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Reports: Saddam executed in Baghdad

Started by Blue Devil, December 29, 2006, 10:31:42 PM

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Blue Devil

December 29, 2006, 10:31:42 PM
From Yahoo News:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.

A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam's execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said U.S. courts do not have jurisdiction to interfere in another country's judicial process. The ruling can be appealed, but it was issued within an hour of the time Iraqi officials said they expected the execution to be carried out.

The whole article can be found here

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fonkaygarry

#1
December 29, 2006, 10:37:40 PM
Saddam permabanned!?!?

FUCKEN BULLSHIT D00D I'M GOIN TO TT TO GIVE THE MODS A PIECE OF MY FUCKEN MIND
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Samarkand

#2
December 29, 2006, 10:48:35 PM
I know the war that lead to his ouster was done under false pretexts and mismanaged.

  I know the trial was politically manipulated, probably slanted, and not exactly Justice at Nuremburg quality.

  I know that there's arguments that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld should stand in the dock and that Saddam was only killed so he couldn't testify against them.

   But eff it.

*clears throat*

"ooooohhh....I'm dancing on air...."


    Assalam al-frickin-laikhum, you goddamn dead turd.  I hope it was a short drop and a long twitch.
 

Sosthenes

#3
December 29, 2006, 11:12:36 PM
I wonder which starlet's bajingo will be required to get that from the front page...

On a more serious note, I feel oddly untouched by that result. I'm generally not a big fan of the death penalty, but this one wasn't even all that well done from a pure publicity point of view. Meh.
 

beejazz

#4
December 30, 2006, 12:01:56 AM
Yeah. I wanna see some videos.

Otherwise, it's old news.

Dominus Nox

#5
December 30, 2006, 06:15:21 AM
Yeah, the guys at fox news were praactically jerking off in anticipation over saddam's execution....

Woo hoo! Another glorious victory for der grofaz.....
RPGPundit is a fucking fascist asshole and a hypocritial megadouche.

Samarkand

#6
December 30, 2006, 07:09:53 AM
Quote from: SosthenesI'm generally not a big fan of the death penalty, but this one wasn't even all that well done from a pure publicity point of view. Meh.


    You know, you're right.  Public impalement has way better production value.  Heck, I would have just settled for his head set on a spike for all to see.  Sometimes the real old ways are the best.
 

droog

#7
December 30, 2006, 06:52:35 PM
Note to self: do not accept help from CIA.
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James McMurray

#8
December 30, 2006, 06:58:28 PM
Yeah, because it was definitely the help from the CIA that damned him, not the running of political prisoners through shredders as an intimidation tactic (or any of the other atrocities commited on his watch).

beejazz

#9
December 30, 2006, 07:01:54 PM
Obviously. It's not like we gave a shit about said atrocities when they started.

TonyLB

#10
December 30, 2006, 07:15:14 PM
If anything, the advice is more like "Do not assume, because the CIA is helping you, that they don't find you horrific and hope to see you dead very soon."

But ... I mean ... that advice borders on the obvious, right?
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beejazz

#11
December 30, 2006, 07:21:32 PM
Advice not to trust the CIA?

Yeah, that's fairly obvious.

James McMurray

#12
December 30, 2006, 07:33:44 PM
Quote from: beejazzObviously. It's not like we gave a shit about said atrocities when they started.

As long as you don't include me in that "we." I personally cared about the atrocities, but not being a professional multinational hitman there wasn't much I could do. :)

beejazz

#13
December 30, 2006, 07:38:45 PM
Meh. By this I only mean that the politics behind this whole business is pretty atrocious. I really doubt Saddam's atrocities are what put him at odds with the U.S.

laffingboy

#14
December 30, 2006, 08:48:21 PM
Quote from: beejazzMeh. By this I only mean that the politics behind this whole business is pretty atrocious. I really doubt Saddam's atrocities are what put him at odds with the U.S.

Depressingly, it's true. Far worse scumbags routinely get a pass (or active support) from my government.
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