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Looks like Saddam Hussein will hang pretty soon....

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days.

“The appeal court has approved the death sentence. They (the government) has the right to choose the date starting from tomorrow up to 30 days. After 30 days it will be an obligation to implement the sentence,” the head of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Aref Abdul-Razzaq al-Shahin, told a news conference.

LINK:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061226/ts_nm/iraq_dc

If he's actually executed it will set a precedence. There's a lot of warlords out there that have committed crimes far worse than Hussein. Will this add pressure to the US to go after them??

Hanging?! I thought South Park said that Saddam gets killed by a pack of wild boars.

UofMLaxGoalie11 wrote:Hanging?! I thought South Park said that Saddam gets killed by a pack of wild boars.

Or forced to eat Mekrob..

Beta wrote:If he's actually executed it will set a precedence.

Nothing personal Beta - just a pet peeve.

prec·e·dent [pres-i-duhnt]
–noun
1. Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
2. any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations.

Jolly Roger wrote:

Beta wrote:If he's actually executed it will set a precedence.

Nothing personal Beta - just a pet peeve.

prec·e·dent [pres-i-duhnt]
–noun
1. Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
2. any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations.

Garrrrr!

Maybe his punishment should be that he has to run Iraq.

Sonny wrote:Looks like Saddam Hussein will hang pretty soon....

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days.

“The appeal court has approved the death sentence. They (the government) has the right to choose the date starting from tomorrow up to 30 days. After 30 days it will be an obligation to implement the sentence,” the head of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Aref Abdul-Razzaq al-Shahin, told a news conference.

LINK:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061226/ts_nm/iraq_dc

If he's actually executed it will set a precedence. There's a lot of warlords out there that have committed crimes far worse than Hussein. Will this add pressure to the US to go after them??

Won't the U.S. have to hang George Bush then?

Well, Saddam was convicted of his war crimes that occured in 1982. I guess Mr Rumsfeld decided that he should go meet Mr Hussein himself and show him exactly what he thought about those war crimes that are landing him in the gallows in a couple weeks.



Image is from December 20, 1982.

Hmm.

So Hot Right Now,

Though I disagree with much of what you say, and more often than not with how you say it, some very smart people agree with you in principle.

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138319/1/

Please note that I am by no means advocating the hanging of either man.

Beta wrote:If he's actually executed it will set a precedence. There's a lot of warlords out there that have committed crimes far worse than Hussein. Will this add pressure to the US to go after them??

The US does go after them, right after our government installs them/backs them and then they are no longer any use. Sure the US government backed Iraq in their war with Iran. This of course after the US overthrew the government of Iran in the 1950s to protect western oil interests and then placed the shah in power. The overthrow of the shah in 1979 and the rise of radical muslim students lead to the hostages at the embassy and later the war with Iraq.

And don't forget Reagan's line about the US not negotiating with terrorists in the mid 1980s. A short while later it was brought out in Iran-Contra that we were indeed negotiating with terrorists and using the Iranians as go betweens. Reagan even inscribed a Bible that was given to the Ayatollah Khomeini that was delivered by Oliver North.

Noreiga in Panama. Marcos in the Phillipines. Musaraf in Pakistan, etc...

Ever heard of the School of the Americas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas)? This US-based institution has turned out some of the worst dictators in Latin and and South America.

The SOA has been accused of training members of governments guilty of serious human rights abuses and have been found to advocate techniques that violate accepted international standards, particularly the Geneva Conventions. Graduates of the SOA include men such as Hugo Banzer Suárez, Leopoldo Galtieri, Manuel Noriega, Efraín Ríos Montt, Vladimiro Montesinos, Guillermo Rodríguez, Omar Torrijos, Roberto Viola, Roberto D'Aubuisson, Victor Escobar and Juan Velasco Alvarado. [8] Because many of its students have been associated with death squads, and coups in Latin American countries, the school's acronym is reparsed by its detractors as the "School of the Assassins".

Our government has been doing shady things since day one. We have all slept better at night, whether we acknowledge them or not. Please do not feign shock and outrage when these episodes come to light, though. I am by no means condoning these actions.

Looks like Sunday could be the big day....

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins this Sunday.

The hanging could take place as early as Friday, NBC’s Richard Engel reported.

The U.S. military received a formal request from the Iraqi government to transfer Saddam to Iraqi authorities, NBC reported on Thursday, which is one of the final steps required before his execution.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16384738/?GT1=8816

That'll really be a calming influence on the whole situation there!
Of course, since our mission was to remove Saddam from power, we can once again declare Mission Accomplished and get the hell out of there.

You can do that? Twice?

Agreed that the whole thing smacks of bad timing. Why not tomorrow and be done with it, rather than waiting to make a statement?