Perhaps paradoxically hanging Saddam by the neck until his worthless life is ended will save the lives of many. The Arab Moslem is primitive in that respect; and will continue the cowardly murder of innocents until their fuhrer is put down.

Posted by: Lance at November 5, 2006 5:46 AM

we're looking forward to Robert posting the latest Military Times editorial: 'Time for Rumsfeld to go'.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2333360.php

Posted by: protectalbion at November 5, 2006 5:48 AM

Saddam sentenced to death..

Wellcome endless series of worldwide attacks (including the good old USA)!

Wellcome a new wave of bloodbath all over Iraq, starting with the US marines!

Instead of locking him up for perpetuity and thus comdemning his name and his evil deeds to oblivion, the so-called independent justice system in Iraq (with the backing of the US naturally) has opted for creating a new hero out of his name.

You can bet your life that even his arch-enemy Iran will build monuments to honor his actions.
Certainly his name will be added to a list of muslim martyrs by the fundamentalists.

Wellcome globalized moronism !

Posted by: Icarus_Project at November 5, 2006 5:56 AM

I sure will miss him!
/ sarcasm off!

Posted by: Gramfan at November 5, 2006 6:01 AM

Justice has been served.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at November 5, 2006 6:16 AM

people like this piece of work "U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark," along with the ACULU, Nancy Pelosi, Ried, majority of Demorats, have tied the hands of any work down on the US's fight on any terrorist. this Clark is as bad at spreading the message of "hate America" as the peanut farmer JimmyCarter!

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at November 5, 2006 6:26 AM

What has this got to do with the struggle against Jihad? Actually Saddam did the western world a great favor in taming the Shias in southern Iraq and making sure that Iraq didn't become too Islamic. Now that he is gone things have taken a turn for the worse. And now the tribunal is about to make a martyr out of him... Somehow I don't feel like celebrating right now.

Posted by: seville844 at November 5, 2006 6:29 AM

Common thieves were hanged in olde England. Same is what Saddam should get. Though I will say he sure had the Shiite's number and knew how to reign in these loonies. He gave them the pain + martyrdom they crave. One of the great symbiotic relationships

Posted by: dennisw at November 5, 2006 6:32 AM

>>>You can bet your life that even his arch-enemy Iran will build monuments to honor his actions>>>

Absolutely,Icarus.
Under the crafty guidance of saudi monarch shias and sunnis recently signed a covenant to bury their differences and band together to fight the "last battle".islimes periodically rant the West is responsible(sic) for fissures among the *peace loving muslime brotherhood*.

Posted by: Crows&Cows at November 5, 2006 6:38 AM

I'm so excited, I just can't hide it!

Now hang the bastard Oz-style.

Posted by: EliasAlucard at November 5, 2006 6:43 AM

Does this really atone for all the horror that he and his clan have visited on Iraq. How many remember the video of Sadam sitting smugly smoking a cigar at the Baathist party conference in 1979, reading from a prepared list of names, as each name was read out the person had to leave the room, it was a long list. These were the last pictures of these men, none were ever seen again alive. How many people know that he personally shot one of his minister who disagreed with him. He very nearly killed one of his sons, I think it was Uday, for killing his valet with a baseball bat. Then of cause we must not forget the gassing of the Kurds. His hanging, public or otherwise, and the trial, have for me been nothing more than a macabre piece of theather, in one of the worlds longest running horror shows. Will it stop? I doubt it. He ruled like Chaka Zulu not by fear but pure terror, he ruled too long and the poison of his rule has gone too deep Hanging this man, however much he deserves it, will do nothing to stop this country sinking deep into civil war. In ten years time this will be no more than an historical footnote in a history book.

Posted by: Holger Dansker at November 5, 2006 6:47 AM

Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!"(*

- Wow... exactly what I would say. That is exactly what this verdict delivered.

Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at November 5, 2006 6:51 AM

Hope they hang him on that great big crane that he used to hang his enmies.

Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at November 5, 2006 6:53 AM

Hope they hang him on that great big crane that he used to hang his enmies.

Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at November 5, 2006 6:54 AM

So will the Iraqis now stop killing each other and coalition troops in gratitude for bringing Saddam to justice? Hmmmmmmmm..

