Report: U.S. Tried To Delay Saddam Hanging

American Ambassador Concerned Execution Was Being Carried Out Too Quickly

(CBS/AP)  In the hours before Saddam Hussein was led to the gallows by men in ski masks, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq reportedly tried, but failed, to delay the execution, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston.

A Reuters report, quoting Iraqi officials familiar with the discussions, says ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad insisted that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki provide certain documents, including a signature from Iraq's president.

Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie confirmed to CBS News that the U.S. "brought to the attention of the government of Iraq to be careful with ... documentation" and that Iraq provided the required paperwork including "a consent document from President Jalal Talabani."

The U.S. had leverage. From the moment of his capture, to his trial and sentencing, Saddam was in U.S. military custody, reports Pinkston. After the flurry of negotiations, Saddam wasn't handed over until a few hours before his execution.

After Hussein's burial Monday, rage over the hanging spilled into the streets in many parts of the Sunni Muslim hartland Monday, especially in Samarra where a mob of angry protesters broke the locks off the badly damaged Shiite Golden Dome mosque and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the executed former leader.

Sunni extremists had blown apart the glistening dome on the Shiite holy place 10 months earlier, setting in motion the sectarian slaughter that now grips the troubled land.

The Samarra protest was particularly significant because it signaled a widening expression of defiance among Sunnis, the minority Muslim sect in Iraq that had enjoyed special status and power under Saddam and had oppressed the now-ascendant Shiite majority for centuries.

But what exactly is the difference between Sunnis and Shia? Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, says, "The difference between the two is not necessarily a religious one. It is administrative, it is a political one. And in fact, it is less of a difference than between Catholics and Protestants."

Until Saddam was executed, excluding a few days of protests after his death sentence was handed down Nov. 5, the broader Sunni population had sought a low profile in the sectarian conflict that had seen thousands of them killed or driven from their homes by Shiite militia forces since the Samarra bombing Feb. 22.

"Saddam Hussein's execution is not likely to bring the hoped-for reconciliation although it brought closure to some of his victims," said CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk, "and the continued sectarian violence will be key to the Administration's reevaluation of Iraq policy, expected later this week."

Sunni insurgents and foreign fighters of al-Qaida in Iraq had been conducting a bloody insurgency with attacks on U.S. forces and brutal bombings against Shiite civilians since the summer of 2003, shortly after Saddam was ousted in the American-led invasion.

While many Sunnis were known to be sympathetic to the insurgency, its active membership had not reached broadly into the Sunni population. The angry Sunni protests that now are building in the country could presage deeper involvement by what until now had been a largely quiescent group.

The Sunnis were not only angered by Saddam's hurried execution, just four days after an appeals court upheld his conviction and sentence, but were increasingly incensed by the unruly and undignified manner in which the hanging was carried out.

A clandestine video of the hanging showed Saddam was taunted by some present at the execution with chants of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada" in the last moments of his life. The chants were a reference to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who runs one of the deadliest religious militias in Iraq and is a major power behind the government of al-Maliki, who had pushed for Saddam to be hanged before the year was out.

Saddam was put to death on the eve of the Shiite celebration of the Eid al-Ahda, the major Muslim festival marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and a remembrance Abraham's willingness to sacrifice of his son, now symbolized by the slaughtering of sheep.

The first judge in the so-called Dujail trial, Rizgar Mohammed Amin, said Saddam's execution in the during the eid was illegal according to Iraqi law. Sunni Muslim festivities marking the holiday began on the same day that Saddam was hanged. Rizgar, a Kurd, was removed as chief judge in the case after Shiite complaints that he was too lenient. He was replaced in January 2006 by Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman.

"The implementation of Saddam's execution during Eid al-adha is illegal according to chapter 9 of the tribunal law. Article 27 states that nobody, even the president (Jalal Talabani), may change rulings by the tribunal and the implementation of the sentence should not happen until 30 days after publication that the appeals court has upheld the tribunal verdict.

The hanging during the Eid al-Adha period (also) contradicts Iraqi and Islamic custom. "Article 290 of the criminal code of 1971 (which was largely used in the Saddam trial) states that no verdict should implemented during the official holidays or religious festivals," he said.

