sadamm hussain

[stedmansmommy]

I didn't go through and read all the replies, but I heard that he would be executed by tomorrow...and then I heard that no, he can't be executed on Sat., because of some stuff with his religion?? All I know is, I can't wait until the day comes!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!

[suz]

Originally Posted by sharong

They are saying right now on Fox news that by 10PM ET the hanging is expected to take place. They said something about the witness are starting to gather...I take it to mean the people that will actually witness the hanging. It's him and two other guys. Earlier they were saying that most think he will walk out with a smile...we'll see how long that smile lasts. At least he knows he's going to die. Think of the poor people that had no idea. Too bad.....so sad LOL.

If they show the video this weekend as they say, are you planning on watching?

I don't know if I would watch it or not. Seems to me like watching it on TV, it wouldn't seem real. Movie producers and directors now-a-days make things appear so real, it'd be hard to tell if he's really being hung or if it's another movie!!! I think it's necessary tho. With all the evil he has done not only to our soldiers, but to his own people, he should be executed!! When the soldiers found where he was hiding, they should have done away with him then and there. I'm still wondering when or if they'll ever find BenLaudin!! He should be executed right beside Hussein IMHO!!
Suz

[Rockster's Mom]

Originally Posted by Yorkie3

I would never want his execution or anyone else's made for public viewing. I don't want to watch someone put to death or have a child see it by mistake. This world is cruel enough......

I agree that we should not have televise or have public executions, but I do believe that they should make teens and/or adults who are going down the wrong path see want the ultimate punishment is. Maybe it would scared some of them to straighten out the act and live a better life.

[red98vett]

Originally Posted by sharong

They are saying right now on Fox news that by 10PM ET the hanging is expected to take place. They said something about the witness are starting to gather...I take it to mean the people that will actually witness the hanging. It's him and two other guys. Earlier they were saying that most think he will walk out with a smile...we'll see how long that smile lasts. At least he knows he's going to die. Think of the poor people that had no idea. Too bad.....so sad LOL.

If they show the video this weekend as they say, are you planning on watching?

That man probably would smile and go to his death thinking he's a martyr.... Evil is evil and whatever happens to him - he deserves that and more. I don't know what a 'respectful hanging' is but I hope it's as un-respectful as possible....but the idea of him in the worst prison ever is a good revenge too -

[MeganS]

Originally Posted by sharong

They are saying right now on Fox news that by 10PM ET the hanging is expected to take place. They said something about the witness are starting to gather...I take it to mean the people that will actually witness the hanging. It's him and two other guys. Earlier they were saying that most think he will walk out with a smile...we'll see how long that smile lasts. At least he knows he's going to die. Think of the poor people that had no idea. Too bad.....so sad LOL.

If they show the video this weekend as they say, are you planning on watching?

are you kidding me? Last year in school we had to watch a movie on the Holocaust. There was one point where they were getting ready to hang some of the Jewish people and I had to close my eyes. and those were actors. I think I'd die if I saw it happen for real.

I think the idea that they would show it publically is sick. I know he was a sick person...but the wrong kind of person could see that hanging. It could be a child. I don't think there are many people who would want a child to be able to view something like that.

I still wish they hadn't done it. I like my idea more. I think I should run the world.

[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by MeganS

I think I should run the world.

That's what he thought, smartypants, and look where it got him!

[red98vett]

LOL Mike and Megan....I actually think Megan has a great point - if she ran the world all the dogs would be safe...there'd be no hunger and people would never fight - I say Megan for President !! Hey - even though she's a teen she can grow INTO her job

and it is DONE. The Monster is Dead.

[MyTrixie143]

Originally Posted by red98vett

LOL Mike and Megan....I actually think Megan has a great point - if she ran the world all the dogs would be safe...there'd be no hunger and people would never fight - I say Megan for President !! Hey - even though she's a teen she can grow INTO her job

and it is DONE. The Monster is Dead.

So they hung him already??


I feel he will get the worst punishment imaginable which would be to live all enternity in hell. I am a christian and believe in heaven and hell and hell will be the ultimate worst punishment for him. He certantly won't be smiling there!!