Posted by: Celsius at November 5, 2006 7:01 AM

Seville844: Sodom Insane actually did have something to do with the global jihad. He paid the families of Falastin suicide bombers $25K each. When OBL was holed up in Sudan during the 1990's, his people were in touch with Sodom's embassy in Khartoum often. Further, during the First Gulf War, he was talking with every terrorist band from the Irish Republican Army to the Japanese Red Army Faction to the Moro Liberation Front (with all the Islamicist bands in between) to get people to hit soft coalition targets anywhere in the world. He was a link between the older Leftwing terror and the new Islamicist terror. The man did indeed deserve to hand. May God have mercy on his soul (while I am one who believes that there is no divine justice if there is no Hell, I am also one to shudder at it).

Posted by: Kepha at November 5, 2006 7:04 AM

"So will the Iraqis now stop killing each other and coalition troops in gratitude for bringing Saddam to justice? Hmmmmmmmm.."
Posted by: Celsius
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Doubtful. They'll probably kill each other a lot more than they're doing now.

Posted by: EliasAlucard at November 5, 2006 7:05 AM

Crows&Cows,

"Under the crafty guidance of saudi monarch shias and sunnis recently signed a covenant to bury their differences and band together to fight the "last battle".islimes periodically rant the West is responsible(sic) for fissures among the *peace loving muslime brotherhood*.

A URL link please so I can see if there is any info to refer to. Thanks.

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at November 5, 2006 7:20 AM

Sadam will be gone - GOD willing! What does that mean for our service folks fighting in Iraq? Is the worse to come or is it over? Are there still unknow unknowns that we may have to deal with? How many known unknowns that we have to still take care of? How many known knowns that we should handle?

My motto - lets leave Iraqi infested swamps for the Jihadies to battle each other out. We should not get involved in the Civil war in that area.

Does anyone here know how many oil wells in Iraq are still on fire?

Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at November 5, 2006 7:29 AM

Kepha wrote: "..Sodom Insane actually did have something to do with the global jihad. He paid the families of Falastin suicide bombers $25K each..."

O you refer to that PR-stunt? Saddam has never been much of a devoted muslim, but he always had the ambition of leading the arab world and paying money to the palestinian suicide terrorists was a great way of claiming to be the hero.

"When OBL was holed up in Sudan during the 1990's, his people were in touch with Sodom's embassy in Khartoum often."

It's a well established fact that S.H. did NOT have strong ties with Al Quaida and that Bush lied about it.

"Further, during the First Gulf War, he was talking with every terrorist band from the Irish Republican Army to the Japanese Red Army Faction to the Moro Liberation Front (with all the Islamicist bands in between) to get people to hit soft coalition targets anywhere in the world."

I'd call that the desperate selfdefence of a cornered rat. Not all terrorism is connected to the global Jihad. What you say here certainly hasn't got anything to do with Islam.

"He was a link between the older Leftwing terror and the new Islamicist terror."

What a fantasy construction. If he was in any way a terrorist, then you can call him a state terrorist, that is a man terrorizing his own peopel. But internationally speaking he was never the devil that the American propaganda machine made him out to be.

Posted by: seville844 at November 5, 2006 8:20 AM

The dude had a smidgen of good old fashioned Ataturk in him. When you're dealing with children, supervise them; when you're supervising bad children, discipline & control them without remorse.

I sure am gonna miss Saddam. He's the best one can expect from a delusional megalomaniac; he made himself the best he could be, which was pretty bad, but, after all, he was a Moslem Arab, so let's lower the bar, shall we?

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at November 5, 2006 8:23 AM

Great. Victory! Now lets get our troops out of there ASAP.

Posted by: tokyobk at November 5, 2006 8:24 AM

saddam said he will die with honor and no fear...

that's why we found that pu$$y hiding in a hole--

i hope the hanging will be televised...

the US needs to send copies of the video to the leaders of Iran, NKorea and Venezuela.

Posted by: religion of(blown to)pieces at November 5, 2006 8:44 AM

People tend to get the leadership they deserve.

Saddam was an ambitious man who rose to the top because of his ability to govern. He was removed from power by a foreign influence.

Hopefully the $300 million dollars we spend in Iraq today will include some money for a management consultant to interview Saddam. It would be nice to know how he kept order in Iraq for a couple decades.

Posted by: limes at November 5, 2006 8:50 AM

Bigcatgirl,

The following was written by a columnist in Daily Pioneer:

" While it is too early to gauge the impact of this largely ignored initiative by King Abdullah, the fact that Iraq's Shia and Sunni clerics recently met in Mecca and signed a covenant to end sectarian strife in that tormented nation is momentous. Formally organised by the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the meeting is an important step in uniting the faithful as a prelude...........

