Saddam assumes room temperature
12.30.06So there really is justice in the world… even if it’s a little slow in the coming. Lord knows it woulda been even slower if he had been in the care of bleeding hearts in hollywood.
I was at the Stampede last night, a honky tonk in Temecula California, when they stopped the dancing to announce that Saddam was currently assuming room temperature. The crowd cheered and the DJ put on Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” while everyone removed their hats and pointed at the American flag hanging above the dance floor.
For more detailed info, be sure to read the Hot Air blog. They’re always on top of things.
I dunno about you guys, but I still wanna see the complete video of Saddam. Maybe it’ll come out.
Update » Found The Whole Execution! At the bottom!
Before
After
Why We Did This
Because we all know how short the memory is of a liberal.
WARNING: Graphic.
Even now, Saddam died a much too quick and painless death. I don’t care what you guys say… torture was called for. But nothing is worse than the fact that Saddam is suffering beyond your imagination in a place we call hell.
View the Whole Exectution.
Why wasn’t Saddam tried for the gassing of the Kurds—the crimes showed in that video?
# December 30th, 2006 at 3:05 pmBecause he was already executed for the previous crime of killing 148 Shiite Muslims from Dujail in 1982. Thats my guess. Too bad you can only kill him once.
# December 30th, 2006 at 6:11 pmHAHA … you know what was not what I meant.
Why was he tried for killing 148 Shiites instead of tried for gassing at least 500 Kurds, which is one of his more horrific singular crimes, the one which he is known best for, the one which is most often used as an example of how much of an evil man he was?
# December 30th, 2006 at 8:49 pm(That was supposed to say 5000, not 500)
# December 30th, 2006 at 8:57 pmBecause the US and British Governtment explicitly supported him while he was gassing the Kurds, look at the hands which are shaking here: http://www.industrialandmarine.com/rumsfeld_saddam.png
# December 31st, 2006 at 10:26 amPicture taken 1983.
15 March 1988 60,000 Kurds gassed in Habalja, 6 months later the US gave $1 billion in aid direct to Hussein. It didn’t seem to worry them too much then I suppose.
Yeah, it is too bad that we can’t hang him a couple times, because in about two weeks the effect of this thing (if it had any real effect to begin with) will have worn off, and we’ll still be trying to figure out how exactly we’re going to replace Saddam Hussein with some kind of functioning government in Iraq within the next half century.
Congrats Chad, you got your pound of flesh, can we end this nightmare now please? (Allow me to answer my own question: No, we can’t.)
# December 31st, 2006 at 12:56 pmTell you what, Donn. Next time do some research before regurgitating a lie you read on the interweb. We met with Saddam around 83 to help him in his gassing of Iran… which I’m pretty sure most folks are fine with.
# December 31st, 2006 at 12:59 pmSimon - You’re right…. there’s no point in dishing out justice to a human-rights criminal, war criminal, rapist, murder, etc. We shoulda let him live, and stick with the fine job he was doing.
Try looking past your own nose.
# December 31st, 2006 at 1:00 pmIf he was tried in America, sentencing would have been postponed until his next trial (the Kurd gasing) could be completed. But he wasn’t tried in America… this decision to execute him before his next trial was a Iraqi decision. I respect their sovereign right to carry out their own sentencing the way they see fit.
From what I hear they can technically still have the trial without the presence of Saddam.
# January 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pmI just saw this at the Texican Tattler. I had a good laugh.
# January 1st, 2007 at 12:47 pm
cheers to the dead tyrant
# January 1st, 2007 at 3:34 pmlooks like he finally got the ‘hang’ of justice BWHAHAAAA
Oh goodie!
I didn’t know we were now making it our business to fix everyone else on earth’s governmental problems!
Since we’ve managed to fix things up so nice in Iraq, I think it’s high time we moved on to a few of those other questionable characters. What do you say we start with the Parade Magazine Top 10 Worst Dictators, and work our way down the list?
http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/worstdictators.html
The point is Chad, we didn’t go for Saddam because he was a mean guy, because there are plenty of other meaner guys to go for (my personal favorite is Robert Mugabe), we went for him because our government decided to make it look like he was some sort of major threat to us, when in fact he was just another megalomaniac jerk, in charge of a country that, without his brutal rule, has effectively ceased to exist.
Now I’m as thrilled as anyone that we managed to catch and hang this clown, but unless Iraq ends up in a better state then it was, it accomplishes very little.
