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2006-11-05 Iraq

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Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 06:34|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As I said in the earlier post, every effort must be made to insure that he doesn't evade the justice of the court through someone slipping him an 'herbal tea'.

Posted by DanNY 2006-11-05 06:58|| 2006-11-05 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Saddam still has right of appeal + importance of date of execution as per any possible Dem takeover after 2008. IMHO, any plans by Radical Islam for so-called "Amer Hiroshima(s)" new terror events, espec against targets Dubya-GOP, is now paramount iff Amer's enemies intend to PC save Saddam's life.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-05 07:10|| 2006-11-05 07:10|| Front Page Top

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-05 07:19|| 2006-11-05 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 But is it going to be live on TV?

Posted by phil_b 2006-11-05 07:27|| 2006-11-05 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Contents: rope, tree, deposed former tyrant, karmic retribution.
Assembly required.

Posted by Mike 2006-11-05 07:37|| 2006-11-05 07:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Can they put that turd Ramsey Clark next to him?

Posted by Icerigger 2006-11-05 07:55|| 2006-11-05 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to dig out your old They Might Be Giants records:

She wants to see you again
She wants to see you again
Slowly twisting in the wind
Twisting twisting in the wind

Posted by Mike 2006-11-05 08:09|| 2006-11-05 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe is right -- the new Iraqi constitution mandates an automatic appeal of all death sentences.

This is going to drag on for a while. The Ba'athists may attempt (again) a dramatic rescue of him. They will certainly go after the Shias, and v.v., with greater intensity.

The key to how this unfolds is, I think, the Kurds. They want him dead and they want him dead as a criminal and they are willing (so far) to stay in a more-or-less unified Iraq to see that happen.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 08:16|| 2006-11-05 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 "Get out!"

I just love it.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-05 08:26|| 2006-11-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#10 ..Isaiah - a far better prophet than Mohammed ever was - said it best:

[15]Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
[16] They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
[17] That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
[18] All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
[19] But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
[20] Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
[21] Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
[22] For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
[23] I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-05 08:46|| 2006-11-05 08:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Can we also tell Ramsey Clark "Get Out" when he tries to return to the US?

What's he doing defending Sadam in the first place?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-05 08:46|| 2006-11-05 08:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Just the latest in a series of dictators he has defended.

He hates the West so much, he will ally with ANYONE he sees as opposed to it, while convincing himself that he is the true defender of justice and fair play.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 08:51|| 2006-11-05 08:51|| Front Page Top

#13 In addition to defending Saddam, Clark has:

* co-founded A.N.S.W.E.R. and is associated with the Workers World Party

* said that history will show Slobodan Milosevic was right, and praised Milosevic and Saddam as courageous commanders fighting bigger countries

* defended massacres by Saddam on the grounds that when you have a war going on you need to act firmly

* affiliated with VoteToImpeach in an attempt to bring down the Bush administration

Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 08:57|| 2006-11-05 08:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Good. Now let us see if they actually go through with it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-05 09:04|| 2006-11-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#15 Swing, Sammy.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-05 10:11|| 2006-11-05 10:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Wonder where he will be put in the ground?

Anyone else noticed that three of Sammy's lawyers have been killed. Clark has been left alone. Hum.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-11-05 10:17|| 2006-11-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Interestingly, Ramsey Clark was also AG under democrat President lyndon johnson.

He also worked on the blind sheik's defense team with the felon colabarator Lynn Stewart. In fact, the fbi had tried to get the translator to wear a wire so that they could get Clark also, but he declined and Clark continues to work against America.

In and of itself, defending criminals or terrorists is not anti-American. ramsey clark is anti-American because he hates and works agianst America at every possible turn.

Posted by Lanny Ddub 2006-11-05 10:30|| 2006-11-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#18 Judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman

This guy should be a lock for the Chuck Norris Cojones Award.

Posted by Matt 2006-11-05 10:45|| 2006-11-05 10:45|| Front Page Top

#19 I would rather him rot in ail for the rest so we can forget about rather than make him into a Martyr!!!

I think invading Iraq has made Iran stonger.If i Could turn back time i would have hoped Bush invaded Iran as they are the bigger regional threat imho.