The covenant follows King Abdullah's disapproval of Iraq's growing sectarian violence, and belies Western hopes that Saudi fears of increased Iranian influence over Baghdad's new Shia elite would accentuate Shia-Sunni rifts in other Muslim countries as well. Far from fearing the assertive Shia elites of Tehran and Baghdad, Riyadh has dexterously recruited them as partners in Islam's last battle for dignity on the world stage".

The columnist however has been courting islam as many of the so called *Hinduism protecting* people do glossing over vital facts.Many of the hindutva peddlers rave and rant about evangelization but resort to negationism when it comes to islam.The particular passage posted above alone is of consequence.Rest is outrageously absurd.The link:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=jain%2Fjain101%2Etxt&writer=jain

Karbala to Mecca

Posted by: Crows&Cows at November 5, 2006 8:55 AM

Ingratitude of moslems towards non muslims is lost sight of by the latter.Be it afghanisthan,iraq or any country they only pretend to be friendly to wangle money and material assistance. Would never hesitate to kill in return with zombiesque disdain for our gullibility.

Posted by: Crows&Cows at November 5, 2006 9:21 AM

"Justice has been served"

He's not swinging yet...

Posted by: Elephant in my Coffee at November 5, 2006 10:14 AM

Yes, indeed it is a false hope that the Shiites and Sunnis would ever stop their sectarian violence and work together to build a united Iraq, much like Arabs and Jews ever stop fighting against each other, and work together to build a peaceful Middle Peace. By the time people know that, Arabs and Jews have been fighting for two thousands of years, and both call each other evils. Radical people on each side would kill their leaders if they think and do otherwise. The trend speaks louder than any individual’s opinion.

A Wall Street money manager would see this Saddam verdict as "buy the rumor, sell the fact." It is time to stop talking about it. There is nothing new anymore about it.

Posted by: kung fu fighter at November 5, 2006 11:25 AM

Will Clark get hung too? He should be for defending this guy when he knew he was guilty.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at November 5, 2006 12:34 PM

Re: Ramsey Clark

The thought of that moment -- of Clark being ejected from the courtroom -- being shown on the news makes this the first time I've ever seriously considered acquiring TiVo.

Record... replay... rewind... replay...

Posted by: MarisolJW at November 5, 2006 1:17 PM

seville844:

Your moonbattery is showing.

Posted by: atheling at November 5, 2006 2:31 PM

seville844:

Your moonbattery is showing.
Posted by: atheling

Spoken like a true Wingnut..

The left may have their morons like Ramsey, Ward and Lynne Stewart, but the right has more than their share..like almost the entire component.

Posted by: Nariz at November 5, 2006 5:08 PM

I think I had better explain to our American readers, Albert Pierrepoint was the state executioner in Britain before during and after the Second World war. I thing he used to get £25 per person hung and got to keep the rope. He didn't get to make a fortune but he seem to have made enough out of all the war criminals he hung, he hung over 600 to open a Pub near Blackpool in northern England. The name of the pub was call "Help The Poor Struggler" and not the “The Last Drop” as some people have suggested. He is said though to have hung a notice in the pub saying “No hanging around the bar”. Gallow humour if ever there was any.

Posted by: Holger Dansker at November 5, 2006 5:19 PM

I know I'm in the minority here but I consider this a great travesty. Saddam protected Christians, Mandeans, and Yezidis, and even let his daughter convert to Christianity without objection. He clearly did not believe in Islam and that's why he was so hated.

Sure he was a thug, but so are most Arab leaders. Violence and mass-murder are the only way to rule a Muslim country effectively. I also suspect that after he is dead, the Sunnis will somehow transform him into a martyr as if he was one of them all along.

Posted by: Provoslavni at November 5, 2006 10:40 PM

Provoslavni:

"He clearly did not believe in Islam and that's why he was so hated.

Sure he was a thug, but so are most Arab leaders. Violence and mass-murder are the only way to rule a Muslim country effectively".

Accurate assessment. He was the only Arab who supported India on Kashmir. Many Indians who lived in Iraq prior to invasion of Kuwait have only positive reports about Saddam Hussein and his reign. Kuwaitis were routinely driving across to relax and have a good time as Iraq alone was "liberal" under him.

Posted by: Crows&Cows at November 6, 2006 2:42 AM

Let's set our sights on the next Saddam. Let's move on.

Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at November 6, 2006 10:18 AM