In northern Baghdad, hundreds of Sunnis conducted a demonstration to mourn Saddam in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood.

"The Baath party and Baathists still exist in Iraq, and nobody can marginalize it," said Samir al-Obaidi, 48, who attended a Saddam memorial in the Azamiyah neighborhood.

[xfredmenzies]

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

[exusmcsgt]

Check out

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

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[emtak1]

newster1

Lol, maybe an Iraqi car deficiency will boost the American auto industry.

I'm not a fascist, but have tried to get a deepr understanding of why things haven't worked there.And I believe it is because American assumed that enough people in Iraq would want democracy bad enough that they would bust their ***, and be willing to sacrifice their lives if needed.

Enough Iraqis are willing.

Adn whyile we kid ourselves, more US GIs die

[emtak1]

oops

i mena tenough Iraqia are not willing to die fro freedom and justice to make it a democracy.

Instead there is anarchy

[emtak1]

Samir al-Obaidi:

Yes but Iraqi people colectively tolerated that behavior. How do you explain that away?

[blondmadison]

Saddam Hussein did not torture and murder millions. The Iraqi peoples did that to each other, just for the asking.

Just like our own troops do, just for the asking.

America thinks it's murder and mayhem is "God's" will? It is moral behavior to kill?

America is psychotic from voting on their own way to behave. Like gang members. Sick and sickening.

[emtak1]

"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"--

Atleast we have the balls to kick out tyrants. Wehn you find a free blog to whine about the government , in Iran, then you will have moral authority.

[emtak1]

"America is psychotic from voting on their own way to behave. Like gang members. Sick and sickening."

We are just different. Islam seems to honor the virtue of strength highly...Amecans honor the virtue of freedom...

Yes many of us are not strong morally, Yes many in teh Middel East are not free. We see the weaknesses in each other and both think we are superior.

[sharncedar]

While you are about the process of blaming Iraqis for their current problems, think a bit about Katrina here in the US. That hurricane and flood caused a brief breakdown in the police effectiveness, and the result was immediate civil disorder and looting.

The American attack on Iraq was more disruptive than Katrina and for a longer time. we even intentionally dismantled the existing police and authorities, down to a low level, without replacing them.

Before you go blaming Iraqis for the mess Bush caused, be careful, if the same thing happens in the US I would think it very unfortunate.

[emtak1]

SharnCedar:

Yeah Bush is pretty *** bad at his job yet we continue to give him a paycheck each week, LOL.

Whats your point? Just about everyone knows now that Bush's job performance would have gotten him fired at McDonalds, but the fast-food joint called the USA keeps him on, LOL

But all those dead soldiers arent chuckling

[missamerica4]

One_American

Good post, and so true.

"Grow up liberals, before your kids do."

Better yet...Grow up before your kids don't get a chance to grow up. Those radicals islamics will blow them and their kids up at the first chance.

[emtak1]

beleive it or not, there are worse things than dying an honorable soldier's death

[fascistusa]

Fascist America in our Media.

WAKE UP!!!

V for Vendetta
A Scanner Darkly
Easy Rider
Equilibrium
Star Wars - The (American) Empire
The Matrix
Apocolyse Now - Francis Ford Copolla

System of a Down - "We Don't Live in a FASCIST Nation" (sarcasm)
*** Pistols - "God Save the Queen from this FASCIST REGIME"
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rage Against the Machine
Queensryche - Empire
Genesis/ Disturbed - Land of Confusion
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
The Doors - Jim Morrison
John Lennon - Revolution / Xmas (War is Over)

1984 Orwell
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Tyranny of the Majority - Toqueville

Batman: Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller.
Marvel%u2019s Civil War series

prisonplanet.com
whatreallyhappened.com
Project for the New American Century


FASCIST REGIMES IN AMERICA

Bush/Cheney
NIXON
Lyndon B. Johnston
McKinley
McCarthy
Lincoln
Salem Witch Trials

[kstrisha]

Quote Title: Report: U.S. Tried To Delay Saddam Hanging


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This is a lie. We had custody of Saddam until just a few hours before he was killed. I rarely watch television, and I just saw everything up until the floor fell, and I must say that it appeared more of a LYNCHING than a hanging.

