NBC News: Saddam Hussein to be hanged within 36 hours.

[Roon]

Breaking on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

[fujiyama]

1. Well that's quick

[PCIntern]

3. Yeah...

not like here with appeal after appeal. Reminds me of the movie...

"Sure you get a trial. First we give you a trial and THEN we hang you."

Although not many tears shed here...that's for sure. The biggest problem will be coming up with someone who ws as good as he wsa in managing the country. Perhaps Ghenghis Khan or one fo the Star Trek villains...

[tchunter]

40. KHAN!!!!!!!!!!

...sorry, i just had too, yeah, i wonder if the troops had prep time and were aware of this, because things might get ugly...



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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

41. SADDAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!

[Monkeyman]

Sunday hmmm when Bush given his new plan for Iraq??

[Duer 157099]

2. Business hours or clock hours

it's so confusing

[Drum]

47. lol

:D

[musiclawyer]

4. They're afraid he's gonna talk more

and embarrass people

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Ya got that right: dead men tell no tales

This just reeks of a coverup, but that's not too surprising. I hope he's come clean somewhere about all of the ugly dealings he's been a part of with us, but since he still clings to the hope of being some pan-arab hero, he may not have.

Truly, this is an accurate representation of the gangsterism of this country, and it is highly suspicious to anyone watching it. We suck.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Their version of "democracy" only works when they can't be held accountable

for their actions. What he knows about them, from personal experience, is a threat they want to eliminate, as soon as possible.

[theHandpuppet]

45. I think you're spot on

"Dead men tell no tales," as the saying goes.

[David Dunham]

5. Mre US troops will be killed in retaliation.

[shance]

11. By the so called "Insurgents". Tell us, who are these insurgents?

Dollar to a doughnut they aren't Iraqis.

And if they are Iraqis, who is arming them??

[matcom]

17. "insurgents"??

sorry. that IS the gov't WOD for "Iraqis"

when the invasion hits here, YOU will be labled an "insurgent"

get ready

[parasim]

6. I can just see our Georgie boy...

... dancing around singin', "I'm not gonna let Saddam step foot into 2007! La la la la la, la!" Yeah, that's the ticket... heh heh heh!

[hwmnbn]

7. I thought they weren't going to announce it..........

keep it hush hush so as not to incite demonstrations. I guess that plan is no longer operative. If it's on MSNBC, then it's on Al Jazeera.

[marshall]

20. Will Al Jazeera air it?

I know our television stations would be fined out of existence if they aired it, but will Al Jazeera air a death if it doesn't involve sawing off somebody's head with a dull kitchen knife?

[Kagemusha]

22. Hey, if Iraq sends Al Jazeera a video to prove Saddam's really dead,

yeah, they might well air it - how is it not news? How is it not?

[Kagemusha]

21. Guess the need for public bloodlust is too great.

They just can't help themselves.

[Solly Mack]

9. Probably already dead and the announcement will come within the next 36 hours

[shance]

12. You may be right.

n/t

[shance]

10. Quick!! Kill more of the truth!!

Amazing.

Sickening.

[seriousstan]

13. I hope he dances for a good long time.

http://www.hauntershangout.com/graphics/projects/santahangman/santahangman.AVI

[noel adamson]

26. I would prefer he had been allowed to sing...

... the ballad of Don Rumsfeld and the story of how our government supplied Saddam with the WMDs, the intelligence with which they targeted their victims etc.

[seriousstan]

30. So I guess al the years between Iraq war 1 and 2 weren't enough time?

You really believe he wouldn't have jumped at the chance to twist a knife in the Bush's backs if he had beens to spill?

[JanusAscending]

14. I'm against Capital Punishment,

but the thing that bugs me the most is they're making a martyr of him. I wonder if this will give bush the "joy" that he's seeking?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. It'll serve 2 purposes...

1) He gets his revenge.
2) He prolongs the war.

[mikelgb]

15. for fucks sake

I KNEW they would not get to the other charges that would bring out embarrassing support from US

[matcom]

16. its a NEW YEAR'S EVE Celebratiiiiiiiioooooonnnnnnn

:eyes:

[daleo]

23. Maybe Dick Clarke can have a countdown

And a giant effigy of Saddam can be lowered at midnight. Bush might like that.

