Slate offers it for all comers. Christopher Hitchens says he was lynched. Jon Wiener says he was killed at the behest of the White House to keep him quiet.
Capital punishment, which was outlawed in 1973 and restored in 1976 at the whim of the U.S. Supreme Court, is allowed in 38 states. Hanging is allowed in Washington state, if the convict requests it, and in New Hampshire, if lethal injection is not possible.
The last hanging in the U.S. was in Delaware in January 1996.
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Won’t watch it…seen enough…
He was tried in a court by his own people,
Iraqis executed him..it’s done…IMHO. I’m a little surprised to find it here! Either way…I won’t give it one more minute.
I am quite astonished that this video has been added to this site.
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I don’t think it is an appropriate addition.
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I’m not sure why it was added. Perhaps to lure folks to the site to watch it.
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This man was a bastard and added nothing to the human race…however…a video of his final moments, posted on a website is tacky to say the least.
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I’m sure there shall be those who say he deserved nothing better than what he gave…yet it still makes me think that, 2 wrongs don’t make a right.
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I think putting this video up is shameful, regardless of what the monster did.
and will continue to pay for.
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The problem is that there were a number of aspects of the trial and execution that make it look like a sectarian Shiite attempt to get back at the Sunnis. Juan Cole even has reports that Muqtada al-Sadr is in posssession of the noose.
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Bush has not defined victory in Iraq or the steps to achieve it, but of whatever stuff his fantasy is made it has to include an end to the Sunni insurgency. As his policy is more guns than diplomacy, that increasingly looks like ending Sunnis — rather than just their insurgency. If the government of Iraq runs an execution as a Shiite militia event stoking the unseemly ravanchism of the Shiia, then the government looks even less legitimate to the Iraqi Sunnis than it did before.
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That means more insurgency, more dead Sunnis, and ultimately the danger of intervention by other neighboring Arab countries with Sunni majorities.
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This video is unpleasant to look at.
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The entire Iraq occupation has been unpleasant to look at.
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Get used to it. We’ll be there at least two and a half more years.
I’ll never support the death penalty in the U.S., but not because I don’t think there are people that deserve to die. The world is certainly better off without Sadaam Hussein.
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I’m not surprised this video is here. I’m actually more surprised that there was a hanging in Delaware as recently as 1996.
I’m glad somebody brought this up. Here is another theory on the timing of the execution: Last week President Ford died. Right after, they released his interview with Bob Woodward in which he criticizes the Iraq War. What better way to distract the media from that message than to get Saddam front and center with a little hanging?
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Or am I just being cynical again?
that they killed Gerald Ford to distract the media? đŸ˜‰
Black Helicopters, whoop whoop whoop whoop.
You didn’t find it the least bit curious that the final court order to kill Saddam came right before the U.S. election in November?
It is not my nature to find dark government conspiracies lurking in every doorway.
Government is usually too incompentent to successfully lurk. Government’s more like the stupid fat kid playing hide-and-seek behind a skinny tree.
I seem to remember a certain hard working FBI agent seeking whistleblower protection for complaining about government incompetence when certain field agents were trying to get into the computer of Zacharias Moussawi and trying to investigate the odd confluence of Arab flight training students just before 9/11. But when she went to Congress to testify, suddenly George Bush decides he does want a department of homeland security, and John Ashcroft remembered to announce the arrest of Jose Padilla, the dirty bomber, who had been in custody for two months.
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Coincidence? Incompetence? Or just plain PR from the White House?
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Frank Rich explores this in detail in his latest book, the Greatest Story Every Sold (a must read!).
from the coma you have apparently been in for the past six years.
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You have a great deal of catching up to do.
…but I can get that from the college kids at DU.
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Show me what ya got on the conspirisy thing, I’m getting bored.
…with a commentary on why it’s worth watching and considering. BUT – not at the top, nothing that jumps out at you. Just available for interest. In fact, I think David posted that here a few days ago.
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It isn’t gratuitious violence, and in a reality based world, it’s something that needs to be considered.
While the chaos surrounding the execution was unfortunate, I’m not sure that Saddam Hussein presents a good opportunity to be outraged by the death penalty.
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Why is it, by the eay, that courts only act on a “whim” when one disagrees with the decision? I’m guilty of this as well, but it is nevertheless amusing.
Was deciding it was unconstitutional, and then deciding it was constitutional, in just three years.
Pajamas Media – the Reuters of the Blogosphere – is reporting that Ayatollah Ali Khameni (not to be confused with his predecessor, Khomeni) has died – leaving no Sharia governmental authority in Iran, and total control to that nice young President with the blog and the nuclear dreams, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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THAT could be interesting….
I’m not sure that’s how Iran’s government works, Peter. I realize that like many Republicans you may slaver at the idea of having the guy you’ve demonized actually be in charge of something, but that ain’t the case.
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The true power in Iran is held by the 12-member Guardian Council, which has among its powers to dismiss the President if he is incapable of performing his functions. The Council serves at the pleasure of the Supreme Leader, late the Ayatollah Khamanei, but is currently chaired by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (biography here). He would be the natural second-in-command, at least in a caretaker function. Not to say there won’t be some tug-o-war in the aftermath, but he is the inside favorite to succeed.
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Saying that Ahmadinejad is in charge of Iran if the Supreme Leader dies is like saying that Elizabeth II is in charge of the UK if the prime minister dies.