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2005-04-07 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2005-04-07 12:36:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Except, of course, for those who desire separate but equal Kurdistan, Turkmenostan, Arabostan, Sunnistan, Shiastan, and ... waitaminute ... Assyrians? I thought they were all dead?

Posted by Bobby 2005-04-07 1:01:17 AM|| 2005-04-07 1:01:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said.

GET USED TO IT SADDY... HE HE HE

Posted by BigEd 2005-04-07 1:02:01 AM|| 2005-04-07 1:02:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 He should be reminded of that just before they put him down.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-07 2:04:55 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-07 2:04:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 He realizes that Talabani will sign the document that allows his death sentence to carried out.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-07 3:38:46 AM|| 2005-04-07 3:38:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this guy in Club Fed? Take away the TV.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-07 7:45:21 AM|| 2005-04-07 7:45:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Take away the TV.
No, leave it on. He's watching the people he oppressed for years take back their country. Think of it as slow mental torture. Soon it'll be time for the first trials to start, that'll be even better. He'll know they're testing the legal machinery, warming it up and getting the rust off. When it's all greased and humming along, it'll be his turn in the box.

Posted by Steve 2005-04-07 8:45:16 AM|| 2005-04-07 8:45:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bobby, why would be Assyrians all dead? Is it remotely possible that your edumacayshun is full of holes? Or are you one of these easy, breezy types... air going to one ear hole is coming out unadulterated from another?

Posted by twobyfour 2005-04-07 9:15:46 AM|| 2005-04-07 9:15:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm with Steve. If he doesn't wanna watch, staple his eyelids to his forehead and MAKE him watch

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-07 9:25:25 AM|| 2005-04-07 9:25:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Give him a quick five day trial on one good charge. Obtain a conviction. Sentence him to extinction. Let him cry on appeal. Then whack him and wrap him for delivery to his relatives. He doesn't need TV or toture. They need to do him quickly, fairly and cheaply.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-07 9:31:12 AM|| 2005-04-07 9:31:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 No, leave it on. He's watching the people he oppressed for years take back their country. Think of it as slow mental torture.

this is so, so right.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-04-07 10:03:04 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:03:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 This should be like "A Clockwork Orange" done right. We'll need to use something other than Beethoven though.

Posted by Dar 2005-04-07 10:05:42 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:05:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 "We'll need to use something other than Beethoven though."
Agreed. What about disco? Hours and hours and hours of disco. Very LOUD disco.
He'll be a quivvering mound of jelly, in about a week. Sooner than that, if there is extra Donna Summer.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-04-07 10:32:24 AM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-04-07 10:32:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee.

*snort*

*chortle*

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-04-07 10:33:46 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:33:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 He's got alot to be upset about.

Posted by Crinerong Chomomble9553 2005-04-07 10:34:05 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:34:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 And yet I seem to recall that he got 99.5% of the vote the last time he ran, and Jimmy Carter said the election was fair!

Something doesn't add up here...

Posted by Justrand 2005-04-07 10:43:19 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:43:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 No Sgt Mom, Disco's isn't enought. I'd say Rap 'music'.....

Or would that be considered a WMD?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-07 10:51:25 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:51:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Justrand, Jimmuh does not add up. He is several dozens of peanuts short of full bag.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-07 10:52:56 AM|| 2005-04-07 10:52:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 phil b : He realizes that Talabani will sign the document that allows his death sentence to carried out.

Yes but does Pres Talibani (get used to that monacer Saddy) get to determine "METHOD OF CARRYING OUT SENTENCE"?

GOT SARIN?

Posted by BigEd 2005-04-07 11:05:06 AM|| 2005-04-07 11:05:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 If you listen to it enough, Disco kind of grows on you. Especially if you didn't grow up with Rock and ROll and consider it blasphemy. Believe it or not, it is the same with Hip Hop.

Something that will torture him, play him Bjork, 24/7.

Posted by Penguin 2005-04-07 11:12:10 AM|| 2005-04-07 11:12:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 You're on to something there Penguin. Maybe the songs from Baliwood dance epics would be even better.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-07 11:57:51 AM|| 2005-04-07 11:57:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Slim Whitman. Nana Mouskori. 101 Strings. The Cure. Morissey. Moby. The Smiths. The Shags.

Posted by Mike 2005-04-07 12:22:06 PM|| 2005-04-07 12:22:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Oh my God Mike, nobody is that cruel....

Morissey.... < shudder >

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Cruel and unusual punishment :-)

Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-07 1:30:17 PM|| 2005-04-07 1:30:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 You guys aren't thinking - Human League's Fascination. Instant mental flatline after the fourth playing.

