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Saddam Sentenced To Death

Posted by: Brian on November 5, 2006 at 4:35 am

Just in:

Saddam gets the death sentence:

Saddam Hussein was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail — the once obscure Iraqi town that is now a symbol of his regime’s cruelty.

Also sentenced to death were Barzan Hassan, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and former head of the intelligence agency, and Awad Bandar, the former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court.

Bandar repeatedly screamed “Allahu Akhbar” — God is great — as he was being taken out of court.

Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, was sentenced to life in prison.

“This is very clear, and I tell the people today that the verdict was predetermined and has nothing to do with court proceedings,” Ramadan said.

Three other defendants were each sentenced three to 15 years in jail, and one was acquitted.

Mohammed Azzawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was exonerated because, the court said, there was insufficient evidence against him.

I’ll be honest, I think he’s getting what he deserves. But I have no idea what’s going to happen in Iraq because of this verdict. Could be that all hell breaks loose, or it could be that nothing much happens. I simply don’t know. But we should know rather soon, I would think.

Make no mistake, though…if even a single riot breaks out, the media is going to jump on it, as will the Democrats, to show how we “just can’t win” and we “need to bring the troops home”.

I haven’t had a chance to go through the lefty blogosphere, but I imagine they’re “questioning the timing”, as they always do.

I’ll have a round-up of opinions from the blogosphere a little later.

**Update**: Here’s a few links so far:

Hot Air
Stop The ACLU
Mary Katharine Ham
JunkYardBlog
Ed Driscoll
Flopping Aces

Brian runs the website Iowa Voice, and is filling in for ST for a few days.

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    • 22 Responses to “Saddam Sentenced To Death”

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    1. sanity says:
      November 5, 2006 at 8:54 am

      Judge tells Clark to “Get Out”.

      Before the session began, one of Saddam’s lawyers, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, was ejected from the courtroom after handing the judge a memorandum in which he called the trial a travesty.

      Chief Judge Raouf Abdul-Rahman pointed to Clark and said in English, “Get out.”

    2. Baklava says:
      November 5, 2006 at 11:51 am

      Iraqi kids being terrorized (yes we know who said that)

    3. Baklava says:
      November 5, 2006 at 1:50 pm

      Vanity Fair lying and taking quotes out of context before an election. Should they be prosecuted? Freedom of speech is not freedom to say whatever you want. You cannot libel. You cannot shout fire in a crowded theater. You cannot do many things concerning elections. The systematic approach taken by the drive-by legacy media is hit and run journalism and it’s about time journalists are made responsible for their libel especially when done right before an election.

      It is about time leftists learn how to debate ideas and solutions instead of resorting to what they’ve generally done on almost every issue… lie, libel, inaccurately accuse, falsely charge, etc.

      If you don’t have any ideas then just say so. But to continue your behavior liberals is pathetic. You don’t convince anyone who reads enough. But you do convince people who don’t read enough. Does that make you proud? Are you propagandists proud of yourselves?

    4. Baklava says:
      November 5, 2006 at 1:57 pm

      Richard Perle:

      Vanity Fair has rushed to publish a few sound bites from a lengthy discussion with David Rose. Concerned that anything I might say could be used to influence the public debate on Iraq just prior to Tuesday’s election, I had been promised that my remarks would not be published before the election.

      I should have known better than to trust the editors at Vanity Fair who lied to me and to others who spoke with Mr. Rose. Moreover, in condensing and characterizing my views for their own partisan political purposes, they have distorted my opinion about the situation in Iraq and what I believe to be in the best interest of our country.

      I believe it would be a catastrophic mistake to leave Iraq, as some are demanding, before the Iraqis are able to defend their elected government. As I told Mr. Rose, the terrorist threat to our country, which is real, would be made much worse if we were to make an ignominious withdrawal from Iraq.

      David Frum:

      There has been a lot of talk this season about deceptive campaign ads, but the most dishonest document I have seen is this press release from Vanity Fair, highlighted on the Drudge Report . Headlined “Now They Tell Us” it purports to offer an “exclusive” access to “remorseful” former supporters of the Iraq war who will now “play the blame game” with “shocking frankness.” … My most fundamental views on the war in Iraq remain as they were in 2003: The war was right, victory is essential, and defeat would be calamitous.

      And that to my knowledge is the view of everybody quoted in the release and the piece: Adelman, Cohen, Ledeen, Perle, Pletka, Rubin, and all the others

      Vanity Fair should apologize and issue a deep and lengthy correction. Employees should be fired for failing to be truthful with the public.

    5. Baklava says:
      November 5, 2006 at 2:14 pm

      Gold Star Families travel to Iraq in support of the mission.

    6. CavalierX says:
      November 5, 2006 at 5:09 pm

      “Saddam Hussein was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging”

      “He’s nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging’s too good for him. Burning’s too good for him! He should be torn into little bitty pieces and buried alive!”
      - Hanover Fiste, Heavy Metal

    7. NC Cop says:
      November 5, 2006 at 5:20 pm

      He should be torn into little bitty pieces and buried alive!”

      And he still might be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    8. Lorica says:
      November 5, 2006 at 6:11 pm

      Mousolini was hung in the public square. Afterward the people cut him down and kicked him somewhere around 10,000 times. Not much left after that.

      Even tho I do agree, that this was going to be the verdict all along, and everyone knew it. It also should be the verdict. Not a single rational person here would say we need to keep Hitler alive, and this man was just as horrible. I am glad this trial is over. It has gone on for too long. I just hope the sentence for this conviction will be finished in a much quicker fashion. Somewhere around Monday 6am our time would be good with me. – Lorica

    9. Nazareth says:
      November 5, 2006 at 9:21 pm

      Rope makers all across Iraq are jockeying for position to be the ones chosen to supply the noose. Casket makers however are doubtful that there will be neough of him left to put in a box- thinble makers however, now that’s a different story.
      SacredScoop.com

    10. Nazareth says:
      November 5, 2006 at 9:22 pm

      Darn- meant to say Thimble makers- curse these no edit posts :d

    11. benning says:
      November 5, 2006 at 9:58 pm

      I’ll believe it when he hits the end of that noose. Not until!

      GooooOOOOOOO, NOOSE!