Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad.
Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.
Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Iraqi chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar, were also executed.
“Criminal Saddam was hanged to death,” state-run Iraqiya television announced, as patriotic music and images of national monuments were broadcast.
A scrolling headline read: “Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history.”
Not all mass murderers meet justice. Most, like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Amin die of old age or by their own hands. Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro will probably die in their beds.
It was America who gave the Iraqi people the chance to see their tyrant fall. For this we have received all kinds of scorn and recriminations. So it is important to remember what it is that Saddam did.
He invaded Iran
He invaded Kuwait
He killed thousands of Kurds.
He murdered thousands of Iraqis
He tortured many more.
He stole billions from his people and built palaces.
He financed Palestinian terrorists, including Hamas and the families of Suicide Bombers
Hanging was too good for him.
Pol Pot died of old age too, the scumbag.
Posted by on 12/29 at 11:59 PMYou can only kill someone once, but you can torture them a thousand times. Saddam deserved more.
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