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2006-12-29 Iraq

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Posted by Thoth 2006-12-29 19:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This one-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218245.stm
Says 6:00 AM Baghdad time. Thats less than 3 hours away.

Posted by Thoth 2006-12-29 19:47|| 2006-12-29 19:47|| Front Page Top

#2 This may be one of the last sights Saddam will see:

My son took that pic back in 2004; it shows the gallows at Abu Ghraib where so many died when Saddam was in power. There are two trap doors, and a console in between with a release lever for each. The ropes were secured to hooks in the ceiling.

'Twould be fitting if he died there.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-12-29 20:17|| 2006-12-29 20:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Hello, (your favorite dictator) switch to CNN.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-29 20:21|| 2006-12-29 20:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Can't think of the appropriate movie to watch for the festivities. Something serious, or something farcical?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 20:21|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 20:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Movie, hell.

I'm popping the champagne cork as soon as the news of his ~~assuming room temperature~~ demise comes through. :-D

Burn in HELL with your ~~sons and~~ buddies, Sadd-asshole.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-29 20:27|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-29 20:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Alcohol's out of the question; doesn't play well with my medicine. I'm taking a break from the diet, though, and have some chocolate on hand. I'm thinking maybe "Blazing Saddles" for the humorous take on hanging, followed by "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" for the (slightly) more serious.

Of course, the difference with those movies is that the condemned ESCAPES the hanging. Makes it all the sweeter, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 20:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 20:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Rob - I'll drink enough for both of us. ;-p

Go for Blazing Saddles - one of the funniest movies ever made.

God, I miss Cleavon Little.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-29 20:57|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-29 20:57|| Front Page Top

#8 He's now supposedly in his last hour.

Posted by Thoth 2006-12-29 20:59|| 2006-12-29 20:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Nah, Barbara, for true comedy you need to turn into CNN right now. All the usual suspects will probably be on Larry King Live to start the death watch. They just had one of his defense lawyers going off about how this was one of the greatest injustices of all time, blah blah blah....

Anyone else craving Doritos? ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-29 21:08|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-12-29 21:08|| Front Page Top

#10 ...Blondie, damned if you aren't right. Larry King has some lawyer, Peter Arnett (no surprise there) and Larry Weiskopf (the Time reporter who lost his hand to an IED) on here...BTW, Fox is saying the US judge says it isn't any of our business...it's showtime!

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-29 21:13|| 2006-12-29 21:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll drink enough for both of us. ;-p

Fair enough. Careful with the results tomorrow.

Go for Blazing Saddles - one of the funniest movies ever made.

Family story about it -- my elderly grandmother was literally rolling in the theater aisle during the campfire scene. Says something about my family, but I still chuckle at the thought.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 21:21|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 21:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Nah, Barbara, for true comedy you need to turn into CNN right now.

No way I'll ever turn on CNN. Except maybe for long enough to set the cable box to block it.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 21:22|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 21:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, come on, RC! It's worth it just to see these POS's cry.

Now for the real dilemma....nacho cheese or cool ranch?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-29 21:28|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-12-29 21:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Man truly deserves to die, say hi to Arafat for me Saddam.

Posted by djohn66 2006-12-29 21:34|| 2006-12-29 21:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Nacho cheese. Cool ranch paves the road to hell.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-29 21:40|| 2006-12-29 21:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Uhh, . . . Saddam who. . .? Whoops, can't talk more, wife wants me to take out the trash.

Posted by VietVet68 2006-12-29 21:49|| 2006-12-29 21:49|| Front Page Top

#17 Haiku:

Winter in Baghdad
Tyrant, trap door, kerplunk
ACLU: Phthththththtt!!!!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-12-29 21:49|| 2006-12-29 21:49|| Front Page Top

#18 While you wait....

http://saddamhanging.net/

Posted by VietVet68 2006-12-29 21:59|| 2006-12-29 21:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Al-Arabiya; Saddam hanged

Posted by john 2006-12-29 22:07|| 2006-12-29 22:07|| Front Page Top

#20 SON OF A BITCH!!!

Pull "Blazing Saddles" off the DVD rack, open case, and... NO DVD!!! No one to blame but myself, really. I'm the only one who could have lost it.

Oh, well. I want something FUNNY to drive home just how I feel about Saddam finally getting his just rewards, so I've popped "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist" into the player. I'll just think of Saddam as Betty.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 22:08|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 22:08|| Front Page Top

#21 HES DEAD AS OF 7.09 LOL GOOD

Posted by PLAY4KEEPS 2006-12-29 22:08|| 2006-12-29 22:08|| Front Page Top

#22 P: HES DEAD AS OF 7.09 LOL GOOD

I'll drink to that...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-12-29 22:15|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-12-29 22:15|| Front Page Top

#23 I'll drink to it, too. And go with tw's suggestion for nacho cheese. As always, ma'am, you have impeccable taste.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-29 22:16|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-12-29 22:16|| Front Page Top

#24 Sic semper tyrannis. Yeah.

Posted by SteveS 2006-12-29 22:16|| 2006-12-29 22:16|| Front Page Top

#25 Sic Temper Tyrannis

Posted by Anon4021 2006-12-29 22:20|| 2006-12-29 22:20|| Front Page Top

#26 Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex.

(1000pts for getting the reference)

Yeah, I'm not drinking. But, damned, I may as well be. Better fate than Saddam deserved, but at least some measure of justice is done. It's rare enough in this world to be intoxicating on its own.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-29 22:25|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-29 22:25|| Front Page Top

#27 Just downed a drink for you, Rob (after the one for me, of course).

Ding Dong, the asshole's dead! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-29 22:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-29 22:29|| Front Page Top

#28 #15 tw - I just had an inspiration.

And cooked up some bacon to go with the alcohol I'm drinking in Sadd-ass' "honor" tonight. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-12-29 23:06|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-12-29 23:06|| Front Page Top

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