[qanda]

18. Good riddance

But I wish they would let him live out his pitiful life. Death is too good for some people.

[progressivebydesign]

24. THIS is why Bush is holed up in Crawford, isn't it???

Motherfucka is sitting there giving the BIG PR push that he's "fixing" Iraq, because he knows all hell will break loose any minute now over there. As if December wasn't a horribly deadly month for our troops already. What's the rush on the hanging? Hey, Saddam is a bad guy, no doubt. But isn't there usually some sort of.. I don't know.. appeals process for a death penalty? It just amazes me that someone who was a friend to the U.S. when Poppy and Ronnie were in power, is getting the death penalty for things we encouraged and helped finance. Wierd shit.

[Monkeyman]

27. Orders to Deploy are going out

Jan 7th looks like he is going to do it. More Troops to Iraq

[superconnected]

29. yep, must stop saddam because he could use nukes on us.

Oh yeah, saddams about to die.... uh, why are we in iraq again?

[Raine]

25. The execution, buried among

the New Year celebrations and the death and funeral of President Ford, seems to work out just perfect for Chimpie. Not that I will shed any tears for Saddam but this is sure a good way to shut him up.

[Xipe Totec]

28. I once made a bet that we would not invade Iraq,

because it was such an unbelievably stupid move, I could not imagine the US government ever doing it.

Even with an imbecile at the helm, I thought, the White House is bluffing; this is pure brinkmanship. Saddam folded like a house of cards; agreed to every demand placed on him by the US.

Surely, I thought, we will declare victory and leave Kuwait without ever stepping on Iraqi soil or firing a single shot.

This is brilliant! - I thought - A beautiful show of force, resulting in a humiliated Saddam backing down.

For a moment, I had grudging admiration for the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, even though he was from "the other party"

And then, we invaded...

Now, we're getting ready to hang Saddam.

This is such an unbelievably stupid move. If there were any smart money left on the table, the bet would be that his sentence would be commuted. Let him rot in jail until his power and influence dissipates completely; until nobody remembers his name.

Now, I'm not so sure. Now, I'm thinking we're actually going to hang Saddam. Now I'm thinking we're actually going to make a martyr out of this thug.

It won't be Iraq's puppet government that will be blamed for this. It will be the US government; our government that will be held accountable by history.

We are about to give the Sunnis the martyr they need to coalesce into a permanent resistance force.

And we haven't a clue what we are about to do to ourselves.

[bookman]

31. Saber Rattling

Saber Rattling ....

.... that's what a friend said before the war. Unfortunately Bush isn't that smart.

[Ian David]

32. But there isn't even an election this month! WTF??? n/t

[atomicdawg38]

33. I would bet..

He has already been hanged.

[goforit]

34. Unbelievable!!!!

[ckramer]

35. Execution of Saddam is against law

What law?

International law.

[VegasWolf]

36. I hope this execution drives Bush completely fucking nuts. Revenge never provides

the emotional "high" sick bastards like Bush are always striving for.

[anotherdrew]

51. may bush be haunted mad by saddam's ghost n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

37. I heard he was always hung.

:evilgrin:

[originalpckelly]

38. Sad enough, this might be the only good thing to come out of Iraq...

sad. It may even make violence worse!

[IndianaGreen]

39. Bush and Cheney should be hung under the same legal standard as Saddam

Bush and Cheney have killed more Iraqi civilians in 3 years than Saddam did in 20 years.

HRW and Amnesty International have condemned the Saddam trial as a kangaroo court. Why should we afford Bush and Cheney the legal rights they denied everyone else. They should be tried by a people's court and once they are inevitably found guilty of war crimes, they should be promptly executed.

[spacelady]

43. It's Opposite World! Up is Down! War Is Peace! Saddam is Hung!

George is Not!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Marcos wasn't executed...

Nor was Pinochet.

Why Saddam?

[sofa king]

46. ...And all of his victims will magically rise from their graves.

George W. Bush has killed, impoverished, and displaced more Iraqis in three and a half years than Saddam Hussein killed in a quarter century of "brutal" dictatorship.

I put "brutal" in quotes because if Saddam is going to hang for what he did, well... what does that make us?

[DemGa]

48. I think killing caged people is murder

No one had to teach me that either.

