Death For “The Butcher Of Baghdad”
Saddam To Hang
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Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity sentenced to death by hanging.
Hussein was convicted of ordering the killings of 148 men and boys from the town of Dujail, about 35 miles north of Baghdad, following a failed assassination attempt against him there in 1982.
Ten of those killed in Saddam's brutal repression of the Shiite town were boys ranging in ages from 11 to 17 at the time of the incident. They were jailed until they were 18, then hanged. In addition to the killings, the town's buildings were razed and it's orchards destroyed.
Read on.
The five-judge panel, also issued death sentences for two other defendants, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Hussein's half-brother, who was head of Iraq's domestic intelligence agency under Hussein; and Awad al-Bandar, president of Hussein's revolutionary court.
Others were convicted and sentenced to jail. Iraq's former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, his son Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid, and Ali Dayih Ali, party officials Dujail believed responsible for the Dujail arrests, were sentence to 15 years in prison for torture and premeditated murder.
Mohammed Azawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was acquitted for lack of evidence and immediately freed.
Hussein didn't take his sentencing well. He refused to rise for his verdict until Chief Judge Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman ordered guards to force him to his feet.
"Long live the people!" Hussein shouted as the verdict began. "Down with the stooges! Down with the invaders! God is great!"
Iraqis celebrated the death sentence despite a nation-wide lockdown. Celebratory gunfire rang out as Iraqis expressed joy by racing to rooftops, front yards and windows to fire into the air. National television showed smiling Iraqis dancing in the streets.
The death sentences won't be carried out quickly. Under Iraqi law, death sentences automatically trigger an appeal to the appellate chamber of the trial court, so any executions would likely be subject to a delay of at least several months.
Hussein is on trial in a second case, charged with genocide for the killings of as many as 100,000 Kurds, many with poison gas, in the 1987-88 Anfal campaign. If the appeals panel rules against him and upholds his death sentence in the Dujail, Hussein could be executed before the conclusion of the second trial. If upheld, the executions must be carried out within 30 days.
Saddam has been given the justice he denied to Iraqi during his brutal tyrannical reign. This is another important step on Iraq's road to freedom.
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I was actually a little surprised by this. Given the hand that we've had in setting up the incipient Iraqi justice system, clemency wouldn't have been unexpected. Of course, Hussein may now get the obligatory twenty-five year stay on death row, complete with a big-time book deal and NPR stardom.
Then I thought, thank God at least we won't have yet another butcher dying peacefully in his bed to thumb his nose at humanity for the rest of time.
And then I thought, what the heck is wrong with people, that butchers like this keep coming to power? Is there any way to keep it from happening again?
Not in areas with poverty, no education, and one overwhelming culture. The more educated, the more consumerist, the more tolerant and cosmopolitan a nation becomes the less likely that such a person will come into power.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
in three ... two ... one.
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[Threadjack, copyright violations and a username that pokes fun at mentally handicapped people*! What's the matter; pulling wings off of flies is too risky for you? - Moe Lane]
[*Which does not include Bush, btw: although it's funny that the people who claim that never stop to think what believing it says about them...]
a topic related to polling, the NYT, or the tooth fairy.
Come on, if you're going to try and discourage us at least keep it on topic....
Too bad the NYT seems to be working with old data. The new data will come in Tuesday evening and it's not looking good for the Dems. 8*)
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Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
A handful of us went to special classes set up on the top floor of an old elementary school building named after the late President Garfield. To get there, I had to wait at a bus stop in front of the regular elementary school to be picked up by a SHORT BUS and taken to Garfield for the special, segregated classes.
We were not mentally handicapped. The person who used this moniker, duly destroyed by Moe, was an idiot.
If the appeals panel rules against him and upholds his death sentence in the Dujail, Hussein could be executed before the conclusion of the second trial. If upheld, the executions must be carried out within 30 days.
The apprentice has surpassed the master, it seems.
When Iraqis were setting up their judicial system, they looked around at the failures of others in order to learn from others' mistakes. Apparently one of the mistakes they avoided was our habit of leaving people on death row for 30 years.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
So how many appeals would it take before you'd be satisfied, and why?
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
I'm not sure if I do; I'd like to see justice for the Kurdish genocide finally come about, and a conviction there will help with the subordinate cases.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
I thought he was saying that the new Iraqi government has now become as brutal as the old.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
Was it really worth it?
Saddam was a bad guy, no doubt, but there are plenty "worse" leaders out in this world.
Now put yourself in the shoes of one of those "worse" leaders: the USA just invaded Iraq and took out its leader. Would you be scared that the USA would be coming for you next?
No surprise that Iran and North Korea are seeking nuclear weapons as a result.
