it looks to be the same that has been on FOX. Not graphic at all (unless you consider putting on the noose to be graphic).

Political designs behind Saddam's execution :

1. Saddam is clearly the scapegoat for an international war syndicate, which includes many in our current political leadership, both in front and behind the scenes. Evacuating due process, controlling evidence and terrorizing the prosecution team were all par for the course in Saddam's trial. A key reason for the speedy road to execution, was to eliminate a prominent player and key witness of this international criminal war conspiracy, thereby avoid further indictment of members of our leadership, many of whom have been accessory to Saddam's actual crimes.

2. To « bookend » media fatigue and public indifference, re : Saddam's trial. The whole point of the « trial » was to deliver a quick public execution, and thereby feed the hunger for blood so brilliantly cultivated in Western public opinion. An execution gives sense of heightened drama, and inagurates the next round of intensified bloodshed in the region... and beyond.

3. Lastly, to make Saddam a martyr for (gasp!) sympathisers, thereby deepening chaos in the middle-east over a longer period of time. Certainly, the US-led war in Iraq can be called a success insofar as its central purpose has been to aid the spreading of chaos in the Middle-East.

gillesroy, you are truly out of touch with reality. Your points are so erroneous and baseless that it would take far too long to refute them all. However to touch upon a few:

First, referring to Hussein as a "scapegoat" is clearly laughable and shows clearly that you're woefully misinformed and/or deluded. Hussein, one of the sickest sociopathic tyrants of the 20th century rivaling Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin (one of Saddam's political and social heroes incidentally) and Adolf Hitler. Hussein was no scapegoat. He was tried, convicted, sentenced and executed by his OWN peoples. He received the consequences of some of his actions. He is guilty of so many atrocities that it would take a publication approximately the size of "War And Peace" (or larger) to list them all.

Another point upon which you are clearly delusional is your claim of "evacuating due process, controlling evidence and terrorizing the prosecution team were all par for the course in Saddam's trial"

First of all to clarify, "due process" is a constitutional right as guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution for its citizens. If you hadn't noticed, the trial of Saddam Hussein took place in Iraq, on Iraqi soil, under Iraqi law so there was no "due process" to evacuate. So that point of yours is rendered moot by simple facts. Secondly, the prosecution was not nor ever was terrorized. If they were, the whole thing would have been abandoned long ago. If anything, the prosecution, along with numerous witnesses, were emboldened as a result of the trial process.

I could go on and on and pick apart your nonsensical moonbattery but the examples I easily refuted will suffice. It's obvious by your post that you have chosen to join the unhinged liberal extremists mourning Hussein's execution rather than recognizing it as being an important event and end of a bloody era for Iraq that will ease the existing fears of many Iraqi citizens. They now know that Saddam Hussein will never again regain power anywhere in the middle east.

Actually Carl, not to add (a scintilla of) credibility to gilleroy's halucinations, but the judges and prosecutors did experience some terrorization -- from Saddam sympathizers and Al Quaeda outsiders.

Not to put too fine a point on it -- but this is the only vaguely accurate piece of gilleroy's otherwise delusional rant.

Carl,
Excellent rebut, more like a slice&dice...

Yeah, it's the same one Fox has.

Someone at Free Republic posted another video where you see him drop. Sort of a blur, really.

Sorry, I don't have the link here, but it's on their site as one of the daily news stories that readers post. It was up this afternoon.

He is dead. It is not justice, but it is a step in the right direction. Just to be clear, I am not sure that anything short of divine punishment can take care of Saddam in a just fashion.

Nonetheless, the world is a better place now.

The Jawa Report has the actual video if you are really curious to see him. Here's the link:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185883.php

gillesroy is just the typical democrat. BDS has driven them over the edge. Maybe all of them are setting up an insanity defense for crimes they have comitted. The duly elected Iraqi government tried Saddam and hanged him. The people of Iraq that lost most or all of their family members the his slaughter can finally have closure. That is the thousands that have been discovered in mass graves. Thousands more are still to be located. Go to this site and tell me that hanging wasn't too easy on him. He should have been dropped slowly into a wood chipper.

http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/ Go through the pages of Saddam's victims.

