army who is trained to kill, people who at least stood some fighting chance.

i have no problem with people bashing bush, but i hope people won't start bashing the troops for the same reasons. cos due to popular belief they ain't all jackasses who imprison civilians and torture and embarrass them...

See nemo's post... great precision in expression I thought

[RKD]

See nemo's post... great precision in expression I thought

i did

[misterbrownstone]

i love nemo's posts.

[Sid]

Saddam deserves to live because the death penalty is never a justifiable punishment, at the end of the day he's only being killed because Georgie boy wants him gone.  Bush is putting his own ego ahead of justice and common sense

And yes, look at what's happened, to get to a point where he can execute saddam for killing his own people (funny how no-one wants bush killed for allowing the death penalty in America though) he has started an illegal war, killing hundreds of thousands of those same Iraqi's, turning their country into a lawless warzone (at least when saddam was in charge you knew what you had to do to get killed, now people can't even leave their own house incase they get blown up) and also killed over 1,000 of his own countrymen and another hundred and something british soldiers.

I'm not going to try and say Saddam is innocent, or that he wasn't a murdering tyrant, but at the end of the day he's not the only one out there and his country is in a far, far worse state now than it was before we overthrew him

   

Great post! So true.

[Rock Diva]

this invasion of Iraq was completely illegal and therefore is at least equal to the crimes of Saddam's.

That has been true for almost four years now, however, nothing will ever be done about it.

The big deal I can see now is that Saddam is in US custody. Why the hell should he be in US custody when he is on trial for murdering Iraqis ? This trial has been governed by Bush from the start, even a blind person can see that, and they're just trying to hurry things along so it all gets swept under the carpet.

Even people who were mad at Saddam for doing whatever he did are smelling bullshit over this, it's not about his rights over the rights of his victims, but after such a preposterous trial the only thing left will be matyrdom for Saddam, and a number of people who begin to feel that someone who has committed mass murder deserves vindication because his trial was a farce.

[nemo]

Ah, it just gets better and better now, the execution is to take place apparently at 6.00am local time, 3.00am gmt, I think that's about 10pm est for you yanks, so 2 and a half hours from now

anyways, saddam's lawyers appealed to the U.S. court against the handover to the Iraqi's, but apparently that's been ignored and he's been given over anyway.  Now I ain't no lawyer and all, but I'm fairly sure you're not meant to do that.  I'm kinda hoping this isn't just a case of misreporting, because if America have actually fucked up here, I'm quite interested to see what their own justice system will do to them

[RKD]

well at least one good thing is happening... south park will be somewhat factual... the future of saddam:

[Slashist]

lets hope the violence that his execution will cause is restricted to Iraq.  I have to fly to europe on monday, and i want it to be nice and uneventful.

[Rock Diva]

Saddam has been hanged.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-12-30T030839Z_01_IBO034602_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml

[an old rocker]

saw hit on the news...they just stopped recording before he hanger...probably for the best that they didn't show this. Death penalty isn't something to be happy about.