I am NOT defending the murderer(Saddam), but the way it was carried out...

If the United States government WANTED to DELAY Saddam's execution--WE WOULD HAVE DONE IT.

[agnim]

"This is a lie. ......

If the United States government WANTED to DELAY Saddam's execution--WE WOULD HAVE DONE IT.

Posted by kstrisha at 06:52 PM : Jan 01, 2007"
Nuff said!

Our dear leader was just too ready to gloat with the rest of the vultures for us to now believe that he wanted any delay in the lynching of this fairly harmless old man. Tsk-tsk

[joanpz]

It is not enough to think that America is special & that we could not experience a SADDAM -- don't look now, BUT GW BUSH HAS BEEN ACTING LIKE A KING & Dictator (?) -- usurping the Constitution, pre-empting a war against Iraq a soverign country; ignoring the UN; calling Iran, N.Korea axes of evil in 2002, threatens coups against Cuba & Venezuela at every opportunity (declared Castro's death imminent), Veto-ing any UN resolution if any mention of Israel, not signing the Kyoto Treaty, refusing to believe in global warming & accepting only that the Polar bears are suffering global warming danger; allowing corruption to ruin Iraq's rebuilding; FEMA & Katrina are still a disaster; also the U.S. 109th Congress was guilty of every form of corruption from gerrymandering districts to Hastert's refusal to take action against Foley...
Where ever you look, YOU CAN SEE GW BUSH HAS BEEN READING (?) ABOUT HITLER, TRUMAN -- and deciding HE COULD DO IT ALSO, only not as well!This could go "on & on"...you know most of it anyway...MOST RATIONAL AMERICANS KNOW THAT GW BUSH WANTED SADDAM DEAD! Not tomorrow, TODAY!!

[kstrisha]

Quote Joanpz:

It is not enough to think that America is special & that we could not experience a SADDAM -- don't look now, BUT GW BUSH HAS BEEN ACTING LIKE A KING & Dictator

===========

Right On Joan!

[ghareeb2-2009]

I'm Egyptian we feel severe rage and anger bec Saddam was killed in the first day of the Muslim holy feast, do you know what does this timing means for us ?...it's the biggest insult for us as Muslims,
and do you know what does this means for you americans?...more hatred...more american bodies everywhere...more burnt american flesh in Iraq and Aphghanstan...and more Usama bin Ladin
now Saddam is a great hero and martyr and his pictures are now put in every arabic and muslim house...cause killing Saddam in that day turned him into a great hero and a victim...another american mistake ...now SADDAM WILL CAUSE MORE SERIOUS TROUBLES THAN BEFORE!!!

[houser123]

For those of you posting that liberals should grow up before our kids do, I say to you, "Take flying leap." For now, the "LIBERALS" are in charge of Congress or better put. the grownups are back in charge. When will the NOECONS realize that a military solution does NOT exist in Iraq. We can continue to kill them and they continue to kill us. We can "STAY THIS COURSE" for years to come and spend a trillion dollars and for what? WMDS that never existed. ties to AQ that never happened, and nuclear weapons " Mushroom Cloud" that was never going to happen. I ask each and everyone that supported this stupid war of choice, IF GWB had said, I want to invade Iraq to overthrow Hussein, how many would have supported that idea? My bet it that only a very few would have done so and we would not be there today.

[jimfinster]

ghareeb2:

So now you Muslims are REALLY mad.

Maybe now you will hijack some planes and fly them into buildings, or maybe kidnap some folks and cut their heads off, or maybe use some car bombs to kill innocent men, women, and children.

Oh sorry, I forgot. You have already done all those things. Were you REALLY mad then, or just kinda mad?