I guess the big mouth Conyers will quit shouting 'impeach' Bush now. He has been found guilty of a lot of ethics breaches, as if everyone didn't already know he was an unethical, criminal SOB. Old Nan Peeeloshi has a hard job ahead of her. She has to sweep out half of the democrats in congress as criminals and drain the rest out of the swamp of the other half involved in corruption of one kind or another.

Hi Kim. HotAir has a video over there, but it is taken by a member in the audience. I believe it is a witness with a cellphone/video.

Saddam swings...
http://digg.com/world_news/Still_Photo_of_Saddam_Stretching_His_Neck

The ASSociated (with terrorists) Press can't even bring themselves to report this correctly. They reported worldwide that Saddam was executed for 'war crimes'. This trial had nothing to do with any war or war crimes, that would be in an international court. The people of Iraq tried, convicted and hanged Saddam for crimes against humanity (the Iraqi's). I'm beginning to worry about the intelligence (or lack of intelligence) of everyone in the democrat party and the antique MSM. Do you really have to be as stupid as they portray themselves to vote for a democrat or work for the MSM?

The video of Saddam dropping is here, via AoS and Floppingaces:

http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/12/30/the-whole-saddam-execution-vid/

I know that this is off post Kim but i just can't help myself. Were you not the one who excoriated Harry Reid because he was not going to attend the services for Ford on Saturday night? Ummm, if I read the news correctly the president was cutting cedar and couldn't attend.

Nice judgment Kim.

Actually, Hugh, I think you're being a bit premature. If Bush skips ALL the services for Ford, then you can criticize. Reid's going to miss all of them.

The standard is simple: both Bush and Reid should attend at least one of the events for Ford. I'm entirely comfortable saying that Bush will, and Reid won't.

No double standard, just your standard rush to judgment. It's a common affliction among your kind.

J.

No jay it's my response to a specific post by Priestep about not attending the Saturday event. Get your facts straight before criticizing. Just your standard rush to defend the indefensible.

That being said, it's amusing to see you rationalize the fact that the president, busy chopping wood, can't come to Washington to greet Mrs Ford and pay respects to a previous president. Of course, he found time to rush back in the middle of a vacation and in the middle of the night to sign a bill to keep alive a dead woman.

No double standard. Just the facts.

Hugh:

Back on thread -

Do you concur with "gillesroy"'s comment?

Real video of the Saddam Hussein execution is posted at http://www.saddamned.com/

USMC

Of course not. I will admit that I have been a vocal opponent of capital punishment since I was in law school. But i really struggle about Hussein.

H

There will be no love loss for that murderous bastard. But there is just something fundamentally wrong with people who have to post the execution of a human life, no matter how evil that person was, on the internet for our "entertainment." Saddam used to watch the video footage of his prisoners being executated over and over. Are you no different than him? Its this interest in the macabre, that I find deepely disturbing, and this no less from some who wishes to inform us all of news storys. I don't watch faces of death style videos and it sickens me that there should even be an "entertainment" market for that. We don't need to watch beheadings or hangings. I know the old argument,"If you don't want to watch, then don't." But what concerns me is you. I really have no choice but to live in the same society as some of you. And you are people who are desensitising yourselves to the horrors of death. That leads to loss of outrage. That leads to general acceptence of violent crime, on some level. If you are not 100% repulsed by murder, then you are more apt to commit murder. It starts in the mind. The West is puzzeled over why the Islamic mothers strap bombs on their children and send them to their deaths. The exceptence of this behavior starts in the mind. I find your posting to be socially irresponsible.

Hugh:

Not referencing capital punishment, but wondering about the conspiracy theory part.

BTW - Loved your comment about Rossie "O", but your going to have to make a New Years resolution to stop confusing me.

Bill Searles:

That's a pretty big leap, from watching Sadam hang to strapping bombs on babies bodies.

Actually Hussein was pretty much scapegoated, but primarily by the United States in the whole "War on Terrorism" thingy. He was indeed a brutal, murderous dictator deserving of answering to many, many past misdeeds, but make no mistake -- if he had stayed cooperative with the US, regardless of how he managed his internal affairs, he'd still be hanging out (so to speak) at his palaces.

Despite idiotic and ludicrous attempts by the Bush administration and the likes of crackpot Stephen Hayes to portray Hussein as this dangerous
supporter of worldwide terrorism, the only real, bona fide evidence has shown Hussein really just supported the Palestinians. This made him an enemy of and a threat to Israel, but only a political nuisance to the US. Hussein himself considered Iran to be his major rival and threat.