Posted by Raj 2005-04-07 2:10:03 PM|| 2005-04-07 2:10:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 "Feelings... nothing more than feelings..."

Murder! Death! Kill!

Posted by .com 2005-04-07 2:15:16 PM|| 2005-04-07 2:15:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 "And yooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu....
light up my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!"
Or:
"Sky-rockets in sight!
Afternoon deliiiiiiiiiii-iiii-iiight!"

Posted by Dar 2005-04-07 2:26:47 PM|| 2005-04-07 2:26:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 (Clears throat for ultrafeminine alto)....
"Miiidnight at the oosis..."

Zeppelin's "Gallow's Pole" -- though apropos -- is too good for him.

Posted by Rex 2005-04-07 2:55:04 PM|| 2005-04-07 2:55:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Shoeshineboy knows he's about to get spit shined.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-04-07 3:11:49 PM|| 2005-04-07 3:11:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 If you listen to it enough, Disco kind of grows on you

Okay, got the flightless waterfowl on the list.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-07 3:32:46 PM|| 2005-04-07 3:32:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 I agree that this is a perfect torment for him.

As for music:
meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

Posted by Dishman 2005-04-07 3:36:32 PM|| 2005-04-07 3:36:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Hell. Give him 24/7 Barney "I love U, U love me"!

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-07 3:37:54 PM|| 2005-04-07 3:37:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 Box Car Willy

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-04-07 4:27:20 PM|| 2005-04-07 4:27:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 24/7 of Captain Beefheart with his 64th and 128th notes at 200mph.
Start with something easy like "Trout Mask Replica" and work from there.
beefheart.com

Posted by 3dc 2005-04-07 4:37:40 PM|| 2005-04-07 4:37:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Puffy AmiYumi. Annie Lennox. Laurie Anderson. Psychedelic Furs. Pink Lady.

And if all that doesn't break him, roll out the ultimate weapon: "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" as sung by Leonard Nimoy.

Posted by Mike 2005-04-07 5:07:50 PM|| 2005-04-07 5:07:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Hang in there Bobby, there's turgidity in the lower slopes of RB.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-07 6:28:20 PM|| 2005-04-07 6:28:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 Mike :

Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Posted by BigEd 2005-04-07 7:00:37 PM|| 2005-04-07 7:00:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 From Opinion Journal Online:

The idea to provide Mr. Hussein with a television for the occasion was taken to Mr. Amin by Kosrat Rasoul, a top official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish party that Mr. Talabani founded, Mr. Amin said.

"We want them to know that they are not presidents or ministers or anything other than prisoners," Mr. Amin said. "Their time is over."

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-07 7:46:59 PM|| 2005-04-07 7:46:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 How bout
When the Saints Go Marchin In?
It's Western, it has that Crusader feel to it--bet he'd pull out the last of his hair over it.
Remember, it's not what bugs us-it's what would bug HIM.

Posted by jules 2 2005-04-07 9:04:25 PM|| 2005-04-07 9:04:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 #35 Shipman, I agree, he should pull out of it. ;-)

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-07 9:04:59 PM|| 2005-04-07 9:04:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 What? Not MacArthur Park by Richard Harris, or the Donna Summer remake?

Or, Sousa marches. Nothing but Sousa marches.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2005-04-07 9:34:22 PM|| 2005-04-07 9:34:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 You want diabolical, I got your diabolical right here.

Three little words. Plastic Ono Band.

Just the memory of Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace in Toronto has my teeth on edge.

Posted by Darth VAda 2005-04-07 9:43:05 PM|| 2005-04-07 9:43:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 Two words:

Klaus Nomi

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-07 9:56:10 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-07 9:56:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 ahhhh yes. Yoko Ono - all the talent and singing range of a cat in a dryer

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-07 10:07:58 PM|| 2005-04-07 10:07:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 When the news is not on have The Culture Club with Boy George Vids playing, in Hi-Def of course...

Posted by Ominter Pheart2665 2005-04-07 11:16:59 PM|| 2005-04-07 11:16:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 #34 Mike - Leonard Nimoy sings?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-04-07 11:31:29 PM|| 2005-04-07 11:31:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 What? Not MacArthur Park by Richard Harris

NO! "Jurassic Park" by Wierd Al Yankovic!

PS Barbara S. - If you call it singing - see my #36

Posted by BigEd 2005-04-07 11:51:41 PM|| 2005-04-07 11:51:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 Oh my God Mike, nobody is that cruel....

Morissey.... < shudder >

Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| 2005-04-07 1:28:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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