[patriotic9]

kstrisha
You think it's a lie?I don't think so.USA is not in the control of ordering RADICAL ISLAMISTs like MALIKI rather MALIKI is in full control of taking US tax payed money on the name of REBUILDING IRAQ to form an EXTREMIST ISLAMIC EMPIRE from IRAN in the EAST to LEBANON in the WEST to use that as a BASE to plan attacks against the so called "THE GREATEST SATAN"and to take US weapons on the name of ARMING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES to kill our soldiers with those weapons till OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN order NUKE ATTACK against us when we'd be already FINANCIALLY and MILITARILY BANKRUPT.Our troops are dying in IRAQ by our TAX PAYED money and we can't help that.CHRISTIANITY IS PSYCHOSIS and BUSH is a PSYCHOTIC.We have destroyed ourselves to elect a PSYCHOTIC not once but twice and have proven that we are a NATION OF PSYCHOTIC PEOPLE.

[juliehg-2009]

GWB used 9/11 to manipulate the American people to go after Osama-Been-Forgotten. 4-5 years ago most of us, myself included, believed it was the right decision.

Then in a blink of an eye, he does a complete 180 and we're in Iraq chasing windmills, i.e. WMDs. Shrub wanted Iraq to avenge his father -- GHWB.

Shrub, Cheney, and Rummy shot first and asked questions later(I doubt they even bothered to ask). Now look where we are. Osama-Hasbeen-Forgotten, Iraq is in the middle of a civil war, and our guys are fighting for their lives all because the Three Musketeers had an agenda from the get go.

We couldn't see the VietCong in VietNam and we can't see the snipers & IEDs in Iraq. Totally misguided, totally corrupt, and totally scr#%ed up.

This administration is a couple of clowns short of a circus, and we all got caught holding the popcorn!

[antoniof123]

How do some of you know to get up and breath the air in the morning. Now Sadam is honered by many and this of course will lead to perhaps millions joining the insane march to kill. Thank you for all you do thinking that you can win a war on terror by fighting with conventional methods. There is only one way to fight this type of war and that is the same way it is waged. If you can not do this then get out ot the kitchen America, in fact we really should leave because we have made such a mess now that it can not be fixed.

[grazinggoat]

Report: U.S. Tried To Delay Saddam Hanging
American Ambassador Concerned Execution Was Being Carried Out Too Quickly

That is an insult to the intelligence of Americans and to other nations'...

[patriotic9]

jimfinster
I am neither a muslim nor I have any feeling of mercy for MUSLIMS just like I don't have any feeling of mercy for CHRISTIAN,JEWS,HINDUS,etc.But there is no doubt that I don't hate anybody in the whole world like I hate CHRISTIANS.CHRISTIANITY IS PSYCHOSIS and CHRISTIANS are the worst psychotics in the world.
Anybody with a little bit of common sense can realize that an ideology according to which those CHRISTIANS who love JESUS and believe in JESUS as SON OF GOD and MESSIAH,are GOD-NEGLECTED PEOPLE because of not being born in a RACE or FAMILY CHOSEN by a RACIST GOD whereas those who believe that JESUS was an ILLEGITIMATE SON of his mother and his mother MARRY was a FORNICATOR and NON-VIRGIN are GOD CHOSEN,is as PSYCHOTIC as OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN in TORA BORA and BUSH attacked IRAQ,as PSYCHOTIC as SANTA CLAUSE coming on a FLYING DEER to distribute candies.
If EUROPEAN GOD CHOSEN ENEMIES OF THE GOD'S ONLY SON were not brought into PALESTINE to occupy the land of those PALESTINIAN PEOPLE by force who had nothing to do with the CRIMES comited by HITLER because BIBLE said so,ALQAEDA'd not get enough recruits to fly planes into buildings because KORAN says so.

[mdmx66]

I'm Egyptian we feel severe rage and anger bec Saddam was killed in the first day of the Muslim holy feast,
Posted by ghareeb2 at 08:04 PM : Jan 01, 2007


Let's get this straight... WE DON'T GIVE A RAT's @SS IF WE OFFEND YOUR MUSLIM CUSTOMS. Got it?

[grazinggoat]

Bush: Execution 'An Important Milestone'
President Was Already Asleep For Saddam's Hanging

This is an important milestone in the proof that G.Walking-LiarBush and his dwarfs are once-again lying. Walking-Liar was asleep, meaning that in his mind it (hanging) was a done deal. Ambassador Khalilzad wouldn't take a sole responsibility without consulting with Walking-Liar for the delay.

