George Gets His Snuff video

This is how the new Iraqi regime deals with the highest profile case it will ever have. This video tells us nothing about Saddam, who is the most dignified person in the scene, but it tells us a lot about how squalid, amateurish and shoddy the Iraqi government is, and in it's repulsiveness tells us a lot about ourselves, about how our morals, ethics and standards have been buried in the sands of Iraq.

excellent post sir.Iraq is a sad reflection on the so called civilized west.The execution of Saddam was the sad icing on the a very sad cake indeed.
The US and UK are a disgrace to morality.We are indeed back in the days of the Crusades.

Galloway on the execution
http://www.georgegalloway.com/

I too find the harrowing pictures of judicial killing utterly disgusting and degrading. If this Government had any moral fibre at all it would have condemned such an act.

Why is it acceptable for the Iraqis to kill in this manner, but not for Britons to be hanged here or anywhere else in the world?

Would Saddam have been hanged if found guilty at a court in the Hague? Obviously not. So this is just a means of disposal of a political 'problem'. How appalling.

And the daily relentless slaughter continues on the streets of Iraq as if nothing had happened...

What a squalid scene. Ive seen beheading with more dignity. See the labour spin machine in action at its hightst RPM over the next few days as they try to reconcile this disgusting act with being against the death penalty (the Iraqis will ge the blame) and for justice.

What a squalid scene. Ive seen beheading with more dignity. See the labour spin machine in action at its hightst RPM over the next few days as they try to reconcile this disgusting act with being against the death penalty (the Iraqis will ge the blame) and for justice.

Interesting quote from a story you probably wont be able to find easily on CNN anymore:

'Friday evening, a U.S. district judge refused a request to stay the execution.'

A U.S. distric judge?!

[http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html]

You can watch the entire video here. It is absolutely disgusting and on the same level as the nasty zarqawi videos. The executioners are definitely Shi'aa fanatics as you can tell from the way that they taunt him shouting 'jahanum' which translates as 'hell'. Saddam responds to them in a sarcastic manner but as the noose is tightened and his end is imminent he recites the Muslim declaration of faith: I testify that there is no god except God and Muhamamd is the final messenger of God.

After 35 years of despotic secular rule the dictator finally meets his creator.

http://one.revver.com/watch/130549

By several accounts, Saddam was calm but scornful of his captors, engaging in a give-and-take with the crowd gathered to watch him die and insisting he was
Iraq's savior, not its tyrant and scourge.

"He said we are going to heaven and our enemies will rot in hell and he also called for forgiveness and love among Iraqis but also stressed that the Iraqis should fight the Americans and the Persians," Munir Haddad, an appeals court judge who witnessed the hanging, told the British Broadcasting Corp.

Another witness, national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie, told The New York Times that one of the guards shouted at Saddam: "You have destroyed us. You have killed us. You have made us live in destitution."

"I have saved you from destitution and misery and destroyed your enemies, the Persian and Americans," Saddam responded, al-Rubaie told the Times.

"God damn you," the guard said.

"God damn you," responded Saddam.

New video, first broadcast by Al-Jazeera satellite television early Sunday, had sound of someone in the group praising the founder of the Shiite Dawa Party, who was executed in 1980 along with his sister by Saddam.

Saddam appeared to smile at those taunting him from below the gallows. He said they were not showing manhood.

Then Saddam began reciting the "Shahada," a Muslim prayer that says there is no god but God and Muhammad is his messenger, according to an unabridged copy of the same tape, apparently shot with a camera phone and posted on a Web site. Saddam made it to midway through his second recitation of the verse. His last word was Muhammad.

The floor dropped out of the gallows.

"The tyrant has fallen," someone in the group of onlookers shouted. The video showed a close-up of Saddam's face as he swung from the rope.

Then came another voice: "Let him swing for three minutes."

All said and done Saddam did indeed have balls eh???never flinched.calm and dignified to the very end.

The BBC's 'official' comments on this barbaric farce are truly incredible. The masked executioners are 'hooded volunteers,' whose behaviour is 'respectful but businesslike.' The editor even has a Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6221481.stm

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former Iraqi president
Saddam Hussein was an avid reader, fed birds and told jokes while he was in US custody, an American military nurse who looked after him said in interviews with US media.

Robert Ellis, 56, an operating room nurse assigned to Saddam during his US military detention, described a courteous, contemplative figure in stark contrast to the brutal reputation Saddam earned during his rule over
Iraq.

"He basically talked about his wife, and his children," Ellis told CNN on Monday.

"He was an avid reader. Loved to read and write. He had a lot of stories that he had written. He had a pamphlet that he wrote in every day and then when time came to visit him he'd read things to me," the army reservist said.

The master sergeant said he had strict orders to ensure Saddam stayed alive while in US hands.

"That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy, so they could kill him at a later date," Ellis recounted in an interview from his home in Normandy, Missouri with the St Louis Post-Dispatch published on Sunday.

Saddam was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging on Saturday, an end that did not sit well with Ellis.

"I was kind of disappointed (by the execution)," Ellis told CNN.

"I thought that they would more or less put him in jail for the rest of his life to kind of stem some of the violence that I knew was going to take place," he said.

When Saddam at one point was allowed short walks outside, the former president would feed birds pieces of bread saved from his meals, the nurse told the St Louis newspaper. Saddam also watered a plot of weeds.

"He said he was a farmer when he was young and he never forgot where he came from," Ellis told the paper.

Ellis said he did not believe Saddam was lonely while in detention "because he was jovial at times."

Saddam "had a good sense of humor. You know, made jokes, you know. And he spent most of his time reading, and praying," he said.

Ellis said he monitored Saddam's health from January 2004 to August 2004, visiting him twice a day, giving him medicine daily, checking his blood pressure and temperature and ensuring he was receiving enough food and water.

Guards referred to Saddam by the code name "Victor," he said.

Saddam went on a hunger strike at one point, refusing to eat when guards slid food through the slot on the bottom of his cell door. But when guards starting opening the door, Saddam dropped his hunger strike.

"He refused to be fed like a lion," Ellis said.

At no time did Saddam display hostility toward him, Ellis said, but his patient did ask him why the United States had led an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"He said everything he did was for Iraq," Ellis told the St Louis newspaper.

"One day when I went to see him, he asked why we invaded. Well, he made gestures like shooting a machine gun and asked why soldiers came and shot up the place. He said the laws in Iraq were fair and the weapons inspectors didn't find anything.

"I said, 'That's politics. We soldiers don't get caught up in that sort of thing.'"

Saddam never spoke of dying and unlike his defiant, angry appearances at his trial proceedings, he rarely complained, Ellis said.

"When he was with me, he was in a different environment," he said. "I posed no threat. In fact, I was there to help him, and he respected that."

Ellis had mixed feelings about his role, knowing he was treating a patient who would likely be put to death.

"I knew all along what they were going to do. This went against my grain as a nurse, but as a soldier -- well, that was my job."

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