Author Topic: Baghdad on alert awaiting Saddam verdict (Read 905 times)

DiabloTX · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2006, 05:00:50 AM »

What they should have done was announce him guilty, walk him to the front door of the court, and release Saddam to the awaiting arms of his awaiting loyal Iraqi subjects. I am sure they would have thrown him a party to remember.

JB88 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2006, 05:01:56 AM »

wonder if he will have the opportunity to appeal.

eagl · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2006, 06:16:24 AM »

Read the cnn.com coverage.

Saddam was in court when the verdict was read, and as it was read he held up a koran and started hollering allah akbar over and over until he was led out of the courtroom. One of the others on trial also did this.

An appeal is automatic for the ones who received death sentences and life in prison sentences.

Fishu · « **Reply #18 on:** November 05, 2006, 07:39:54 AM »

That's funny.. Saddam didn't use to be a religious person and used to meet religious heads only for PR purposes.

moot · « **Reply #19 on:** November 05, 2006, 07:44:42 AM »

Saddam had refused to leave his cell to show up when the verdict was first read. He wasn't the only one who was dragged out hollering, from what I could tell watching the 15min-delayed coverage.

Boroda · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2006, 09:57:02 AM »

Well done.

Death sentence for how many people killed? I bet - less then 650 000...

I guess they are supposed to hang him ASAP instead of listening to him as a witness on other trials, he definetly knows too much. There waas no need for that farce, the result was obvious.

Boroda · « **Reply #21 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:01:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
Solution:

Dig deep hole. Place saddumb in hole. Add 1 or 2 grenades minus pins. Cover hole. Problem solved.

Solution was 2/3 there when we found him, darnit.

They needed to hang him after catching, that's the problem, to make it look legitimate.

BTW, why do you hate him so much? They told you on TV that he ate your baby-sitter? I mean - is it personal? Are you an Arab-American with family in Kuwait?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:14:20 AM »

I know this freedom concept is foreign to you boroda, but it pisses me off what he did to the Kurds.

Just the thought of Britain tossing nerve gas on the colonies when we wanted to fight for our freedom is sickening.

Nilsen · « **Reply #23 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:16:35 AM »

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Originally posted by Fishu
That's funny.. Saddam didn't use to be a religious person and used to meet religious heads only for PR purposes.

Saddam turned to Allah when he saw that he could benefit from it.

lukster · « **Reply #24 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:17:34 AM »

Both CNN and Fox are carrying Saddams sentence on their web sites. Interesting to note the top stories by each:

CNN: Hussein is sentenced, Iraq shrugs

Fox News: Celebratory gunfire rings out in Baghdad

Maverick · « **Reply #25 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:23:11 AM »

There is no real benefit to Bush in having the verdict announced just before the American election. Think about, it the last thing he would want would be more violence going on and the attendant losses in casualties of all kinds. That cannot reflect well on Bush no matter what kind of spin you would try to apply. The same for any demo incumbant that originally voted for the war. Assuming the media is correct, that the verdict would inflame the violence to greater heights, I would have to assume that Bush would want it delayed until after the election. At this point, since saddumb is not in Bush's control since he was turned over to the Iraqi courts he isn't "directly responsible" for him or his well being at the time. ANy increase in tensions or violence would however have a possible impact on the election.

Boroda,

Your post is rather banal. If you can't see holding a mass muderer in contempt there is nothing I could say that would convince you. I also don't care much for hitler or tojo either.

Thrawn · « **Reply #26 on:** November 05, 2006, 10:26:41 AM »

How the hell does Fox know what is the sound of "celebratory gunfire" or an insurgent attack.

"Solution was 2/3 there when we found him, darnit."

I've always wondered what was going through the mind of the commanding officer on the scene of the arrest.

ghi · « **Reply #27 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:13:27 PM »

imop,Sadam's death sentence is stupid and irresponsible, life prisson would make more sense

Boroda · « **Reply #28 on:** November 05, 2006, 05:11:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
Boroda,

Your post is rather banal. If you can't see holding a mass muderer in contempt there is nothing I could say that would convince you. I also don't care much for hitler or tojo either.

You propbably don't understand. I am not protecting Saddam in any way, he could be a dictator, a mass-murderer, whatever - I don't care. What I see is the hypocricy - to hang a person who is responsible for the death of 2000 Kurds - they already killed over 650 000 (the figure is from BBC news that I watch here in Australia). 650 000 is over 5% of the whole population of Iraq, imagine: one of 20 Iraqi citizens killed in last 3 years. This is what they call "genocide", isn't it?

In 1999 NATO gangsters killed several thousand Serbs because Serbs killed 200 Albanians (and Albanians killed 200 Serbs). Guillotine is the best cure against dandruff? Saying that all this bloody "liberations" have some moral reasons and are because of the desire to sincerely help poor opressed people is insane, just look at the numbers.

Hanging Saddam is the best way to conceal the real facts that may be very unpleasant for "liberators". If you want justice - let him speak instead of shutting him down. But there is no chance, look, they had to shut down Miloshevich and then murder him, and it's easier for them to stop Saddam from speaking - he's in the hands of the occupants, not even in a staged "international justice" tribunal.

After killing 650 000 - one more, one less - it doesn't matter, but he faces many other accusations, so I want to see him trialed for all of them, and I hope that Al Jazeera will show us the details. They are killing the key witness, and it looks like they are simply trying to conceal something really unpleasant.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 05, 2006, 05:16:24 PM »

Ah, I think I see where you are going with this. Sorry for jumping on you.

They have to try Saddam on a case by case basis. They can't just throw out that he killed 5% of the population, and proceed from there. They need specific instances that he was directly responsible for.

Now, Saddam himself isn't a young man. At the pace court trials last, Saddam wouldn't survive going through every single man woman and child he killed in many separate court cases.

So they pick a big one, publicize the trial, and execute him before he dies of old age.