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Old 12-29-2006, 06:38 PM   #1
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"The Americans want him to be hanged respectfully," al-Nueimi said. If Saddam is humiliated publicly or his corpse ill-treated "that could cause an uprising and the Americans would be blamed," he said.
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Old 12-29-2006, 06:42 PM   #2
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You cannot be murdered respectfully, especially strangled to death.
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Old 12-29-2006, 08:57 PM   #3
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News reports say that he may be hanged by morning.
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Old 12-29-2006, 05:52 PM   #4
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Apparently it's going to happen in the next three to four hours.
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Old 12-29-2006, 06:45 PM   #5
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So KR, what would you do with him?
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Old 12-29-2006, 06:47 PM   #6
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Life in prison. No outside contact. Answering for KR... don't know who that is.
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Old 12-29-2006, 08:58 PM   #7
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Any minute now.
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Old 12-29-2006, 09:16 PM   #8
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It's been done according to Al Hurra TV; Reuters still waiting for confirmation.
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Old 12-29-2006, 09:30 PM   #9
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Video footage of Saddam's death here.
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Old 12-29-2006, 10:44 PM   #10
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He's swung; another milestone passed, and the world shithead count is down by one. It will be emphasized that Iraqis, Saddam's most numerous victims (a butcher's bill of about a million and a half offed for unpopular political opinions, a hanging offense with dictators everywhere, and quite outside Iraqi military casualties, also extensive), were the ones who took him out. Mutterings about the U.S. pulling the strings are, in the end, of no consequence.

Ba'athist spokesmen have threatened to... continue behaving as badly as before should Saddam be hanged.
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Old 12-30-2006, 12:15 PM   #11
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He's swung; another milestone passed, and the world shithead count is down by one. It will be emphasized that Iraqis, Saddam's most numerous victims (a butcher's bill of about a million and a half offed for unpopular political opinions, a hanging offense with dictators everywhere, and quite outside Iraqi military casualties, also extensive), were the ones who took him out. Mutterings about the U.S. pulling the strings are, in the end, of no consequence.

Ba'athist spokesmen have threatened to... continue behaving as badly as before should Saddam be hanged.
The death of Saddam does absolutely nothing to legitimize this cluster fuck of an illegitimate, unconstitutional, unwarranted, and idiotic war. Saddam was never a danger to America, but George W. Bush is.
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Old 12-31-2006, 10:41 PM   #12
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The death of Saddam does absolutely nothing to legitimize this cluster fuck of an illegitimate, unconstitutional, unwarranted, and idiotic war. Saddam was never a danger to America, but George W. Bush is.
Wrong on all counts, Paul. It's quite constitutional, as the Constitution contains not a word against a President fighting a war without Congressional declaration, as does the hundred-forty-plus historical precedents of the Prez sending the troops in. No one has ever breathed a word of indictment against such action, and it is unlikely ever to start, flexibility in foreign policy being handier than bondage, and the general run of America's enemies aren't exactly libertarians anyway.

For starters, stop calling a campaign within a general war a war of itself. That is intellectually lazy, technically inaccurate (and we all know how you loathe inaccuracy, right?), and a propaganda trope of the anti-American, antipatriot, defeat America now lobby. Not a crew you'd want to associate with if you have any self respect [insert Walt Kelly cowbirds pic here]. Surely you think you have more self respect than I do, Paul! Act, then, like it.

The whelming of an ultra-anti-libertarian creature such as the dictator Saddam is by definition warranted, and moral, and is likely also to be wise. This, Paul, is why I consider my views more libertarian, in the real way, than yours.

He was most particularly a danger to our friends in the region, and in that region, friends are what we want, no? We should not be leaving our friends, however iffy they be, in the lurch. This is what costs us political capital, and I think this not merely profligate, but unconscionable. That we hit Saddam now, instead of waiting for the guy to enlarge into an extra-big threat comparable in percentage of world economy to Hitler's Germany, is simply wisdom. That it's wisdom you can't see isn't a deficiency on my part, but more a demonstration of your inflexible thinking, already pretty well shown in these pages.

At bottom, Paul, W thinks more like you than you'd acknowledge, as did Reagan, also not acknowledged. He does, however, have the responsibility of prosecuting a general war, thrust upon us by bigots who are mad at about two thirds of humanity for not being their brand of Muslim, and at which prosecution I fear our political party would prove miserably incompetent. For the time being.
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Old 01-01-2007, 02:10 PM   #13
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He was most particularly a danger to our friends in the region, and in that region, friends are what we want, no?
Now that is some impressive irony right there.
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Old 01-02-2007, 02:00 AM   #14
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Now that is some impressive irony right there.
No irony. You've given a remarkably incorrect response.
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Old 12-29-2006, 11:18 PM   #15
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The fact that he was hanged with his brother and one other makes it symbolic of the crucifiction of Christ between 2 thieves, since he is a martyr...is there a mathematical equivilent christ=sadam ?
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