Iraqi People Celebrate Saddam Verdict
The images on TV this morning once again say it all: Iraqi adults and children dancing in the streets to celebrate the death sentence of Saddam Hussein.
Mohammed and Omar Fadhil from the groundbreaking blog, Iraq the Model, have this reaction at PajamasMedia:
I was overwhelmed with joy and relief as I watched the criminals being read their verdicts. For the first time in our region tyrants are being punished for their crimes through a court of law.
This is the day for Saddam’s lovers to weep and I expect their shock and grieve to be huge. They had always thought their master was immortal so let them live in their disappointment while we live for our future.
This is a day not only for Iraqis but a historic day for the whole region; today new basis for dealing between rulers and peoples are found.No one is above the law anymore.
We are living a new era where there’s much hope despite the difficulties…our sacrifices have a noble cause, that is to build a new model that obviously terrifies other tyrants.
I believe it wasn’t Saddam alone who was shaking and shouting in hysteria when the verdict was read; I can see hysteria takes over all of Saddam’s followers and apologists.
Today we had turned a page that was full of pain and ugly crimes that were committed by the same criminals who were shaking in the hands of Iraq’s new justice.
Right now volleys of bullets ring not far from where I sit, some are fired to express joy while others are fired in a desperate expression of denial but I have no doubt who is going to prevail. Although the road is long but we are walking forward and will not look back.
I salute the honorable special tribunal that challenged threats and risks and insisted on keeping up the work until the end, and today it brought back the pride of the land that wrote the world’s first laws.
I salute the witnesses who risked their lives to reveal the truth and expose the crimes of the dictator.
I salute the brave men and women of the coalition who came to this land and made this day possible.
Congratulations to all my Iraqi brothers and sisters on this glorious day.
Americans can be proud that we did the right thing and toppled the evil dictator. Everytime the Iraqi people have the chance to express themselves (tearing down Saddam’s statue, voting three times, and celebrating the dictator’s guilty verdict), they do so in support of our nation’s goals of freedom and democracy.
It is fascinating to see the parallels between how the American/world news media focuses on the negative and promotes the insurgents and against the Iraqi people just as the news media focuses on the negative and promotes the Democrats in our own nation. They repeatedly ignore the true intentions of the American and Iraqi people.
Folks, we are in a war against a global terror threat. Saddam was, at the very least, a terror-enabler. He repeatedly mass murdered his own people and threatened war against America multiple times. In a post-9/11 world, no responsible American president should have let the potential threat of Saddam’s intentions and weapons programs/materials (all documented) go unchecked.
Today is a great day for the Iraqi people and for our heroes in the US Armed Forces who are taking World War III to the front lines, so that the streets of America remain safe. I only hope that the leaders of the Democrat Party celebrate this day as much as they did when they celebrated the anniversary of the Abu Ghraib abuse revelations.
[RELATED STORY: NY Times says Saddam was one year shy of an atomic bomb. Kind of blows the whole liberal mantra out of the water, eh?]
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Hang em high…
No matter what you think of the war, the verdict is a triumph for humanity and the Iraqi people. A mass murderer has been brought to justice….
Trackback by The Florida Masochist — November 5, 2006 @ 11:53 am - November 5, 2006
These trials should have been the Nuremberg Trials of the 21st Century. Yet the press (including Fox News) gave more coverage to sex scandals which may or may not have involved actual sex, and torture scandals which may or may not have involved actual torture (where I live, Duke, UNC, and NC State call it “Fraternity initiation”).
Hang him high!
Comment by Attmay — November 5, 2006 @ 1:36 pm - November 5, 2006
Look out Saddam – Satan’s got a special corner of Hell reserved for you.
If this doesn’t convince these anti-war nutjobs that Iraq was better off without Saddam, NOTHING DOES.
And Attmay, I second your call. GIT A ROPE, PARDNER! (As we say here in Texas.)
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — November 5, 2006 @ 1:40 pm - November 5, 2006
Nope, he shouldn’t have. However, in the end, thats exactly what this President did. WMDs? Last seen heading over the border of Syria. Conventional arms and munitions? Un-confiscated, unguarded and currently being used by insurgents to kill thousands of American servicemen and women. Along with thousands of Iraqi civilians. Even the known stockpiles of radioactive material (although of little threat) were not looked after, and ended up looted.
Was it right to go after Saddam and his threat? Absolutely. Was it done in a competent manner? No.
No doubt the usual suspects will rend and tear their underwear over this as just more “Bush Hatred”. But the truth is that there isn’t a soul that I would trust to lead the War on Terror in the entire fucking city of Washington DC. Whatever side of the aisle.
Perhaps instead of the blind party loyalty so often displayed on this blog, by either side, its time to start looking for competent leadership, no matter where its found.
Comment by Patrick (Gryph) — November 5, 2006 @ 1:55 pm - November 5, 2006
“WMDs? Last seen heading over the border of Syria.”