Gaddafi was VERY quick to publically abandon his WMD programs after we invaded Iraq. We got 2 for the price of 1 there.
N.K. and Iran had nuclear programs LONG before 2003. They aren't starting their programs as a result of anything happening in Iraq. They MAY have second thoughts about their programs if they get some UN security council resolutions against them. N.K. was encouraged to come back to the 6 party talks when they saw we're actually SERIOUS about our stance.
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Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.
around the time of Gadhafi's surrender that Libya was actually serving as a hub for other rogue nations' WMD development efforts. It may or may not be true, and it may be something the administration decided not to make public despite its PR value, for whatever reason, much as other WMD evidence confiscated from Iraq.
Be that as it may, I found this archive that makes it look like one of the very most unpublicized successes of the GWOT.
We should NOEVER confront our enemies!
It's much better that we build a huge wall around ourselves and just let the rest of the world alone! Better still, let's NOT build a wall, just let the rest of the world alone, and let them come to us. Heck, who needs tall building anyhow?
Never said we shouldn't confront our enemies. But I think we should be VERY hesitant before we invade a sovereign country, even if the country's leader is a bad person.
Look, war is not what it used to be. We don't go and invade countries and wipe them off the map like we used to. Our objectives these days involve nation-building and general policing -- unfortunately, a portion of that often involves a lot of politics. An army was never designed for those types of jobs.
VERY hesitant before we invade a sovereign country
Sovereign country!
Dictionary definition: Sovereign, adj 1.supreme 2.independent
Exactly which definition describes Iraq when Saddam was the dictator?
Yeah...much better to dialogue with the guy. Never mind the fact that he was shooting at US planes every day. Never mind that he was violating 18 UN resolutions. Never mind that he was violating the terms of the treaty that ended hostilities in 1991.
Watch out Luxembourg, here we come!
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"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
Never said we shouldn't confront our enemies. But I think we should be VERY hesitant before we invade a sovereign country, even if the country's leader is a bad person.
Look, war is not what it used to be. We don't go and invade countries and wipe them off the map like we used to. Our objectives these days involve nation-building and general policing -- unfortunately, a portion of that often involves a lot of politics. An army was never designed for those types of jobs.
before we invade a sovereign country"
You mean like getting three UN resolutions, enforcing no fly zones for several years, sending repeated warnings and occasional missile strikes, building a seventy nation coalition,
and setting a final date for compliance?
You leftards are really something else with your revisionism.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
You're truely dense if you believe that North Korea's nuclear programs have ANYTHING to do with out removing Saddam from power. North Korea has admited to building their weapons since the 1990's under the nose of Clinton's negotiation.
All three Axis of Evil countries were trying to get their hands on Nuclear Weapons and WMD's long before we went into Iraq. Right now, the only country which does not has WMD's is the one we invaded.
Is it because I is black? - Ali G
doubtless Bush, er Rove, wanted this just before the election.
A cynical manipulation of the voters, throwing red meat to the base, taking independent minds off administartion failures, obscuring real scandals like gay, unheard of, Christian ministers, Denny Hastert not resigning for Foley not having sex with a page, the impending lawsuit against Karl Rove by Joe Plame & Valerie Wilson, the terrible economy, & lest we forget, the fact that Bush used to drink alcohol twenty years ago.
We won't be fooled, we'll read the NY Times on election day, and we'll vote for people who will turn us upside down to shake the nickles out of our pockets and give Texas to Islamic resistance fighters, I mean insurgents.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
When I saw the news this morning I told the wife, The leftards will be screaming that Bush told them to do it right now to help
with the election. You people are really silly.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Just figured out that was tounge in cheek, DONT DO THAT! You cannot spoof the lefties anymore because nothing you say can be as weird as the stuff they actually say.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Ya gotta look at the poster sometimes to catch the irony!
liberal parody material. Not Ready for Prime Time Players salaries to be reduced 50% as they will only have to produce material to parody conservatives in foreseeable future.
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"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
Evidence?
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1), that you meant to say that Bush is still an alcoholic. True: you don't stop being one, you just stop drinking.
2), that you meant to say that Bush is still drinking. If that's true, by all means, let's see some evidence*.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
*And, for the record? It would be a really, really, really bad idea to try to make the claim that AA is the only legitimate way to get off and stay off the sauce. I react quite badly to people who slander my parents.
Not that you were going to make that argument, of course.
Hoo boy, I hope that wasn't the AA point of view talking from him. I just figured it was the usual lefty-lying-about-Bush going on. I hope it is, even, given the alternative.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
National television showed smiling Iraqis dancing in the streets.
Because all we're going to see here are pictures of whatever Sunni violence ensues and hear about how we're plunged the country closer to civil war.