Drink Up
It’s done. Saddam was handed a red card of death, as many of his own victims were, CNN reports, and dropped at 10:05 p.m. EST. AP offers some details of the runup.
So we’re rid of him. Plenty of time later to contemplate the significance, the path forward, what it all means. This is just a moment to contemplate how much death and horror this man brought into the world. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of men, women and children dead because of him.
The reports also indicate the witnesses to his execution danced around his body. CNN reports a witness described “fear on his face.” Good. We already knew he was a coward, and we know how many deaths a coward dies.
I’ve filled my shot brass and raised it. Don’t be shy about raising a glass yourself. The world is a better place rid of this filthy murderer.
Newsweek: “I saw fear, he was afraid.”
Sky News has video and other links here.
My pal Sig’s report at the San Antonio Express-News, with some who suffered at Saddam’s hands.
O’Ryan at BostonHerald.com with another victim of Saddam.
Patterico: “Rot in Hell.”
Prairie Pundit: “His career as a genocidal despot ended three years ago, and his career as a ranting defendant in the dock is now over.”
Clarity and Resolve is up for some ululating.
Bill’s Bites waxes poetic.
Ed Driscoll reminds us of Saddam’s forebears and their fates.
Confederate Yankee claims media reports were an hour and a half off: he got it at 4:22 a.m. local, not 6 a.m.
Protein Wisdom: Nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging. Jeff counsels introspection for those whose perspective at this critical moment in history is obstructed by the sand into which they’ve stuck their heads.
Cluelessness reigns supreme over at the vaingloriously self-proclaimed Shakespeare’s Sister.
Robert Scheer at the ironically named Truthdig needs to dig more if he wants to find some truth.
Sorry, I’m not exactly clear on exactly what Martin Lewis at HuffPo is trying to say.
Thunder Run blasts his way through these and other poorly constructed defensive positions of the Left, where Saddam is achieving anti-Bush martyrdom.
Dan Riehl brings us Peaceniks singing for Saddam.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:35 pm on Friday, December 29, 2006
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December 30th, 2006 at 12:26 am
Many on the left are crying this evening. I just cannot understand those people.
While blaiming Bush in very despicable ways for the death of Saddam, they forget it was an Iraqi Court, and Iraqi Judge and Iraqi attorneys.
More astonshing was an effort to delay the hanging … in US Federal Court!!!
Saddam Asks US to Block Execution
I thought the left wanted us to give Iraqis more responsibility for themselves.
December 30th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Another socialist bites the dust, or rather swings above the dust.
December 30th, 2006 at 12:40 am
See a sarcastic visual of George Bush playing a round of “Hangman”…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
December 30th, 2006 at 2:16 am
Nothing like a good ol’ year end lynchin’
I bet even Osama broke out the bubbly tonight…
December 30th, 2006 at 3:23 am
Pity they could only hang him once.
Some gruesome (or good) details of how Saddam died are now coming out.
Wasn’t pretty apparently, but he refused a hood, ranted about Palestine, Bush as terrorist, usual guff.
Here’s some more detail from one of my blogs :
http://www.yournewreality.blogspot.com
Hopefully this will be the last dictator that gets any support or weapons from the West.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:45 am
I don’t know if I approve of your shot of booze. I mean it. Really….
Use a glass! Not a dirty and contaminated piece of expended ammunition.
December 30th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
I won’t celebrate death, but I will breathe a sigh of relief that one more bloody monster is removed from the world.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Wax poetic? Moi? I know real poets.From Saddam Hussein is still dead:
Hang down your head Mad Saddam
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head you madman
Poor boy you got to die …
December 30th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Crittenden
Hope your celebatory hangover isn’t too bad! Evidently your sense of humor isn’t in tact, if you didn’t understand the “well hung” post at the HuffPo.
December 30th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
What is it with leftists and inappropriate sexual innuendo? They use it every single time something happens that gets up their noses. A projection of personal shortcomings, perhaps?