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Gopher
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 Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: CNN Is Reporting Saddam Hussein... |
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| has been sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity. |
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happeningthang
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| So those satiritcal wags saying televised executions are the way of the future are proven right?? |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
| So those satiritcal [sic?] wags saying televised executions are the way of the future are proven right? |
Hmm.
Here is what I have seen...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former President Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.
Iraqis under a curfew in Baghdad spilled out into the streets in celebration of the verdict, news footage showed. But protests were held in Saddam Hussein's hometown... |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam/index.html
Where is your information that his execution will occur on television coming from? |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:32 am Post subject: Re: CNN Is Reporting Saddam Hussein... |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| has been sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity. |
Wow. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| No information, but gut instinct says this newsworthy execution will see someone somewhere broadcasting this one. |
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Meegook
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:15 am Post subject: |
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Hopefully, it won't be much longer and we'll be hearing the same verdict for Cheney/Rumsfedl/Bush et al.
After all, Saddam was on trial for allegedly killing 148 people. Bush et al, killed almost 3000.
Meanwhile I can't wait to read U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark's new book about the Saddam trial. Clark calls it a "travesty." |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging
POSTED: 1102 GMT (1902 HKT), November 5, 2006
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam/
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.
Iraqis under a curfew in Baghdad spilled out into the streets in celebration of the verdict, news footage showed. But protests were held in Saddam Hussein's hometown.
Along with Hussein, his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Hassan, and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar also got death.
There will be automatic appeals for the four who were sentenced to death and life in prison.
The 50-minute session was dramatic. Hussein entered with a Quran in hand, as he had in the past. He began screaming Allahu Akhbar -- God is great -- as the verdict and sentencing was read.
He also argued with the chief judge and shouted, "Damn you and your court."
As the judge ordered him taken away, Hussein said, "Don't push me, boy."
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| I still think that that soldier who found him in that hole should have put a bullet in his head right then: the risk of the Sunnis using him as a martyr is too great. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| so the soldier shooting him wouldn't have turned him into a martyr? |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I think solitary confinement mixed with some hard labour for the rest of his life would be worse. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I think solitary confinement mixed with some hard labour for the rest of his life would be worse. |
But he has been like the Romanovs since he was captured. For political reasons, for Iraqi stability (if it is ever going to come), he really can't be permitted to live. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Here is what I have seen...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former President Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.
Iraqis under a curfew in Baghdad spilled out into the streets in celebration of the verdict, news footage showed. But protests were held in Saddam Hussein's hometown... |
and once again we have the "CNN" version. Just like how they "spilled out into the streets" to welcome the U.S. invaders......... or all the other cheering that happens on CNN "from" Iraq.
I remember how they showed people celebrating after Saddam was caught. What a piece of propaganda. One or two guys with handguns outside, shooting up the place and dancing. The rest of the crowd looking on bewildered at the "celebration". Somehow I don't think this vision of dancing Iraqis, dancing in yours or CNN's head is quite accurate.
For the record, I think he should be allowed to grow old and embittered and live to the last of his days with the haunting memory of a cell and his own murderous nature. Execution would be too merciful.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| and once again we have the "CNN" version. Just like how they "spilled out into the streets" to welcome the U.S. invaders...or all the other cheering that happens on CNN "from" Iraq. |
Ddeubel: if you have other information, information that contradicts this CNN report, please present it.
Otherwise, you are doing your usual knee-jerk, drone-like, overly cynical, sneering, antiEstablishment, temper-tantrum routine. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: CNN Is Reporting Saddam Hussein... |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| has been sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity. |
Cool-too bad he won't be stoned to death, but it's pretty good |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| But he has been like the Romanovs since he was captured. For political reasons, for Iraqi stability (if it is ever going to come), he really can't be permitted to live. |
So he should be killed for political and expedient reasons???? That sounds like something outside the law.
He should be allowed to live, precisely because he is "of history" and a reminder of where they were. A symbol, a living symbol of pain. Too easy to shoot/hang and put it under the rug. A society has to go through this process, this long process of reconciliation with the past, if it wants any chance of "maturing". To just kill Saddam, will appear ONLY as the conquerors victory, not an Iraqi one......no matter the reality.
So I think you are wrong, even in terms of how his death will be "useful".
DD |
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