BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday.
BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (BBC) – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). It was witnessed by a doctor, lawyer and officials. It was also filmed. US troops and Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violent backlash. Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town Dujail.
Good riddance. If only the castro brothers were next on the gallows… (See below.)
Sic semper tyrannis is Latin for “Thus always to tyrants.” The motto is on the flag and the Great Seal of the state of Virginia as its motto.
Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, shouted the phrase after shooting the president in the head at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
Booth was shot dead by Union soldiers and his co-conspirators shared the same fate as Saddam did.
Val,
Now why am I tempted to hum Queen’s hit from the
80’s: “Another One Bites the Dust”?
Both FOX and CNN have headlines, “Death to the Dictator.”
Lets see if fidel gets the same headline, soon I hope.
Also saw my Christmas present tonight, a DVD of “The Lost City”…form my wife…she’s a keeper.
Happy New Year Val, George and all.
Happy New Year friends.
they’re actually showing footage of saddam being led to the gallows.
he seemed pretty calm for a guy who was about to be hanged. of course, he was also treated with probably way more dignity that he ever gave any of his victims.
now he’s gonna have to answer to a higher court now.
I don’t get why you guys, find such a big different between Dictator Saddan Hussein and Dictator Augusto Pinochet?
I feel strong that there are NOT “good dictators”, all of them should end their life just like this, period!.
Happy New Year,
DotCu
I don’t think anyone on this blog defends Pinochet – I surely wouldn’t. But there is a difference, and it’s simply in the order of magnitude. Pinochet was responsible for about 3,000 deaths. Saddam is responsible for well over 300,000 – not counting deaths due to war. So Saddam’s rule was on the order of 100 times more bloody than Pinochet’s.
JackW,
I was going to post the samething right now. I caught on to that too. I said to my wife, “They better have the same headline when castro dies.” Knowing the MSM so well, I am not looking forward to reading that on TV. It will say, fidel castro: Cuba’s Leader Dead.
Thanks,
Freedom4cuba
I, for one, want to see the full video. But I’ve yet to find it on the Web. I saw too many deaths perpetrated by his “resistance” to be denied this final closure. As for Pinochet, of course he was a dictator. What pisses me off is the media’s disregard for intellectual honesty and consistency, by refusing to call castro what he is: a tyrant, a dictator of the worst kind.
We popped open two bottles of champagne last night to celebrate.
Nothing like when Castro goes, though. I’ll need at least a case of champagne and lots of fireworks. My car horn will probably wear out. As will my voice from screaming…
HE’S DEAD JIM!
If anyone comes across the link to the full Saddam execution please post it.
I found the full execution vid. Here it is in case anyone wants to see it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521
Thanks for the video link Mike. What a shame that it was all over so quickly. Perhaps they should have thrown some acid on his face first and let him wither in pain, so he could have felt the pain so many of his victims experienced, or perhaps they should have gased him so he would die an excruciating death, slowly, as befits the type of animal that he was and his sons were.
~N
Happy New year to everyone at Babalu Blog. May this coming year be the year Cuba is free of the ass and his equally asshole of a brother. I have to say I enjoyed this video how awful I know but to see a tyrant get what he did to countless others was a treat.
Here’s the video of Saddam taking the plunge with the noose around his neck!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=863ce7d4a3
The ex-drug czar under the Clinton administration, General Barry “castro is not involved in drug trafficking” McCaffrey, has already made his rounds on MSNBC voicing how “understandably it is that the Iraqi people rejoice in the death of Saddam Hussein.” After all, he claimed, “Saddam was a tyrant who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for 30 yrs.” He continued by stating that “Saddam murdered thousands of his countrymen.”
Let’s see what this castro sympathizer and the MSM has to say when news of fidel’s death are finally made public.
Articles about Saddam Hussein in the NEW YORK TIMES:
Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq with Violence and Fear, Dies.
Dictator Who Ruled Iraq with Violence Is Hanged for Crimes Against Humanity.
Articles about Saddam Hussein in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE:
Hussein legacy: Megalomaniac, Nationalist Leader.
Please note on the words used in these articles: defiant dictator, violence, fear, crimes against humanity, and megalomaniac. Do you think they will use the same language when referring to castro? Think not!
By the way… so far there’s been no condemnation by the MSM for the rejoicing and jubilation of Iraqi-Americans (or Iraqis for that matter) at Saddam’s death. I guess they save all their condemnation for Cuban-Americans ONLY.
Well, it’s my first time commenting here even though I’ve read this blog for some time (Val probably remembers me from the one e-mail we exchanged a while back). I certainly hope the New Year has good things in store for Iraq, Iran, and of course, Cuba. Happy New Year guys!
So how does killing Saddam help in the war against terrorism? Besides, he did not even stand in trial for his atrocities against the Kurds. Was it worth 3000 American lives and God knows how many Iraquis? You can bet the Iranians are happy. Roman Catholics should not be, however, for our faith is based on the sanctity of life from conception to its natural end.
So how does killing Saddam help in the war against terrorism? Besides, he did not even stand in trial for his atrocities against the Kurds. Was it worth 3000 American lives and God knows how many Iraquis? You can bet the Iranians are happy. Roman Catholics should not be, however, for our faith is based on the sanctity of life from conception to its natural end.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But it sure as hell serves the cause of JUSTICE. 3,000 Americans haven’t died to see the Butcher of Baghdad be hung. 3,000 Americans have died in the Iraqi Battle of the Long War, taking the fight to the Koran Belt and keeping it away from NYC. I don’t know about Roman Catholics, but every human being with any sense of justice should rejoice at the sight of a mass murderer with a noose around his neck. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!