NO SH!T. Except we ALREADY HAD A FVCKING LESSON. It was called Yugo-fvcking-slavia and Tito, but the drum-beaters failed sophomore European History.
Saddam Hussein to be Executed by Saturday:
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i used to oppose it... but now, i would gladly volunteer to be a sumarilly enforcer.
I wonder what he's having for a last meal. I'd have Pierogies.
Am I the only one expecting a Jack Bauer-esque rescue attempt? Saddam's a wiley one. And he's got buddies out there....I can TOTALLY see something cool (as in interesting) going down before it happens...
MikeD will set him free in order to maintain our cause of spreading liberty.
Yep everything in life is exactly like TV. Just like you will die painlessly in your sleep at a happy old age and not rotting away for years with some horrible and painful cancerous disease.
Actually not really, and that laugh track you hear is the world laughing AT you.
Expect a mass rocket, suicide bomb attack on the green zone? Bring in the crimson guard or whatever they are called. Hope MikeD gets through all this from his happy home in the green zone!
he is no more
Actually not really, and that laugh track you hear is the world laughing AT you.
It's like I'm always watching M*A*S*H
Santa Claus? They killed Santa Claus, those bastards.
ZZ Top? They killed ZZ Top, those bastards.
He was pretty good at rock, paper, scissors but he sucked at this game...
Yay, the war is won. The troops can come home now. I wonder if there'll be a bidding war for the tape and whether the news channels will show it in it's entirety.
That is pretty phuqueing funny... 
you need an excuse?
Absolutely. If you can't make that work, I got a banjo to celebrate.
Here's some bad video of the execution if you're morbidly curious enough to watch it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521
Well....he seemed to take it like a man....
Did nothing for me. I could barely understand what they were saying.
Cool. Saddam is dead. When does Rumsfeld get strung up?
Nice drop....landing was a bit sketchy.
Looked a little like Bender, didn't it?
I find it remarkable that they only tried and sentenced him for that one masskilling of 148 people. It's as if the other atrocities (dunno how many they were) he commited weren't important. Weren't there like 10000 Kurds gassed? Other great atrocieties must have been commited surely..
Strangely the BBC article linked in this thread barely touched that subject. In the other BBC link the Amnesty and HRW guys spoke of a dodgy trial, but that was waived off by the German official...
What kind of justice is that? Hardly anything that belongs to a state that some call a democracy. I bet the Kurds don't feel like their cause has been treated just and democratic.
Strangely the BBC article linked in this thread barely touched that subject. In the other BBC link the Amnesty and HRW guys spoke of a dodgy trial, but that was waived off by the German official...
What kind of justice is that? Hardly anything that belongs to a state that some call a democracy. I bet the Kurds don't feel like their cause has been treated just and democratic.
As Fonzie18 pointed out, he was on separate trial for attacks on the Khurds.I find it remarkable that they only tried and sentenced him for that one masskilling of 148 people. It's as if the other atrocities (dunno how many they were) he commited weren't important. Weren't there like 10000 Kurds gassed? Other great atrocieties must have been commited surely..
Strangely the BBC article linked in this thread barely touched that subject. In the other BBC link the Amnesty and HRW guys spoke of a dodgy trial, but that was waived off by the German official...
What kind of justice is that? Hardly anything that belongs to a state that some call a democracy. I bet the Kurds don't feel like their cause has been treated just and democratic.
You'd think they would have let the trial finish before killing him though. It makes it look as though they simply wanted an excuse to kill him as quickly as possible. That can't be right though, could it?
Mission Accomplished.
It's bananas. You're right, I wasn't clear enough. They had at least one other trial going on and possibly more to come.As Fonzie18 pointed out, he was on separate trial for attacks on the Khurds.
You'd think they would have let the trial finish before killing him though. It makes it look as though they simply wanted an excuse to kill him as quickly as possible. That can't be right though, could it?
I was a bit surprised when Swedens current foreign minister, Carl Bildt, criticized the Iraqi authorities for not completing all the trials (surprised because he belongs to the party which has suck up to the US most of them all).
"It was of importance to determine the question of guilt. Non the least when it comes to crimes against the Kurdish people. That trial had barely started."
and
"What he was sentenced to death for was in comparison to the other crimes he commited, a small crime." Carl Bildt said.
The social democratic prime minister we had until just recently never voiced a critical word against the "allies". Total tool. I'm living in the "up n'down world" when it comes to Swedish foreign politics..
There is a school of thought that Saddam had to be executed before he could testify to the complicity of the West in his killing of the Kurds. We wouldn't want anyone to know about where he got his chemicals from after all.
Funny how gassing Iranians still seems to be acceptable though.
Funny how gassing Iranians still seems to be acceptable though.
To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies... Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?
I don't think it's any big secret. No one seems to care about it, so we don't care about hiding it.