You beat me by literally 2 seconds Hoosker. Good thing I refreshed.


...and good riddance.

I'm getting news bulletins all over my mailbox. TV confirms it. Great cub reporting, Hoosker.

Wow. Truly an event that marks the shift in the history of the whole region. Maybe it's too optimistic to say that maybe some other leaders in the world with similar qualities to the deposed, and now deceased leader, Saddam Hussein; will finally realize that the world will not tolerate a regime who's policy places it at odds with humanity.

i knew someone was going to beat me on this story when i found that the court upheld it. good thing I didn't try (or try and get a satlink connection with an Irqai).

I might have jumped the gun too quickly. I was just watching the news and they reported that this guy states, from Iraq, that Saddam is fine. He is perfectly healthy and don't believe the Americans propaganda. He actually just saw Saddam at an Iraqi Sizzler eating kabobs.
I'll check into this...

Are you sure it wasn't this guy?

I would have payed anything for some good front row tickets

I am in general opposed to the deathsentence.














Still, good riddance.

And so it starts:

Meh,

It already was going before the execution.

Heh heh I miss that guy! Isn't he working at a television station in the middle east?

Great site suebe, thanks. I wish I knew about it before. I would have used a better quote, like;

"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day...I triple guarantee you Saddam is alive and well."

??? Someone voted you down for this comment ???
A true moron in every sense of the word moron would vote so moronically on such a neutral statement....

I believe hes gone.

Too many trusted sources reporting it.

Edit.
It was also broadcast live and the BBC claim to have the entire tape along with CNN and Routers.

CNN have broadcasted right up to the moment he drops.

Edit.

I feel saddened by the death of Saddam, not because he deserved to live but because it is taking place under US occupation of Iraq

Nafeesa Zafar, Pakistan

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And as for good riddence. The guy was in his 70's locked away. We were rid of him anyway.

Edit.
My mistake - he was 69

The death penalty doesn't solve anything. To paraphrase thoreau, each person has his own talents which should be used for the good of society.

Life is a precious thing, and while he was not justified in killing, we were no more justified in killing him.

More and more, this seems to me like our president just has a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein after the Kuwait incident between his father and Hussein.

If we care so much about liberating people, why is there no serious effort in Sudan? Millions have died there, and we have done so little!

So if we sent our troops to the Sudan would you be satisfied, or would your remarks contain criticism against the U.S. for not helping the oppressed and starving in N Korea?? ...and so on.
And as far as your comment the "we" killed him, I assume meaning the U.S., I would have to disagree and say that if ,in fact, "we" were to execute Saddam, it would have taken about 20-27 years to play-out.
I've always been baffled at those who have so much compassion for every precious life but show no compassion and have no empathy towards the victims.

well, I guess that's why I'm not in politics. I'd be most satisfied if we didn't have to use troops, but that day won't come in a few centuries.

I just feel that our troops would have been more effective elsewhere, particularly in an area where more people are dying. This is a bad situation, as well, to be sure, and it was right to stop it. However, I really do think that this was the wrong place to start in our desire to liberate other areas. At the very least, the US would have had support from several other countries if it had instead gone into the Darfur region and stopped the genocide there.

not to end with a bitter quip, and I hope it's not perceived as such, but I never did say that I have no compassion toward those who died. To assume that seems to be a logical fallacy to me.

I hope neither this post nor the last one seems malicious or spiteful, because I do not want to send that message at all.

The US did push for this. The US occupies iraq. They got past the 20-27 years play-out by then using iraq's system to kill him.

So which one is it?

Iraq needs changing - except for when it meets a certain need.

Besides, this particular war started through the actions of Bin-Laden.

This fact has been slowly pushed to the side by those in power so this war can be used - again - to meet other needs. The whole thing stinks of s**t.

Not at all AOEU, just healthy debate. I shouldn't have include my final comment in a reply to you. I've been reading the "All Life is Precious", "We are no better than him" statements in commentary all over the Internet today and probably read too much into you comment. Your points are well taken. I just disagree with some of them.

Well said