Posted by Slinetle Unasing8609 2006-11-05 11:32|| 2006-11-05 11:32|| Front Page Top

#20 "I'm swiiiinging in the rain"

/Gene Kelly

Posted by Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein 2006-11-05 11:41|| 2006-11-05 11:41|| Front Page Top

#21 Convicting Hussein for the death of 148 people feels like getting Capone on tax evasion charges, but hey whatever works. Die, bitch.

[recommended pic for future Hussein-related posts: can somebody lift a screencap of Hot Shots, at the end where the bomb falls on Hussein while he's in his lounge chair drinking a cocktail?]

Posted by Vegas Matt 2006-11-05 11:46|| 2006-11-05 11:46|| Front Page Top

#22 On March 2, 1967, President Johnson appointed him to be Attorney General of the United States, an appointment probably influenced by Johnson's expectation that Clark's father, Associate Justice Tom C. Clark, would resign from the Supreme Court to avoid a conflict of interest. Johnson wanted a vacancy to be created on the Court so he could appoint Thurgood Marshall, the first African American justice. The elder Clark resigned from the supreme court on June 12, 1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark

Posted by Darrell 2006-11-05 11:50|| 2006-11-05 11:50|| Front Page Top

#23 OT: Hey, we've got a little Army of Matts forming here.

Posted by Matt 2006-11-05 12:14|| 2006-11-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#24 I'd love to see the video of the court bailiffs yanking Saddam up from his seat to face justice. A little hanging to go before the big one.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-05 13:32|| 2006-11-05 13:32|| Front Page Top

#25 "It was not wise and the government, not the court, has gone to the extreme with issuing this sentence, even in advance," Salih al-Mutlaq told the al-Arabiya satellite television station. "This government will be responsible for the consequences, with the deaths of hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands, whose blood will be shed," Al-Mutlaq said.

The usual veiled terrorist threats. "Opposing our will shall cause the death of millions!" (And it will all be your fault!) So, just exactly what do they have in mind for Saddam? A spanking?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-05 13:34|| 2006-11-05 13:34|| Front Page Top

#26 Allahu akbar!

Posted by gorb 2006-11-05 13:41|| 2006-11-05 13:41|| Front Page Top

#27 Arab-Americans celebrate the news in Dearborn, MI.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-05 14:21|| 2006-11-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

#28 So What. What it has to do with us? Our young nen and women are killed there for what?

Posted by Annon 2006-11-05 15:40|| 2006-11-05 15:40|| Front Page Top

#29 Oh, maybe because Saddam posed a serious threat to us? What with his links to a variety of terror activities around the world.

You know, that sort of thing.

Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 15:45|| 2006-11-05 15:45|| Front Page Top

#30 About 6,000 US soldiers were killed in post-war Germany. The same question--for what?

If you can answer that one, then you can answer yours.

If you can't, then any further elaboration is meaningless.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-05 15:49|| 2006-11-05 15:49|| Front Page Top

#31 U-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu!!!!

I'll wait until Amnesia International confirms the hanging with a sternly worded rebuke.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-11-05 16:09|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-11-05 16:09|| Front Page Top

#32 "Life for the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!"
I don't think that's gonna mean what he thinks it means.

Posted by Darrell 2006-11-05 16:11|| 2006-11-05 16:11|| Front Page Top

#33 Now serving number 56.
Step right up.
A short drop with a sudden stop.

Posted by Capsu 78 2006-11-05 16:44|| 2006-11-05 16:44|| Front Page Top

#34 I got an e-mail from a lefty that gives the compulsory, "Saddam deserves it, BUT"...(wrings hands) "oh the bloodshed that the evil Bush has wrought on the peaceful kite flying folk of Iraq .

I was tempted to write back ... but what is the point? For people like him, it's all about hating Bush, hating Cheney, and blaming Israel, America, Christians, and Rethuglicans.

For him and others like him, it is just a game where NPR and the MSM tells them what to say to be cool, and they repeat it.

Posted by anon 2006-11-05 16:49|| 2006-11-05 16:49|| Front Page Top

#35 What we need is the Hangman from "Blazing Saddles". "Everyone is equal in my eye."

Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-11-05 16:50|| 2006-11-05 16:50|| Front Page Top

#36 #4 But is it going to be live on TV?
Sorry, this one will be on Pay Per View.
Ramsey Clarke should be on the undercard, but not if means we would need to have Jimmy Carter as a ref. Participant, OK just not a ref.

Posted by Capsu 78 2006-11-05 17:04|| 2006-11-05 17:04|| Front Page Top

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