And while the court brought about the verdict, and the judge and all them were Iraqi, it’s pretty obviously American controlled… (not that this is a bad thing)
# January 1st, 2007 at 4:39 pmHaha. good one. Obviously we should make sure that the president knows which ones to go for first.
If you haven’t noticed, we don’t make it our business to clean up THE WHOLE WORLD. This doesn’t really need to be said, as it is common knowledge. But we do know that we can take Saddam out with relative ease and extremely minimal losses…. so we did. Taking on N Korea would be alot more devestating, and then you libs would realize what REAL war casualties are.
It amazes me how so many people don’t even know “the point”.
# January 2nd, 2007 at 1:10 pmI will be REALLY SATISFIED when I see Osama and friends hanging (or being fryed or cut to pieces and pissed over or whatever)…
# January 2nd, 2007 at 1:29 pmI don’t know how well u guys know chad, but I think I know him good enough to say he won’t ever admit he’s wrong when it comes to America, or other countries,or religion, or movies…………or…..anything.
Scenario- If chad said carrots were dangerous, I would say,”no chad….I don’t think so”, He would furiously respond with crazy theories and show me stuff on the internet about how carrots are shaped like spears and how I’m a dirty lib.
Chad’s a full blown Idahoan, American, redneck bad*ss…..not some whiny, little, rebel, punker kid from Oceanside, California.
chad and I have been in a few arguements before. I’ve learn’t my lesson now and I will never argue with him ever again………..ever. We get along pretty good with this strategy.:wink:
P.S.-Call me for Beer’s sometime. We should watch that season one DVD. :beer:Cheers:beer:
# January 2nd, 2007 at 9:15 pmYeah, this was a really smart move. Who are the real winners from this? The Shias, the Iranians and, by default, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We were better off with a contained Saddam - the Sunnis are pussycats compared to the nutcase Shias. The US made the SAME mistake in Afghanistan - backing Osama against the ‘red menace’. Look what happened there! How long before we realise our enemy’s enemy isn’t always our friend?
# January 3rd, 2007 at 3:05 amThe biggest war in Iraq has never been the military one. We swept through there in no time, with very little trouble. The fight is political - to make iraq’s government a better one than that which we removed. everyone was aware that this would be part of the bargain if we invaded, but nobody planned for it.
So we took over a country in the middle of the middle east and only later discovered, to our apparent surprise, that there would be political “instability”.:???:
# January 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 amIm just saying this to anyone who made/is planning on making the argument that WE should not have killed Saddam: WE did NOT kill Saddam, the Iraqis killed Saddam. They tried him in THEIR court and hung him by THEIR verdict.
# January 3rd, 2007 at 5:33 pmYeah Van Zant, we had absolutely nothing to do with it did we?
I mean apart from removing him from power, scouring the country for him, pulling him out of his spiderhole, guarding him in prison, establishing the court system, guarding the courthouse, and basically everything except for actually putting the noose around his neck, we weren’t even involved! But I think our involvement in the actual trial/punishment of Hussein was a good thing, for what is worth. Trouble is, it’s not worth much.
# January 4th, 2007 at 3:44 pmWe found him, but we werent part of the actual trial or the hanging (actually, had we been, Saddam probably could have apealed til he was 90)
Removing him from power was our idea, his punishment was theirs, we just made it possible for him to be punished.
# January 5th, 2007 at 5:48 amOk if you need to convince yourself that we werent responsible to sleep well at night or something then you can act like Saddam’s death isn’t on our hands. Personally, it doesn’t bother me… but I don’t really think it’s time for “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” and celebration either. Saddam’s punishment was a great show to watch, and everyone involved, including Saddam, seems to have enjoyed themselves, except perhaps for the three dead defense attorneys, but Iraq is still an unqualified catastrophe.
# January 5th, 2007 at 12:40 pmWhy does everyone seem to be making the argument that we should have let a tyrranical, murdering, psychopathic, megalomaniac dictator who gassed his people, tried and failed to take over Kuwait (Oh thats right, we stopped him and probably should have finished him then), live after we captured him and the Iraqi’s killed him. Did we play a part in his death? Yes. But did we try him, sentence him or put the noose around his neck? No.
# January 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pmold saddam had it coming but why don’t we know what he knew about Bush and the business world of mass murder?
to bad it was not live.
# January 7th, 2007 at 5:40 pm