[MyTrixie143]

Alright here it is from yahoo




By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers 36 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Saddam Hussein struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. But as his final moments approached, he grew calm.
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He clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows, and in one final moment of defiance, refused to have a hood pulled over his head before facing the same fate he was accused of inflicting on countless thousands during a quarter-century of ruthless power.

A man whose testimony helped lead to Saddam's conviction and execution before sunrise said he was shown the body because "everybody wanted to make sure that he was really executed."

"Now, he is in the garbage of history," said Jawad Abdul-Aziz, who lost his father, three brothers and 22 cousins in the reprisal killings that followed a botched 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the Shiite town of Dujail.

Iraqi television showed what it said was Saddam's body, his head uncovered and the neck twisted at a sharp angle.

The footage showed the man identified as Saddam lying on a stretcher, covered in a white shroud. His neck and part of the shroud have what appear to be bloodstains. His eyes are closed.

In Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, hundreds of people danced in the streets while others fired guns in the air to celebrate. The government did not impose a round-the-clock curfew as it did last month when Saddam was convicted to thwart any surge in retaliatory violence.

It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader who had vexed three U.S. presidents. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict.

The execution took place during the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops, with the toll reaching 108.

President Bush said in a statement issued from his ranch in Texas that bringing Saddam to justice "is an important milestone on
Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on terror."

He said that the execution marks the "end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops" and cautioned that Saddam's death will not halt the violence in Iraq.

Within hours of his death, at least 46 people died and more than 80 were wounded in two bombings ? 31 in one attack south of the capital and 15 in a Baghdad blast.

Ali Hamza, a 30-year-old university professor, said he went outside to shoot his gun into the air after he learned of Saddam's death.

"Now all the victims' families will be happy because Saddam got his just sentence," said Hamza, who lives in Diwaniyah, a Shiite town 80 miles south of Baghdad.

But people in the Sunni-dominated city of Tikrit, once a power base of Saddam, lamented his death.

"The president, the leader Saddam Hussein is a martyr and God will put him along with other martyrs. Do not be sad nor complain because he has died the death of a holy warrior," said Sheik Yahya al-Attawi, a cleric at the Saddam Big Mosque.

Police blocked the entrances to Tikrit and said nobody was allowed to leave or enter the city for four days. Despite the security precaution, gunmen took to the streets of Tikrit, carrying pictures of Saddam, shooting into the air, and calling for vengeance.

Security forces also set up roadblocks at the entrance to another Sunni stronghold, Samarra, and a curfew was imposed after about 500 people took to the streets protesting the execution of Saddam.

A couple hundred people also protested the execution just outside the Anbar capital of Ramadi, and more than 2,000 people demonstrated in Adwar, the village south of Tikrit where Saddam was captured by U.S. troops hiding in an underground bunker.

In a statement, Saddam's lawyers said that in the aftermath of his death, "the world will know that Saddam Hussein lived honestly, died honestly, and maintained his principles."

"He did not lie when he declared his trial null," they said.

Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were not hanged along with their former leader as originally planned. Officials wanted to reserve the occasion for Saddam alone.

"We wanted him to be executed on a special day," National Security adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie told state-run al-Iraqiya television.

Sami al-Askari, the political adviser of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told The Associated Press that Saddam initially resisted when he was taken by Iraqi guards but was composed in his final moments.

He said Saddam was clad in a black suit, hat and shoes, rather than prison garb. His hat was removed and his hands tied shortly before the noose was slipped around his neck.

Saddam repeated a prayer after a Sunni Muslim cleric who was present.

"Saddam later was taken to the gallows and refused to have his head covered with a hood," al-Askari said. "Before the rope was put around his neck, Saddam shouted: 'God is great. The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab.'"

Iraqi state television showed footage of guards in ski masks placing a noose around Saddam's neck. Saddam appeared calm as he stood on the metal framework of the gallows. The footage cuts off just before the execution.

Saddam was executed at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, al-Askari said. During his regime, Saddam had numerous dissidents executed in the facility, located in a neighborhood that is home to the Iraqi capital's most important Shiite shrine ? the Imam Kazim shrine.

Al-Askari said the government had not decided what to do with Saddam's body.

The Iraqi prime minister's office released a statement that said Saddam's execution was a "strong lesson" to ruthless leaders who commit crimes against their own people.