[Justitia]

49. Wow. Look at America today. Executing the leaders of sovereign nations.

How many does this make? Is he the first? I know we've always been in on some really dirty coups and such, but is this our first out-and-out execution of a sovereign nation's president? A nation that did nothing to us?

I just went to an exhibit today, celebrating the 300th b-day of Benjamin Franklin, The Greatest American. I'm so sorry Ben, I'm sure you never saw this one coming - I know I never did.
From Benjamin Franklin to George W. Bush, executor of other sovereign nation's presidents. For a grudge, for revenge, for macho posturing.

The cognitive dissonance is wreaking havoc with my brain.

We are so very, very far down the rabbit hole.

[Codeine]

52. To be fair

the Iraqis are executing him. The Iraq war has been a horrible affront to international law and common decency, but Saddam isn't worth getting too sad over.

[Justitia]

54. Please be serious. He is (was) in American custody, in an American prison, on an American base,

will be hung from an American built gallow, etc., etc.

If the Iraqis were REALLY the ones doing this, why did they have to wait for AMERICA to take him into our physical possession? I mean, they had decades before we showed up.

To say it's the Iraqis executing him is a really bad joke.
No one anywhere in the world believes that besides some Americans who simply HAVE to believe it or crack from cognitive dissonance.

And it's not Saddam I'm sad over, who gives a shit about him?
It's AMERICA that will suffer most and longest - for shame.

[VegasWolf]

61. Exactly, and it's NOT the "Iraqis" doing this, it's one of the sectarian groups,

the Shiites, in the Iraqi Civil War. The "Iraqis" is code for the Bush puppet government there which does not have much longer to be in existence.

[anotherdrew]

50. FWIW, I'd rather they not do this... n/t

[OneBlueSky]

53. the invasion was a crime of immense proportions . . . so is this execution . . .

what gives the U.S. the right to invade another sovereign nation and capture and execute its head of state -- when that nation and head of state neither attacked us nor threatened our national security? . . .

what gives us the right to do this??? . . . certainly not international law -- which in fact specifically prohibits what we've done to that country . . .

and besides being a crime, this execution is also a massively bone-headed move that will surely inflame Iraqi passions -- and cost even more American lives . . . and more Iraqi lives . . .

the only reason the execution is happening with such urgency is to prevent Saddam from telling what he knows about other U.S. crimes over the past several decades -- evidence tampering at it's most extreme . . .

[BreweryYardRat]

55. Good riddance.

Saddam was a mass murdering bastard, and I'm not going to miss him. However, this is going to drive the Sunni insurgents absolutely nuts and probably get a lot more of our troops killed. Which is why I'd prefer the Hague do it.

[saigon68]

56. Sorry No death Penalty at the Hague

That is why they didn't want him telling stories of how reagun and Rumsfeld gave him nerve gas to use on the Ayatollah in 1984

[leesa]

57. Destroy the evidence. The Bush Crime Family way.

[robcon]

58. Is NBC "hanging out" (sorry for the pun) on this story?

I haven't found any other outlet that agrees that he's scheduled to be killed by this weekend.

I think his death will be a positive development in Iraq.

[TheWatcher]

59. Well Come on folks, you know why this has to be done so quick

This is the only way Bush and the Ghouls running our government can achieve any sort of sexual excitement, so they have to be able to get off for the New Year.

[BeachBuckeye]

60. Odd isn't it?

No interviews with reporters from CNN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC? One would think that the Western media would have a chance to talk to him. Oh, I forgot, he knows too much. Waaaaaaay too much.

[ama]

62. Iraqi law excludes people over 70 from death penalty.

So they have to be quick saddam turns 70 on 28 april
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/21/content_3660123.htm

[Vinca]

63. I was hoping the president of Iraq would pardon him.

The reaction from Shrub would be priceless.

[puffthemagicdragon]

64. I am against the Death Penalty

whether it is Saddam or Ted Bundy period.

[KamaAina]

65. Remember how many doubles Saddam is said to have used?

They better make sure they're executing the real thing! I don't suppose Northwestern has a branch campus over there?

Props to recovering (R) cubicle mate who thought of this but is too chicken to post it on his own DU account :-)

[ckramer]

66. Looks like the current Iraqi government has determinated to have a

CIVIL WAR!