Comments on: Report: U.S. Tried To Delay Saddam Hanging

American Ambassador Concerned Execution Was Being Carried Out Too Quickly

[blondmadison]

Comments: What do you think?

I think American Democracy is another word for letus move in using our "Shock and Awe" ammo and we'll kill so many--it ought to make a difference.

We'll kill civilians and blame it on Saddam. We'll get out own troops killed and we'll blame it on Saddam. Iraqi's will kill each other and torture each other and THEY will blame their own behavior on none other than Saddam.

That man has some very broad shoulders to carry everyone's weight on.

When do people, like the "Patriotic" very useful "soldiers" who raped and killed innocent Iraqi civilians and in Abu Graib prison---tortured, purposely humiliated, murdered and mamed Iraqi prisoners? Was that also Saddam?

You can lie all you want oh great america, but that is all you are, liars and murders after contracts for oil and natural resources, not to mention the kick backs on those contracts.

[nothappyatall]

," said Samir al-Obaidi, 48, who attended a Saddam memorial in the Azamiyah neighborhood."


Memorial, protests and grief over a despot who tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people, who even sent the body of a woman's husband back to her in PIECES wrapped up in butcher paper. This guy almost made Hitler look mild.

[nothappyatall]

"The hanging during the Eid al-Adha period (also) contradicts Iraqi and Islamic custom"

Who cares, he's DEAD now- a retroactive late term abortion.

If enough of one side kills the other and enough car bombs go off two things will happen;

1) They will all kill themselves off soon enough
2) There won't be any cars left in Iraq

[one_american]

Isn't it just like a liberal to blame the President when a few stupid fools in the Middle East decide to protest?

Anyone who thinks that Iraq can only be governed by a barbaric despot dictator like Saddam is a fascist at heart.

The only people on earth hoping for civil war in Iraq are American liberals - that way they can blame Bush for yet another thing gone wrong.

Grow up liberals, before your kids do.

[emtak1]

STOP!

Blaming Bush. Its your fault, its my fault, "We the people" remember?

If not we're all ******

The Social Compact, The Iraqi Soverei (Saddam) had with his people was one based on force, because that is what many Iraqi people accept for their government.

We cam in, destroyed that, and replaced it with a timid democracy that maybe millions of Iraqis have little or zero respect for.

The type of government the Iraqis like is one based on natural freedom--freedom of choice determined by force which will, perhaps, determine who gets the power. Many Iraqis dont care about freedom based on democracy or "will o f the people" like in the U.S.

If we aint in this fight to win that power by force--mayeb we should get out? That's what they seem to understand there.

[petesis]

I think it is ON now. The government in Baghdad has banned numerous news organizations to a degree many in this country (USA) were unaware. This is Bush vision of a democracy? The Sunnis will never make peace with the Shiites now that they have hung Saddam. Bush has set this thing rolling in the worst way at every turn. We should be working with the Sunnis against the Shiites but Bush is too stupid to see that and too arrogant to listen. He has handed that country to Iran unless the Sunnis can stop it.

[bobgee_1999]

Everybody pretends that civil war in Iraq is equal to U.S. failure and it is the last thing anybody wants. But the hanging of Saddam proves even further that the Bush administration WANTS civil war in Iraq. If they're fighting amongst themselves they have less time for us, and as long as a bunch of them die---whomever they are---that means fewer for us to have to kill when the smoke clears.

It is spellbinding. I watched it three times. Saddam is led in to the chamber and there is cacophony and heckling from the start. The Shia crowd and executioner are hell bent on humiliating him. The Muqtada al-Sadr crowd berates Saddam and chants %u201CMuqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada.%u201D When the guard says, %u201CGod *** You Saddam,%u201D Saddam throws it back in his face, %u201CGoddam You%u201D he says.

Saddam ruled rough and hard. Perhaps, that is the only way to rule Iraq. The Shia present showed their childish behavior in chanting Muqtada al-Sadr%u2019s name. Why was Al Sadr%u2019s crew at the hanging? It is a message. The Shia sects rule Iraq now. It is a childish move and Saddam called them on it with 15 seconds to live. Saddam responds %u201Cis this how you show you are brave men?%u201D

I am a white guy from the mid-west and don%u2019t care much for Islam; however, Saddam's courage and dignity in this instance command my respect.

An Arab man can take pride in Saddam: strong, un-repentant, stalwart and dignified to the end. He went down in a magnanimous way and history recorded. it. My president would have been a shaking, crying mess.

In fact, it is shameful thatUS forces only minutes earlier turned the former president of a sovereign country over to an un-dignified and politically aligned mob.

[exusmcsgt]

Check out

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2114403.ece

[xfredmenzies]

Hey, what a surprise. Killing Saddam gave birth to a hundred thousand new terrorists.