Now our Adventurous Administration is trying to simulate a cleaning of a jumbo-mambo mess that will generate more bloodshed in the American-occupied territory of Iraq. Hope not.

What a bunch of incompetent counsellors we have.

[rusty50-2009]

grazingoat - "That is an insult to the intelligence of Americans and to other nations'..."

Judging from the half-illiterate ramblings of the backwater liberal rubes replying on this message board, there isn't a whole lot of intelligence going around the democratic ranks for any remarks to be found insulting to their "intelligence".

Hard to even take some whining hick seriously when he can't even spell or write. For starters, you fools, I recommend "Spell Check".....

Selah

[rusty50-2009]

grazingoat - "That is an insult to the intelligence of Americans and to other nations'..."

Judging from the half-illiterate ramblings of the backwater liberal rubes replying on this message board, there isn't a whole lot of intelligence going around the democratic ranks for any remarks to be found insulting to their "intelligence".

Hard to even take some whining hick seriously when he can't even spell or write. For starters, you fools, I recommend "Spell Check".....

Selah

[itchybrain]

There will be hell to pay for this.

A war criminal was executed on the orders of even bigger war criminals... and more gas gets poured on the fire.

Bush slept... Jesus wept.

[rusty50-2009]

grazingoat - "That is an insult to the intelligence of Americans and to other nations'..."

Judging from the half-illiterate ramblings of the backwater liberal rubes replying on this message board, there isn't a whole lot of intelligence going around the democratic ranks for any remarks to be found insulting to their "intelligence".

Hard to even take some whining hick seriously when he can't even spell or write. For starters, you fools, I recommend "Spell Check".....

Selah

[long_rider]

For those who have time dor a little lite reading:

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/cheney_s_secrets.html

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/criminal_corporate_media.html

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/impeach_bush.html

[patriotic9]

Rusty50
I don't have to impress you to make you my GIRL FRIEND or BOY FRIEND.My spelling mistakes give whatever false impression about me won't hurt UNITED STATES at all period but involving PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANITY into US politics will doom USA very soon and that GOD who was sleeping on 9/11 will keep on sleeping.You can pick up people's spelling mistakes but can't pick up BUSH's and his PSYCHOSIS CHRISTIANITY MISTAKES which had resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans in WORLD TRADE CENTER,IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN.Which one is more deadly for Americans,spelling mistakes or mistake of making US POLICIES on the basis of PSYCHOSIS?When OSAMA BEEN-FORGOTTEN was planning attack against USA,the RADICAL CONSERVATIVES were wasting times of the entire nation in figuring out how far President Bill Clinton relstionship went with Ms Monica Lewinsky which was none of their buisness.The same RADICAL PSYCHOTIC CHRITIAN CONSERVATIVES have no prblem when their fellow PSYCHOTICs play the game of THE FATHER,THE SON and THE HOLY GHOST in the HOLY CHURHCES,they have no problem when their fellow CHRISTIAN BROTHER FOLEY harass young boys on the INTERNET.Oh I forgot,these CHRISTIAN conservatives have no problem in a man *** a BOY,they have problem in somebody having affair with adults.

[patriotic9]

Policies based on PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANITY has turned one of the most liberal country in the MIDDLE EAST into a part of ISLAMIC EMPIRE and the best terrorist training camp but it doesn't matter,it's not spelling mistake.PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANITY has turned the worst enemy of RADICAL ISLAM into an ISLAMIC MARTYR but it doesn't matter,that's not SPELLING MISTAKE.PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANTITY has made the entire nation of United States the GOD-NEGLECTED SERVANTS,SLAVES and PROTECTORS of the GOD CHOSEN ENEMIES OF THE GOD'S ONLY SON but it doesn't matter,that's not SPELLING MISTAKE.PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANTY has forced Americans to send their tax money to a RADICAL ISLAMIST named MALIKI whose BOSS AYATOLLAHs call us the GREATEST SATAN so that he can kill our troops in IRAQ by our TAX MONEY but it doesn't matter,that's not SPELLING MISTAKE.PSYCHOTIC CHRISTIANITY has ignored the threat posed by N.KOREA till they built the NUKES since it's so far from the MIDDLE EAST that invading there couldn't help the 2nd coming of CHRIST,it doesn't matter.That's not the SPELLING MISTAKE.PSYCHOTIC CHRITSTIANITY has let OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN escape from TORA BORA but it doesn't matter,that's not SPELLING MISTAKE.

