Saddamhussein Syndrome
MEMRI rounds up some recent interviews with members of Saddam’s defense team on several Arab news channels. Some good laughs and Saddam-like logic in here:
Defense attorney: ” … my tears began to flow, because I knew that this meeting would, in all probability, be our last. He was smoking a cigar. He looked at me and began to laugh … ’Wadud, men do not cry in times of hardship.’”
Same def atty: “All the prison guards who were with him held him in high esteem. There was an American officer who was in charge of him, who was later transferred when his mission was over. When that officer came to say goodbye, he embraced him, and began to weep. Even the martyred president cried.”
Interviewer: ”Why did some people, when asked for their opinion, say that Saddam’s execution by hanging failed to follow international norms?”
Another def atty: “Of course it didn’t. First of all, they say that they did it the English way. The English way is to put the noose on from the side. But using fiber rope is forbidden to begin with. We plan to sue them for using this method …
“Let me tell you that it is the fiber rope that makes the neck snap. Saddam did not suffocate to death. ‘Suffocation to death’ means pressing down upon the neck until the airway is closed, and the person is strangulated to death. Saddam died of a broken neck. He was not sentenced to ‘death by neck-breaking,’ yet this is what happened…”
A third def atty “The execution of President Saddam Hussein is one of the greatest crimes of our times, perpetrated by the largest country in this century … It is my right and the right of any citizen and any Iraqi to demand that the current regime in Iraq be placed on trial.”
Interviewer: “But you are not an Iraqi, are you?”
Def atty: “Sir, I am not an Iraqi, but there are many Iraqis who wish they could place these people on trial and I was personally told about this.”
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:04 pm on Monday, January 29, 2007
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January 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Well shit. We just can’t do a damn thing right…next Iraqi brutal murderer should have the suffocating rope…Of course, we could always…or the Iraqis could, just shoot the bastards, (it’s not like they don’t have Persian arms) or cut their heads off (seemingly always a crowd pleaser, in the Islamistworld).
Tossing off buildings, from film and video shown, of this former regime is also big. HEY! Chemical Ali, didn’t get that name for being an honor student at Baghdad U.
Hey, the old Lamppost Hang…that will suffocate. Charring and then bridge hanging. This attorney is correct, there are so many, BETTER alternatives, most of which, Saddam invented himself. Where is Doctor Death and Doctor Germ, when you need them, huh?
I can just see Pat Sajak and Vanna White, spinning the wheel of death, ummm fortune. Ummmm, Pat, I’d like to buy a bowel….
January 30th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
We could have put him feet-first through a plastic shredder, an old Iraqi custom, but instead we felt we should do it our traditional English way — a quick neck-break. Sue us for following tradition.
Sociopaths are notorious for charming their victims. Saddam Hussein was no exception.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Of course, I jest. We didn’t do it anyway. The Iraqis did it.
January 30th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ted Bundy was a sweetie pie, too. I weep and tear my hair over the death of any mass murderer. Where’s the ashes? Where’s my sackcloth? I’m kinda busy right now, but if all ya’ll will remind me, I’ll get around to mourning really loud and obvious, I promise.