Comments on: Genocide case against Saddam dismissed; Update: Burial video added

By: CP

CP — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:59:09 +0000

In the first part, you can see several people in the video holding up cell phones, presumably taking video/pictures of the event. Didn’t hear anyone yelling “Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada” here. It was pretty crazy, though, especially when they opened up the coffin and pulled him out. Oh well. He’s joined the ash heap of history.

By: Coronagold

Coronagold — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:05:22 +0000

Some black business men in Nigeria may see this clip & think, “…and they thought OUR old customs were weird. Yeesh.”

By: Golfer_75093

Golfer_75093 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:24:23 +0000

And they want us to convert to Islam…right! A cold day in hell.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:10:38 +0000

Drifter, let go of him – think how “sick and twisted” he was and it’ll make you feel better.

By: THeDRiFTeR

THeDRiFTeR — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:39:19 +0000

Once again, and as Joe Scarborough pointed out about his grudge snuffing, (think crypts and bloods), Hussein manages to be the most dignified in the footage.

We live in a sick and twisted reality.

By: kara26

kara26 — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:35:29 +0000

We need to start doing that in the US, i bet the cost is pennys on the dollar.

Where are us forces when these funerals are taking place, can you imagine to insurgents we could round up there. Wow.

Iraq invasion $50 billion
Continued Iraq war $150 billion
Not letting the Military Kick Ass 3000 US Soilders

Seeing Saddam get hung Priceless

For everything money can’t buy, the US tax payer
Excepted everywhere in the world, just not appriciated

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:13:04 +0000

The Monster on January 8, 2007 at 10:17 AM

Monster, you nailed it – just two shortcomings, the assumption that our “buddies in the EU” are our buddies and that they are possessed of fortitude and not wussitude.

Drifter, in either form, I like this ‘deconstruction’.

honora, how about “Having been Saddam Hussein”?

By: honora

honora — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:40:31 +0000

“Deconstructing Saddam”, starring…

Well, you get the picture.

THeDRiFTeR on January 8, 2007 at 1:05 PM

LOL. How about “Being Saddam Hussein”?

By: The Monster

The Monster — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:28:57 +0000

spmat, I honestly don’t know. I’d like to think it obvious that the EU can’t allow as a member a nation that doesn’t even recognize the soverignty of an existing member nation (Cypress) and doesn’t allow the same basic freedoms that those other nations allow.

But Europe has disappointed me so many times.

And the Turks have a special responsibility for the current situation; they didn’t let us send ground forces through their territory, which could have entered the Sunni Triangle from the north, minimizing the extent to which the soldiers could fade into the populace there. That forced us to rely much more on the Kurdish militiae, which in turn has tensions with Turkey cranked up a few notches.

Cry me the proverbial river.

By: paranoid

paranoid — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:25:03 +0000

arafat’s burial was nuts too.

By: THeDRiFTeR

THeDRiFTeR — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:05:56 +0000

“Deconstructing Saddam”, starring…

Well, you get the picture.

By: THeDRiFTeR

THeDRiFTeR — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:02:24 +0000

Seems like the world just can’t get enough of this guy. From to the gallows to the grave. Wonder if they’ll bury a cam in with him. Could be a mini series in it!

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:57:13 +0000

fogw, I couldn’t spot Kerry. But I can make out Jim Moran and Jim McDermott in the back at one point and if you closely watch the part where they bury him, you can catch a glimpse of Sean Penn pointing a cell phone at himself.

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:31:33 +0000

Is this anywhere near a normal islamic funeral?

Guardian on January 8, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Is there a difference between a funeral and a cadaver-swarm? I thought it was going to turn into “Weekend at ~~Bernies’~~ Saddams there for a minute.

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:27:45 +0000

How long will Allah put up with being called a “whackbar”?!

I fear His retribution.

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:47:37 +0000

Cell phones look so out of place in the seventh century.

By: spmat

spmat — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:16:32 +0000

Monster,

Do you really think the EU would require those points for accession? It’s my understanding that the EU’s problems with Turkey have more to do with their currency and economy than human rights violations, though the human rights violations make up the lion’s share of the public rhetoric.

By: fogw

fogw — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:33:30 +0000

I think I spotted John Kerry in the funeral procession for Saddam.

By: flipflop

flipflop — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:31:43 +0000

Yeesh…it’s hard to see a video like that “funeral” clip and think of these people as, well, people.

By: Right Voices

Right Voices — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:28:14 +0000

Iraq, Democrats and the MSM…

As we await the President’s new Iraq policy, a few comments made over the weekend are worth mentioning. Seems the Democrats are not on the same page. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was on CBS’s Face The Nation yesterday, and she sa…

By: The Monster

The Monster — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:17:04 +0000

The deal we’ve struck with the Kurds gives them a state-within-a-state. The maps may say ‘Iraq’, but Kurdistan is a de facto independent country already. After the Turks get adjusted to that reality, we can work with them to make it de jure as well.

Our buddies in the EU need to make it clear to the Turks that the price of membership is:
1. Religious freedom, including freeing the Orthodox Primate from government control, allowing Christians to build new churches.
2. Pull troops out of Cypress, and recognize the legitimate government there.
3. Grant the same kind of autonomy to Kurds in Turkey as they have now in Iraq, with a timetable to implement full independence. Then unification with Iraqi Kurdistan is an option, should the people of both areas vote for it.

By: Guardian

Guardian — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:06:23 +0000

My Lord. What a bunch of animals. Cultural differences aside, Is it just me or was that the most barbaric funeral you’ve ever seen? Is this anywhere near a normal islamic funeral?

By: Attila (Pillage Idiot)

Attila (Pillage Idiot) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:02:51 +0000

Yes, Khomeini’s interment was certainly memorable.

By: dalewalt

dalewalt — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:50:37 +0000

One of the major problems this treatise leaves out is religious extremism. No matter what percentage of ethnic interests is served by redrawing borders, as long as some religions consider themselves the only ‘acceptable’ religion, and preach dominion over other religions, no amount of border manipulation will alleviate bloodshed in the Middle East (or Africa, or anywhere else for that matter).

By: honora

honora — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:44:51 +0000

I’ve heard of being tried in absentia but this might be pushing the envelope….