[ceres5]

Little by little people will learn about all the abuse that took place during the last hours of Saddam Hussein. Even though his captors were careful not to leave marks on his face, soon the people around the world will know the number of times Mr. Hussein was kicked and punched in the body and legs. In addition, there is a remarkable similarity in the behavior of Shiite Muslims and some American people. Shiites celebrated effusively the execution of Sadam Hussein in the same way that Americans celebrated the death of Ted Bundy. Real decent people do not celebrate the death of other human beings.

[ceres5]

Mr. Bush gave the life of Saddam Hussein in a silver tray to the mad anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. His followers acted very macho insulting and abusing a chained man about to be executed. The killing of Saddam Hussein will not improve the domestic ratings of Mr. Bush, as he is desperately hoping for, but it certainly will increase by tens of millions the number of people around the world, who will have a deeper and paranoid hatred toward the American people. Furthermore, no credit or good will be received from Muqtada al-Sadr. I have never heard a single case in which dealing with a hyena brings generosity or gratitude.

[samthetvcat]

Sounds from the headline like the US government's trying to get us to believe that they didn't have their hands all over this execution even though they did since they had control of Saddam up until the execution . . . why they waste so much time on 'impression management' which nobody ever believes is beyond me - and then they wonder why they have zero credibility, respect, or support?!?

Whatever . . . what I find truly troubling is the fact that they've pinned their hopes of establishing a democracy on a president who doesn't seem fazed about breaking the law while he has been entrusted with the task of enforcing the Nation's laws - is it fundamentally possible to establish security when people don't believe in the law enforcement process? Why should people place their faith in the system and trust law enforcement? I just don't see how this is supposed to happen . . .

[grazinggoat]

RustyBrain
Impressing. This is a heck of an argument. Just wondering how I'd behave: laugh or cry in front of such simplicity of mind.

How many times did you go to brainwashin' today? Watch out Rusty. Too much brainwashing could be fatal for yet half-rusty brainers.

Actually you could be a good dwarf for Walking-Liar, and most probably U already are. Walking-Liar cannot be a good leader except for half-brainer people such as you

[grazinggoat]

thanks exusmcsgt for the lonk to The Independant Mr Fisk's article:

'The whole truth died with Saddam Hussein in the Baghdad execution chamber yesterday. Many in Washington and London must have sighed with relief that the old man had been silenced for ever'

Luckily we have some decent journalists around.

G.Walkin-LiarBush was asleep at 9h00 pm. My Dad sleeps at that time, but hey he is over 85. Walking-Liar dwarfs, this is a poor performance...

That was a good day for him. Republicans won't have to face public opinion and critics once Saddam silenced for ever.

[rusty50-2009]

Just gotta laugh at all the naive bleeding hearts who think "poor Saddam" was maltreated. This guy was Hitler Lite and deserved far worse than he got. Go ahead and blame America, you fools.....Iraq executed him.

They should have bent him over the gallows rail and f--ked him in the @ss a few dozen times before stringing him up, to add a little insult as well.

Personally I laugh at how he went from being a fat, cruel mass murderer to a dirtbag in a hole and then a stressed-out nervous wreck, gaunt, drawn and reduced in court to alternately yelling at the judge in indignation or kissing the judge's @ss from the fear of what they planned to do to him.

No doubt you bleeding hearts would have preferred a UN tribunal like Milosevic got - with the defendant on a soapbox for years, with no punishment in sight. Unfortunately Milosevic died of natural causes - he should have been hung, too.

But libs and democrats would have whined about that too.

Selah

[rusty50-2009]

grazingoat - let me guess....grade four was the best three years of your life, before you finally quit and gave up.

Illiterate fools need to be seen and dismmissed. Or you could go back to grade five as a mature student.

Selah

[grazinggoat]

Rusty50
yep, I was a specialist in grade 4, and that was fast... Go to sleep now dirty a$$.