AP is reporting that Saddam's half-brother and the head of his kangaroo court system have been hanged. They were initially spared so Saddam could have his own special day.
The AP wants to make sure you know that there was some international protest by people who didn't like Saddam being made fun of prior to his drop; also, people who weren't satisfied with his guilt and thought he should keep drawing breath. The AP fails to mention that the predicted outburst of pro-Saddam violence never happened, and that Iraqi street reaction leaned heavily to favorable.
Updates:
Gateway Pundit has art of the pair at trial.
Reuters "Botched Hanging Raises Arab Suspicions." Low safety standards of Iraqi executioners has fatal consequences for Saddam kin.
More Reuters. Cowardly murderers "appeared frightened" as they faced the music.
Reuters turns out to be the mass murderer execution news service of record this morning: Hanging mishap an "Act of God."
Government adviser Bassam al-Husseini said the damage to the body was "an act of God". During his trial for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ites from Dujail, a witness said Barzan's agents put people in a meat grinder.
This article also discusses the tricky intricacies of the executioner's art, giving 'em enough rope to snap the neck without pulling the head off. This clearly calls for an investigation into who caused this man to be killed by an improperly strung noose!
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Reminds me about the joke about the three men sentenced to die by guillotine.
The first sticks his head through the device, the executioner lets go of the string. But the blade only goes 6 inches before it gets stuck.
The onlookers are amazed and the officials declare that this is an act of God and let the man go free.
The second man goes to his fate. This time though, the blade goes twelve inches and gets stuck.
Again, the onlookers are amazed and the officials declare that this is an act of God and let the second man go free.
Then the third guy steps up and says, "If you want to get that thing to work you really ought to oil those grooves."
Botched? They're dead, ain't they?
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The US war in Iraq was a con job but now that we're there, we can't leave without risking national security interests.
Good job Bushie. Your and Cheney's and the neocon cabal's and the sycophantic pro-war authoritarian UScitizens, YOUR pre-emptive war of aggression is the biggest strategic blunder in the history of US foriegn policy.
Hanged AND decapitated. A two-fer
Note to the "o'reilly" guy: Sorry, but Bush did not back a regime that is as experienced as the regime you backed. Saddam knew how to execute people. What was his death toll again? A million? A little shy of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao .. Lefties love dictators -- hate democracy
Saddam knew how to execute people.
Quality. The left recognizes quality in a despot.
A million? Wow, strait out of your butt, huh? Do you have the figures for the current Iraqi death toll of this war in there too?
Anyway, Jules needs a little pat on the head and seat in someone's lap so he can be explained the difference between justice and lynching. Knowing definitively that someone is guilty isn't good enough to justify killing them without a proper trial, at least in justice systems that don't involve pitchforks and torches.
This could have been Nuremberg. Instead, it was OJ; an absolute sham trial. Quit trying to justify the ends and hang your heads in shame.
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