Also, as far as Hussein's trial goes, some of you self-proclaimed "reality-based" folk here perchance ought to look into who actually primarily funded and set up Hussein's trial.

Hope this clarifies.

-BC

This administration's worked long and hard to sell the idea of Saddam's connection with worldwide terror, especially against the US, which sets up his execution as the latest "victory" in the war on terror. Unfortunately many will continue to buy into this despite the lack of any credible evidence.

Sorry, but Saddam's trial and hanging do not represent a step forward for an emerging democratic process in Iraq. None of this happens without US support. We decided he needed to go and he's gone. And good riddance, by the way, no complaints here. I just find it curious that he was frog marched to the gallows in pretty short order, considering the American penchant for long, drawn out trials with multiple appeals. Inquiring minds want to know.

someone needs to teach these monkeys how to hold a camera still. for crying out loud. he has what could be the best video of the decade - century perhaps, and he cant even HOLD IT STILL for three seconds. jackass.

Just another example of war pr0n for the right. Bill has it exactly right. Admit it wingnuts, you're getting a guilty hard-on from this. It's just your way to say USA Hell YEAH! without having to confront the fact that soldiers and Iraqis are being slaughtered every day.

The world will not miss Saddam Hussein. His death is only important if the needless murder of soldiers and Iraqis alike ceases. There's about as much hope of that as there is of jay tea enlisting.

Gillesroy, Bill Searles, BC have hit the nail on the head among other multitudinous reasons for such a display of preening by the right.

The hunger for blood, the acceptance of violent crime, the denial of the need for bona fide evidence are all ESSENTIAL to the right for sustaining this degeneration of American responsibility.

The ultimate message we all know from this blog is that there is nothing that will bring the 30%percenters around to understanding. Those who continue to wear blinders are dead enders. It's time for the rest of us to work towards real peace on earth and goodwill towards men, starting today.

civil behavior,

It's time for the rest of us to work towards real peace on earth and goodwill towards men, starting today.

You must be talking about working on a new genetically engineered species of humans. Otherwise, it's you who are blind if you think human nature is going to change to allow your vision of the world to become reality. The problem with humans is that they are human and some of them want power, riches and unlimited sexual experiences more than they want to practice self-sacrificing love. Either you have to genetically engineered such traits out of the species or eliminate those individuals with such traits. Of course, you can't have real peace on earth and goodwill towards men if you use force to suppress human nature. Peace on earth will come, but not by human wisdom nor by human power. This, however, is an idea you likely reject.

"sustaining this degeneration of American responsibility"

Responsibility for what?

If you and the rest of the liberals are all that guilty that America (USA) has a great deal more than the rest of the world, then take everything you own, pack it up and and ship it to someone less fortunate, but leave the rest of us alone. We didn't start anything, except maybe tring to prevent some genicides, so we don't have anything to appologize for. If you realy hate the US so much, do the rest of us a favor and move to France, where you will be more than welcome.

Why don't you go check that slick prick white trash Willie (BJ Cliton) if he has one.That's if there isn't something round and plump swinging from it. Now go back to sleep ignorant fraud.

Its not so fun to watch....Needs to be seen in its entirety to enjoy the snapping conclusion!

"By: Hugh

I'm making a New Years resolution. I will only engage in debate from now on. I will not call any one name(s), nor will I be sarcastic or caustic.

Published: December 27, 2006 02:35 PM "

Right back to his old thread-hijacking ways.

MacLorry,

A new species of man or one that is willing to takes its god given responsibility towards peace seriously?

Eliminate individuals with those traits? Would those be the same ones with such blood lust for hanging?

Much of human nature is learned behaviors. Psych 101.

USMC,

"leave us alone"? Would you think Iraqi's might be thinking just that at this point? In fact I think many of them have said as much. The apology for Iraq is one of the largest we need to start with. Our country has seen better than this kind of imperialist behavior. It's been happening since WW1 it's just that GW Bush has taken it to a whole new level.

CB, shutup stupid. Seriously

CB:

"Would you think Iraqi's might be thinking just that (leave us alone)at this point?"

Definately! However, these are the Iraqi's that want an Islamic regime that will offer little more to the average Iraqi than did Sadam. Just as with the foul smell in the car, "beware the one who screams the loudest".