Saddam Hussain Executed... - Page 8

WillowTheWhisp · 02-01-2007, 22:40

Just read the link and the entry on December 29th more than justifies the filming of the execution, if people had previously been saying he was already dead and then film of him alive was seen, who is to say that after the real execution someone would not have shown an old film and claimed he was still alive?

cashman · 02-01-2007, 23:52

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Originally Posted by Lolly

I have just been looking at the news on the BBC Website and John Prescott has said that the way the executioners behaved was deplorable!!

What is he on about?? He deserved everything he got!! I'd have told him to go to Hell to. Joining the likes of Hitler & Pol Pot. The man was pure evil and deserved to die in that way aswell, just like he killed all those other people.

i was in favour of the evil git being topped lolly,but for once i believe prescott is right, any execution should be carried out as humanely as possible all this farce has acheived to me is to fuel the hatred even more.and to those whose view is no execution i say put your hand on your heart and reach the same conclusion if your family/friends had been butchered by saddam.

garinda · 03-01-2007, 00:02

One of Saddam's prosecutors was a witness at the execution, and today said to the press that the illegal filming of the execution on a mobile phone was carried out by an Iraqi government offical. Not a very wise thing to do as the country heads faster towards civil war.

The number of US service personnel last weekend reached 3,000.

The day Saddam was executed 77 Iraqis were killed by bombs detonated by fellow Iraqis.

At least Iraq is 'free' eh?

WillowTheWhisp · 03-01-2007, 09:00

If the mobile phone filmer hadn't released that video people would have believed the official version of events though wouldn't they? So did he do the right thing?

grego · 03-01-2007, 10:21

I think Saddam got what he deserved but I dont want to see the hanging on the news especially before the watershed, more concerned about my 4 yr old daughter seeing it, had to keep changing the channel.

garinda · 03-01-2007, 10:46

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

If the mobile phone filmer hadn't released that video people would have believed the official version of events though wouldn't they? So did he do the right thing?

No this wasn't the offical film. According to the prosecutor and offical witness, the highly placed government offical was filming it illegally on his mobile, whilst shouting insults.

Not wise. Fanning the flames, I think it's called.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-01-2007, 11:23

That's my point though. If there hadn't been the illegal alternate version then we'd only have had the legal official version and not the full facts. Was he the only one shouting insults? It sounded like a lot of voices to me even though I didn't know what they were saying. Maybe the officials are trying to whitewash as best they can by claiming it was only the illegal filmer who was doing the insulting?

garinda · 03-01-2007, 11:27

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

That's my point though. If there hadn't been the illegal alternate version then we'd only have had the legal official version and not the full facts. Was he the only one shouting insults? It sounded like a lot of voices to me even though I didn't know what they were saying. Maybe the officials are trying to whitewash as best they can by claiming it was only the illegal filmer who was doing the insulting?

The prosecutor wasn't a Sunni Muslim, he said he tried to stop the execution because of the undignified mayhem.

Perhaps some people would have preferred a public execution, so every doubting Thomas would believe Saddam was really dead.

mthead · 03-01-2007, 12:58

Just seen it on Sky News,the guy who released the non official video footage has been arrested,in Iraq.

mthead · 03-01-2007, 13:10

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Originally Posted by garinda

No this wasn't the offical film. According to the prosecutor and offical witness, the highly placed government offical was filming it illegally on his mobile, whilst shouting insults.

Not wise. Fanning the flames, I think it's called.

Even Sadam himself it said was shouting insults back at the people in the room.Apparently calling them 'Persians' which it said is an insult usually thrown at Iranian and other Arabs who are not Sunni.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-01-2007, 13:15

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Originally Posted by mthead

Just seen it on Sky News,the guy who released the non official video footage has been arrested,in Iraq.

Now you see, I may be cynical here, but I can't help wondering if that is because they couldn't keep up the pretence that he was treated with dignity to the end.

Church Boy · 03-01-2007, 14:02

This is the Spark that will light the fire of Vengeance from Saddam's follower's,and most probably unite them alongside their religious enemy's against the West.Personal problem's in the Arab world can alway's be sorted out later between themselves.Church Boy

SPUGGIE J · 03-01-2007, 14:17

The whole Arab world is on a knife edge and could explode with such violence that it all starts to spread like a cold. The first target would be the U.S/Brit forces in Afganistan and Iraq quickly followed by Israel. Israel would have no quarms about taking on the Arab states that threaten her and would ignore the international community in order to, in their eyes sort out the Arabs once and for all.

WillowTheWhisp · 03-01-2007, 14:22

The prog I watched last night about CIA interference in the government of countries from Afghanistan to Chile gave me a whole new perspective on the state of the world. How many times had they made matters worse for everyone?

Ianto.W. · 04-01-2007, 01:03

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

The prog I watched last night about CIA interference in the government of countries from Afghanistan to Chile gave me a whole new perspective on the state of the world. How many times had they made matters worse for everyone?

Just why oh why do these morons think they have the universal panacea to the entire worlds problems? America the so called richest most powerful nation on earth has problems enough of its own, without trying to play god to the rest of the world. 'Physician heal thyself'.