So you admit that Saddam had WMDs?
Comment by Attmay — November 5, 2006 @ 2:33 pm - November 5, 2006
Less than what he deserved, but it is justice…
The Iraqi special tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and several of his cohorts has handed down its verdict on the former dictator: death by hanging. He, as usual, was defiant: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was found guilty by a special…
Trackback by Public Secrets: from the files of the Irishspy — November 5, 2006 @ 3:38 pm - November 5, 2006
The Democrat base responds to the Saddam Verdict (comments at the HuffPo [the blog where St Andrew of the Hissy-Fit is the reasonable one]).
Comment by V the K — November 5, 2006 @ 6:18 pm - November 5, 2006
Um….if you’re going to quote the New York Times, why don’t you link directly to the story and not to the “stop the aclu” website? It took 2 links to get to the actual article. The Times is not reporting what you say here, they are commenting on the claims in it.
To be “fair and balanced” you should point out that the point of the Times article was that, for a time, the federal government posted some documents in their entirety, which could have helped terrorists and unfriendly nations to use information in the documents to create nuclear weapons. Seems that once again it’s zeal to convince US citizens that there is no problem with Iraq, they have screwed up yet again.
Comment by Kevin — November 5, 2006 @ 6:20 pm - November 5, 2006
#7 Damn I thought for sure the leftists would put partianship aside and celebrate with the Iraqis, the impending hanging of their former dictator.
I continue to over estimate the liberals.
Did you see the huge burst of momenteum to the Republicans the past 3 days? I credit, Kerry’s anti military comments first then the unemployment report…4.4% unemployment, Sadaam to hang, and the NYTimes report of Sadaam being 12 months away from nukes, should put the Republicans over the top. WMD’s who thought they’d be the pre election surprise? The link to the PEW survey showing the Republican MO…
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=295
thanks to Drudge.
BTW this momenteum occurs at the last minute in most elections save the Dole debacle.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — November 5, 2006 @ 9:13 pm - November 5, 2006
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Pingback by African American Political Pundit — November 5, 2006 @ 9:17 pm - November 5, 2006
Thanks to VtheK for the comments by the PuffingtonHost crowd. I take it that Andrew is the Weird Left-Winger still claiming somehow from his Provincetown perch to be some sort of conservative.
The Dems used to be the Party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. Now they are the Party of Drugs, Atheism, and Treason.
Comment by daveinboca — November 5, 2006 @ 9:25 pm - November 5, 2006
As Sadaam was shooting at our pilots prior to GW 2, now we know he was less than a year away from a nuclear weapon. Thank God for adults like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and most of all, our fantastic warriors of the military. That’s right Mr Kerry, the fantastic warriors of the US military.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — November 5, 2006 @ 9:42 pm - November 5, 2006
I’m just glad that traitor Ramsey Clark is finally going to shut his pie hole. The sad part is, some liberal nutjobs in academia are probably going to recruit him for a speaking engagement or worse, tenure.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — November 5, 2006 @ 10:26 pm - November 5, 2006
The Saddam Verdict: Widespread and differing reactions…
As the stories trickle in, the reactions are fairly varied, and predictable.
Amnesty International, of course, condemned it.
Iraq: Amnesty International deplores death sentences in Saddam Hussein trial
Amnesty International deplores the decision …
Trackback by Leaning Straight Up — November 6, 2006 @ 2:16 am - November 6, 2006
“So, Saddam Hussein is to be hanged for signing the death warrants of 148 rebels, would-be murderers, in Dujail in 1982. Yet George Bush signed the death warrants of 152 people as Governor of Texas. Is he to be hanged for that?”
Get some facts and logic here.
Comment by Gomer — November 6, 2006 @ 4:51 am - November 6, 2006
Heya Gomer… linking to Pravda? The failed, discredited news organization that carried the water for the Communists for 30+ years? The news organization that CBS modeled itself after?
Hey Gomer, what a Pyle.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 8:47 am - November 6, 2006
#14
The actual character of Gomer Pyle served honorably in the USMC.
This guy sounds more like Otis the town drunk.
Comment by Attmay — November 6, 2006 @ 9:56 am - November 6, 2006
I hear that we are not at war: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2626032&page=1. Army recruiters say it is over. Do THEY think potential military recruits are stupid?
Comment by sean — November 6, 2006 @ 11:35 am - November 6, 2006
#9. Are ALL Iraqis celebrating? You might want to check the paper that you jus referenced, the NYTimes, to see that not everyone is happy in Iraq. And, again, it is on civil war lines. But that’s sorta inconvenient, isn’t it.
Comment by sean — November 6, 2006 @ 11:38 am - November 6, 2006
ahhh yes, sean… if not every single Iraqi in the Free World is celebrating than the event of Saddam’s conviction isn’t worth it.
