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I read that hundreds of Iraqi civilians are coming forth to volunteer for the job of henchman.  They’re also clammering for it to be televised.

If people think this won’t change anything, then they’ve been paying too much attention to *our* media.  That wasn’t intended to insult anyone btw :).  The process may have taken too long, but also remember one judge had to step down, there were switches in lawyers, etc...AND, this was their first democratic court session as far as I know, and Saddam at that!  Not too shabby.  What I *do* like?  The fact that unlike the U.S., they aren’t dragging their feet with appeal upon appeal for a dozen or so years.  The bastard is going to die next month.

Shoot - should be pay-per-view.

If we hadn’t taken down Hussein, he’d be the one doing the executing, and liberals would not shed a single tear for his victims.  It would seem that the high road that liberals claim is more like the gutter.

barista - 27 December 2006 06:34 PM

I read that hundreds of Iraqi civilians are coming forth to volunteer for the job of henchman.  They’re also clammering for it to be televised.

If people think this won’t change anything, then they’ve been paying too much attention to *our* media.  That wasn’t intended to insult anyone btw :).  The process may have taken too long, but also remember one judge had to step down, there were switches in lawyers, etc...AND, this was their first democratic court session as far as I know, and Saddam at that!  Not too shabby.  What I *do* like?  The fact that unlike the U.S., they aren’t dragging their feet with appeal upon appeal for a dozen or so years.  The bastard is going to die next month.

Shoot - should be pay-per-view.

Our nation has an idealistic notion of “the legal process”.
Iraq’s legal process has been followed.
I’m not concerned in the least, whether Hussein recieved a fair trial or a Kangaroo court.  There is NO DOUBT of his crimes. NONE.
Ergo I shall cry no tears when he swings from a rope.  NONE.

With apologies to Robert Service:

There are strange things done in the desert sun
By men who are free and bold;
The Iraqi trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Central Command has made us proud,
But the proudest we’ve ever been
Was that New Years’ fair in a Bagdhad square
They dispached old Saddam Hussein.

I’m glad the method of execution is to be hanging.  Saddam relished in the most gruesome and sadistic acts of torture and murder and it seems fitting that his method of execution is likely to be a frightening experience.  I wonder how much we will know about those final moments and how he faced it?

I think hanging has been, and should still be, appropriate in extreme cases.  Few can calmly walk up the steps of a gallows.  I won’t gain any respect for him even if he faces it like a man, but I doubt that he will.  Hanging is the one sure way we can know the monster has gone to hell because he enters the gates at the top of the steps.