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Iraq
Firing Squad Will Befit My Status — Saddam
2006-01-04
Jailed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told two of his lawyers that if he is sentenced to death for war crimes, he would rather die by firing squad than by hanging, The Washington Times said yesterday. “I don’t value this life that much. Every human being has his time to go,” lawyer Issam Ghazzawi said Saddam told him when they met in a basement of a Baghdad courthouse on Dec. 7 during a break in his trial. Ghazzawi said he and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark raised the possibility that the former dictator might be sentenced to death if convicted of war crimes. “Of course I’m not guilty, but I know they want me dead,” Saddam said. “Threatening me with death doesn’t mean anything,” he told the two lawyers. “I don’t care less. The life of any one Iraqi is no less valuable than mine.” During his five-hour meeting with Ghazzawi and Clark, Saddam also praised the insurgency, saying it had prevented US attempts to “formulate a new world.”
Posted by:Fred

#17  Firing squad using rocksalt instead of bullets. Just fire away until he finally dies. Exchange clips as often as necessary. Should be rather painful and long but its his request and we aim to please.

The swine that dine on Saddam's corpse will appreciate the added flavoring.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-01-04 13:21  

#16  Subject Saddam to every known recorded Noam Chomsky lecture. Then, hours of Barbra Steisand singing her greatest hits. Next, force him to read every essay written by Dennis Raimondo.

Finally, Saddam receives the death reserved to traitors (he betrayed his people and nation):

Draw and quarter him, pulling him apart with his legs and arms strapped to four M1A1 tanks., each pulling in a different direction.
Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2006-01-04 12:55  

#15  Dress him up in a Playboy Bunny outfit and give him a five minute lead in the First Ever Middeast Tyrant hunt, patterned after the British fox hunts. Although now banned in Britain itself, but which should prove an entertaining import if broadcast live from an overhead blimp on Iraqi prime time.
Posted by: Ptah   2006-01-04 11:22  

#14  All you need is a 1" manila line and a lamp-post in downtown Baghdad.
Posted by: Mike   2006-01-04 10:55  

#13  #11 cascara sagrada and castor oil pie

'moose that's just brilliant. A really horrid mental image, but brilliant all the same.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-01-04 10:21  

#12  I still think we need to find that giant tree limb shredder that he used.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-01-04 09:36  

#11  I'm sure plenty of 8x10 glossies of his hanging will prove to have a far more laxative effect for the regional leaders than eating a cascara sagrada and castor oil pie.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-01-04 09:34  

#10  Nah, release him to Lindie England in his tighty-whities (what a mental image that is). Now, if that's not "torture", well, then, I don't know what is. And, we could sell the sex tape to help fund the war.
Posted by: BA   2006-01-04 08:52  

#9  Just release him to the populace in Kirkuk. They'll give him an il Duce.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-01-04 07:40  

#8  Feed him to the hogs, alive.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2006-01-04 07:21  

#7  Woodchipper, feet first pushed in a quarter inch every half hour
Posted by: djohn66   2006-01-04 05:05  

#6  Crank up the Woodchipper..
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-01-04 04:54  

#5  I'd go for 5 guys with M-79's - all firing live rounds. That'd work for me.
Posted by: .com   2006-01-04 04:32  

#4  At least three strokes, Howard?

Lol, welcome back, bro. :-)
Posted by: .com   2006-01-04 03:54  

#3  Get someone in a Knights Templar outfit to clumsily behead him on shaky vidcam with a Maltese Cross in the background.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-01-04 03:52  

#2  He's only saying this because he knows it will never happen. His anthrax stash will keep him safe forever.
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows   2006-01-04 01:19  

#1  I still say - keel-hauling in shark infested waters.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-01-04 00:33  

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