What an incredible snit. Who’s your role model? The common dog flea? Snit.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 11:44 am - November 6, 2006
“So, Saddam Hussein is to be hanged for signing the death warrants of 148 rebels, would-be murderers, in Dujail in 1982. Yet George Bush signed the death warrants of 152 people as Governor of Texas. Is he to be hanged for that?”
No, for a very simple reason.
The death warrants that Bush signed were the direct result of a criminal trial by jury, with both sides allowed to present and argue evidence, and an appeals process designed to allow said trials and judgment to be thoroughly and exhaustingly reviewed.
Saddam just said, “Those men — go kill them”.
But thanks for demonstrating to us that Democrats see a complete moral equivalence between the two.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 6, 2006 @ 12:13 pm - November 6, 2006
These trials should have been the Nuremberg Trials of the 21st Century.
There was a reason they weren’t, though; the Democrats and their puppets in the media don’t want Americans to know just how awful Saddam was.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 6, 2006 @ 12:46 pm - November 6, 2006
And all the castrated weenies are whining about it. See here.
Comment by rightwingprof — November 6, 2006 @ 1:21 pm - November 6, 2006
May you or an innocent member of your immediate family be found guilty by the same process. It’s happened before, you know. Then let’s see how much cockiness you can muster up. Then you’ll be crying to some Democrat lawyer for help. Good luck to you.
And there we see the Democrats’ sense of proportion; they whine over death penalty cases in the United States being “unfair” and make cracks like “hope it happens to your immediate family or you”.
These examples show just what Dems consider to be “fair” and how much they care about immediate families.
And of course one goes looking for a Democratic lawyer; they’ll argue that anyone, even Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, aren’t guilty.
What I find incredibly amusing is that abortion-pushers like Anon1 are anti-death penalty; in other words, they don’t support executing guilty humans for crimes they commit, but they do support executing innocent babies for what their parents want.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — November 6, 2006 @ 1:36 pm - November 6, 2006
NDXXX, given the current conventional wisdom out of the GayLeftBorg, I’m waiting for the talking point to come out of Ramsey Clark’s mouth that Saddam should be forgiven and released because:
a) he was abused as a child;
b) he was on strong prescriptions when he did those bad, bad things;
c) his wife didn’t love him;
d) his sons and daughters were disrespectful to him;
e) he was gay.
Before you howl “Oh No!”… remember it’s early in the news cycle. If it doesn’t happen, Saddam will be the first major media celebrity in weeks caught in a scandal that didn’t use a combination of those “excuses”.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 1:58 pm - November 6, 2006
Here in rural Pennsylvania Monday morning in the news dailys, huge picture of Sadaam above the fold. This will help the Republicans tomorrow because it says the Iraqis are capable of justice. A trial, a verdict and soon an execution. It means their society is progressing dispite what the MSM reports. Good news from Iraq. The Dems polls will continue to fall.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — November 6, 2006 @ 2:07 pm - November 6, 2006
Gene, don’t be too quick on that skateboard… the Dem’s are getting ready to offer that Saddam wouldn’t have been found guilty if it hadn’t been for the Dems undermining American resolve and triggering a “Hurry-up-and-do-SOMEthing” response from Iraq.
The Dems got the conviction moving.
BTW, what happened to all those wild-assed conspiracy claims from the Dems that Bush would personally wrestle and kill Osama bin Laden a day or two before Election Day?
Boy, do I miss the good ol days when presidents like Slick Willy wouldn’t hesitate to bomb an Arab aspirin factory if it would help shift the attention away from his incompetency over selecting blow job sites.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 2:33 pm - November 6, 2006
Wow, Gay Fascists! I thought I’d never see here in the U.S. – just as bad as the Pink Swastika crowd that surrounded Ernst Roehm and Edmund Heines. Bruce, Matt, Peter H., don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Comment by L'Chaim — November 7, 2006 @ 1:45 am - November 7, 2006
The Christians of Iraq – remember them? were better off under Saddam than the Shi’ite “Islamofascists” that the neocons installed:
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher288.html
And besides, how can the U.S.-backed puppet regime condemn Saddam for that which they backed him (a full-war against Iran and their coreligionist proxies in Iraq.
If this is the November Surprise, I’m sure not impressed. I never applaud political assassinations.
Comment by GayFirstRepublicanSecond — November 7, 2006 @ 1:56 am - November 7, 2006
#29, hey short stuff… what’s with the Gay Fascists? Pink Swastika? Oh you ARE such a flamer with the fetish for pre-WWII Germany and all things leather. And this from a guy who thinks comparing Hitler and Bush is fair. I’m not surprised that our ol’ friend “raj” is one of your most ardent supporters on your blog.
Right, you go to it short stuff. But get a new pic for the blog… the ol’ GeorgeClooney ceasar-toupee look is out of style… as are dark t-shirts and suit jackets. But you hang with it if it says “style” where you come from.
Guy, you are so far outside of reality I doubt you even remember leaving orbit.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 7, 2006 @ 9:31 am - November 7, 2006