Saddam's On the Clock
POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Monday, January 5, 2026 22:02
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WHAT are you talking about? Is this the usual avoiding the topic/ ad hominem again?
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Originally posted by SignyM:
WHAT are you talking about? Is this the usual avoiding the topic/ ad hominem again?
Let's see. The topic was:
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Should he (Saddam) be hanged?
Will he be hanged?
After the fact, will stand-up comics joke about Saddam being well-hung?
"Will he be hanged?" has been resolved. He was.
"Should he be hanged?" is still open to discussion, but has been rather overtaken by events.
As for the comics, A Google search of "Saddam is well hung" brings up 96 hits (so far), so more than a few folks think it's at least funny enough to post.
Not sure where all this off-topic stuff about impeaching Bush II came from. Looks like Rue threw out the first ball, with her "U.S. Complicity" in some un-specified event back in post 3. Bagherra then jumps in a couple of posts later with the "US's current "kill now, think later" agenda", which seems off topic since the Iraqi courts convicted Saddam and the Iraqi government executed him. PirateJenny then claims that Bush should be hanged for his (unspecified) crimes before Saddam. Succatash proclaims that PJ is justified in this statement. Chrisisall charatibly suggests that Bush should only be impeached, and not hung, I guess. PN injects a bit of much-needed humor, and then we're back to the overwhelmingly off topic but seemingly neverending "Bush Lied About WMD" schtick.
Looks like another thread hijack in progress. Back to hanging Saddam, please.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Originally posted by citizen:Quote:The US is a permenant member of the UN council. How, pray tell is it supposed to put sanctions on one of it's permenant members. I doubt the UN could put effective sanctions on the US if you guys dropped a Nuclear weapon on Paris.
As far as it was the UN is concerned, it was legal. Has there been any sanctions against the US for the war w/ Iraq? No.
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Could this be some of the reason people feel compelled to fly US airplanes into US buildings to begin with ?
Perhaps the world really has to grow a set, and tell the US where to go, while governments seem reluctant... popular opinion is going the other way...........
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Women and children and cowards attack
Run to the hills run for your lives "
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Well, I already expressed my opinion on the death penalty. Fortunately for Bush, I'm against it on principle.
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Originally posted by Geezer:
PirateJenny then claims that Bush should be hanged for his (unspecified) crimes before Saddam. Succatash proclaims that PJ is justified in this statement.
That was pretty funny, Geezer.
However, please note that Jenny did not claim Bush should hang, nor did she claim that Saddam should hang. She did say, "I don't necessiarly thing Saddam should [hang]."
Hang it all, Happy New Year!
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Criminals should at least serve some function in the community they messed with - routine blood "donations" (can't really call it that if it's compulsory), etc. Not to the level of lab rats injected with cancers and such (although I'm sure some people would really think that's a great idea); but, even if they weren't healthy enough to give blood, they could make dinky little flags for their country (because the "Made in China" stickers on American flags irritate me), or something. And, maybe they could have little rewards for it: more free time, or maybe a book; and, where the sentance before could have been the death penalty, it could instead be the death penalty OR life in prison (in maximum security, with no chance of parol, at all) doing the little things. They could in some way try to atone for what they did.
So, no, I don't think Saddam should have been hung; he could have served some function, right? Isn't prison worse than death?
Besides, without my obvious dislike of the death penalty, won't Saddam's death make the violence in Iraq worse? Doesn't it give one side a sense of righteousness to see the leader of their enemies hung? And, doesn't that make his followers want revenge?
Is Saddam a martyr?
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Could this be some of the reason people feel compelled to fly US airplanes into US buildings to begin with ?
Perhaps the world really has to grow a set, and tell the US where to go, while governments seem reluctant... popular opinion is going the other way...........
You REALLY want to take the side of the lunatic Islamic murderers? Fine, take that path, if you want, but I'll guarantee you'll lose, every single time. And you'll lose far more than you're willing to sacrafice.
Think twice before you answer.
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Is Saddam a martyr?
Yes. For all those who favor gassing of Kurdish villages filled with women and children. It's unfathonable what some folks are spinning on this board. Beyond unfathonable, actually.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
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Quote:Oh yes, let's see... where DID Saddam get those "crop spraying" choppers from again....? I
Yes. For all those who favor gassing of Kurdish villages filled with women and children.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Is Saddam a martyr?
Yes. For all those who favor gassing of Kurdish villages filled with women and children.
So, the Sunnis and Shi'ites, then? Well, damn, that makes two groups in the same region that we sort of already messed up (or helped mess up, or invaded and acted as the catalyst for messing up) in the first place.
I thought we wanted to make Iraq better, not worse.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Oh yes, let's see... where DID Saddam get those "crop spraying" choppers from again....? I
Yes. For all those who favor gassing of Kurdish villages filled with women and children.
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Does it matter ? I'd say it matters more what he DID with them. But that's just me.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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