"We strongly reject considering Saddam as a representative of any sect in Iraq because the tyrant only represented his evil soul," the statement said. "The door is still open for those whose hands are not tainted with the blood of innocent people to take part in the political process and work on rebuilding Iraq."

The execution came 56 days after a court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from Dujail. Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam's appeal Monday and ordered him executed within 30 days.

A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam's execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge.

U.S. troops cheered as news of Saddam's execution appeared on television at the mess hall at Forward Operating Base Loyalty in eastern Baghdad. But some soldiers expressed doubt that Saddam's death would be a significant turning point for Iraq.

"First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial," said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. "So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?"

At his death, he was in the midst of a second trial, charged with genocide and other crimes for a 1987-88 military crackdown that killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq. Experts said the trial of his co-defendants was likely to continue despite his execution.

Many people in Iraq's Shiite majority were eager to see the execution of a man whose Sunni Arab-dominated regime oppressed them and Kurds. Before the hanging, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Friday called Saddam's execution "God's gift to Iraqis."

In a farewell message to Iraqis posted Wednesday on the Internet, Saddam said he was giving his life for his country as part of the struggle against the U.S. "Here, I offer my soul to God as a sacrifice, and if he wants, he will send it to heaven with the martyrs," he said.

One of Saddam's lawyers, Issam Ghazzawi, said the letter was written by Saddam on Nov. 5, the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal in the Dujail killings.

Najeeb al-Nauimi, a member of Saddam's legal team, said U.S. authorities maintained physical custody of Saddam until the execution to prevent him being humiliated publicly or his corpse being mutilated, as has happened to previous Iraqi leaders deposed by force. He said they didn't want anything to happen to further inflame Sunni Arabs.

"This is the end of an era in Iraq," al-Nauimi said from Doha, Qatar. "The Baath regime ruled for 35 years. Saddam was vice president or president of Iraq during those years. For Iraqis, he will be very well remembered. Like a martyr, he died for the sake of his country."

Iraq's death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals.

Saddam's own regime used executions and extrajudicial killings as a tool of political repression, both to eliminate real or suspected political opponents and to maintain a reign of terror.

In the months after he seized power on July 16, 1979, he had hundreds of members of his own party and army officers slain. In 1996, he ordered the slaying of two sons-in-law who had defected to Jordan but returned to Baghdad after receiving guarantees of safety.

Saddam built Iraq into a one of the Arab world's most modern societies, but then plunged the country into an eight-year war with neighboring
Iran that killed hundreds of thousands of people on both sides and wrecked Iraq's economy.

When the U.S. invaded in 2003, Iraqis had been transformed from among the region's most prosperous people to some of its most impoverished.


So he did put up a fight, wasn't smiling after all!!

[Gazou]

So what ?

Bush have never been able to capture the real criminal of 9/11 .

Ben Laden is free .

[MeganS]

Originally Posted by Gazou

So what ?

Bush have never been able to capture the real criminal of 9/11 .

Ben Laden is free .

THANK YOU!

Sorry, I don't want to start some political debate or anything, but supposedly the war was started to catch Osamo Binladen. He's still free. and Saddam Hussein is dead.

[luv4yorkies]

Originally Posted by MeganS

THANK YOU!

Sorry, I don't want to start some political debate or anything, but supposedly the war was started to catch Osamo Binladen. He's still free. and Saddam Hussein is dead.

Ditto Same here I didnt want to start a debate but its the same thing i was thinking.

[Olivier]

I really don't see the need of having thread like this on a Yorkie forum . It should be deleted .

[Gingergirlsmom]

Originally Posted by Olivier

I really don't see the need of having thread like this on a Yorkie forum . It should be deleted .

IMO, I have to disagree. This is why there is an OT forum on this site. No one needs to read any threads they aren't interested in. No hard feelings, jmo.

[Rae Rae]

I'm with some others...what ever happened to catching Bin Laden? Oh wait..that was Bush's excuse for the war

I just wish our soldiers would be able to return home

As for saddam, he's worthless, just as good dead as he was a live..actually better. The world needs less sickos like him. I really am not for televising a hanging, but he didn't care about anyone, so why should anyone care about him? I don't know if I would watch it or not..probably not just because it doesn'tinterest me. But Yorkie3 has a good point, I definitly wouldn't want any little kids to see that.