Another success in Iraq

[kallend 2,026]

www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15195259.htm

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[willard 0]

That used to happen here in the States with some regularity until a scientific approach was taken to hanging and a table was drawn up giving suggested lengths of drop according to body weight. Even then an occasional hanging would be botched.

Shit happens.

[dorbie 0]

I heard about that. Messy but not the worst outcome for the deceased. Of course some clerics are already making outlandish claims on TV.

It doesn't mater what happens, it's always cast in the worst possible light. If Saddam were still alive or not sentenced to death it would have been hailed as a great defeat for the USA and the Iraqi government. At some point you just tune out this harping crap.

It "appalled international critics" , they were quick weren't they, not so quick off the mark when this guy was doing the torturing and killing of thousands. The guy who once terrorized an entire nation, who rounded up, tortured and killed thousands, who forced his enemies to swim through vats of human feces with broken bones dies instantly during an execution, but because of a miscalculation it doesn't look pretty and they're "apalled" and outraged. [yawn]

I'm impressed by the newly discovered squeamishness and outrage of these Sunni clerics though, it's really a new angle for them and if it catches on maybe they'll be a bit more reticent about blowing women and children limb from limb to further their political causes.

[mnealtx 0]

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I heard about that. Messy but not the worst outcome for the deceased. Of course some clerics are already making outlandish claims on TV.

It doesn't mater what happens, it's always cast in the worst possible light. If Saddam were still alive or not sentenced to death it would have been hailed as a great defeat for the USA and the Iraqi government. At some point you just tune out this harping crap.

It "appalled international critics" , they were quick weren't they, not so quick off the mark when this guy was doing the torturing and killing of thousands. The guy who once terrorized an entire nation, who rounded up, tortured and killed thousands, who forced his enemies to swim through vats of human feces with broken bones dies instantly during an execution, but because of a miscalculation it doesn't look pretty and they're "apalled" and outraged. [yawn]

I'm impressed by the newly discovered squeamishness and outrage of these Sunni clerics though, it's really a new angle for them and if it catches on maybe they'll be a bit more reticent about blowing women and children limb from limb to further their political causes.

Well said...

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maybe they'll be a bit more reticent about blowing women and children limb from limb to further their political causes.

Unfortunately, I believe it won't affect that at all...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[mr2mk1g 10]

The Aberdare Commission figured it out over a century ago (see table): http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html#drop

[JohnRich 4]

Another war criminal brought to justice - yep, that's success.

[Channman 2]

A little bleach and a water hose can clean up that mess.

[spudboy 0]

could this be considered a benchmark towards Victory

[crwtom 0]

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It doesn't mater what happens, it's always cast in the worst possible light.

Well yes - at this point everything is seen from a violently sectarian
point of view. No matter that it was a mass murderer or that the
death was quick or that there was a (arguable fair) trial - the way
it's looked at: A Sunni was killed and his body desecrated by
Shiites ... time for revenge. You can argue what you want but this
is how civil war works.


Cheers, T

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