The full video of Saddam’s execution
Posted by: DJ Allyn, ITW in , Cool stuff, Dead Pool, Fry Them, Now!, Occupation of Iraq, Useless Swine7:24 pm
The following video came from a witness with a cellphone at Saddam’s hanging, so it is kinda jittery. But you can see the money shot quite well…
Saddam is saying something right before they drop
him. Twenty points if you can tell us what he is saying…
Extra points if you can describe the execution you would have given Saddam.
Mine is below the fold. (Parents, watch your children)
I would have first given Saddam enough morphine to last about an hour, because at first I wouldn’t want him to really feel anything — just watch.
I would then slowly insert him feet first into a wood chipper, slowly grinding away at his feet and legs. It should go slow enough that just grinding him up to his groin takes about an hour. I would want him to see everything.
By the time it gets up to his groin, the morphine should be just wearing off. By now, I would want him to start feeling the pain — but not enough that he would pass out because of it. Feeding him at a rate of about a half-inch a minute, I figure by the time the chipper gets to the real vital organs, he would just about be feeling the full pain.
Once it is apparent that he has actually died from the effects of the chipper grinding his vitals, I would then just dump the rest of him into the chipper.
I figure the entire process should have taken about an hour and ten minutes tops.
How is THAT for a Liberal perspective?
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Eh. I was kinda hoping the rope would stretch just a bit, ensuring a somewhat more drawn out death (as he gave all his victims). Oh well. Dead is dead.
In other news, a new restaurant catering to the vermiform opened up in an empty lot in Baghdad….
December 30th, 2006 at 7:41 pmAnd, oh yes, FIRST!
Virgin no more!
December 30th, 2006 at 7:41 pmAre you complaining he was hung with a new rope?
Personally, I would have rather seen him hang with a strand of barbed wire.
December 30th, 2006 at 7:43 pmHis executioners are praising Sadr and he tells them to go to hell.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:00 pmI thought the same thing as a poster at Aces. This was shot by the same guy who shot alien autopsy.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:11 pmALL-FUCKING-RIGHT! :thumbup_tb:
Time to hit my bar again I think.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:11 pmThe rope was too fucking long! His neck snapped so it was over quick. It just seems to me it shoulda took longer,ya know?
December 30th, 2006 at 8:24 pmAnd yeah, what’s with the new rope?
jeeeezus DJ…..
Now you know why we don’t you liberal types permanently in power…..
As for me, I would have preferred the old standby, execution by firing squad. Fore some reason, it just seems to pack more of a wallop.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:26 pmHere’s a translation of the lively pre-death chat.
His last word was “Muhammad.”
Our last word is HAHA.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:28 pmWhy, because we are too timid in our punishment? :lol_wp:
How would YOU have killed Saddam? (Remember, this is Saddam, not some regular murderer on death row) Are you ready for how I would execute Osama? I don’t think you are…
December 30th, 2006 at 8:35 pmOh, and Patrick! Long time, no talk to!
December 30th, 2006 at 8:41 pmI think he is either saying “Raghad feed my cat” OR “Death 2 America”.
I say “good riddance to bad rubbish”!
December 30th, 2006 at 8:42 pmHmm… I might go with the full Braveheart treatment.
Stetch him out to where every joint has popped (and some have dislocated), then loose him. Hang him until he turns purple, then drop him down. Strap him down, disembowel him. Show him his entrails and other vittles. Then, when he’s gasping, electrocute him. By ramping the voltage up from 20 millvolts, to where he’s Cajun-style.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:48 pmsadamn was saying…… “if only John Kerry would have won……”
I would execute Sadamn by making all his 72 virgins look like tipper gore, madelyn halfbrite, teraysa kerry and helen thomas.
December 30th, 2006 at 8:49 pmI’m annoyed.
I wasn’t in Afghanistan for Osama’s capture (since it hasn’t happened yet). And now, I’ve missed out on Saddam’s death.
As important an event as this is to many Iraqis who lost family to this monster, I would of handled the execution much differently.
I would of had it in a huge public arena like a soccer stadium, and invited as many people who lost family members as could fill the stadium.
Of course, it would of been a security nightmare, but I think the victims and Iraq deserve more than a thuggish execution done in a secluded location.
Never the less, I’m not about to shed a tear for Saddam. He’s dead, he can’t hurt anyone else, and that’s what matters the most.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
December 30th, 2006 at 8:49 pmApril 28, 1937 - Dec 30, 2006
muqtada al-sadr
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December 30th, 2006 at 9:10 pmThe should have hanged him in that town square where that statue of him was torn down.
And DJ… I like your method. But there are much, much more painful ways to kill folks than that. However one probably shouldn’t go all-out on someone like Saddam… There are actually worse folks than him in the world, so I’d say you have it about right.
But really, when it comes down to it, I almost think the best thing we could have done would be to force Saddam to work in a comedy club for the rest of his life.
Think about some of the skits we could force him to do:
“The Great Dictator comes out of the closet.”
“Do you want any Whey with those Kurds?”
“Saddam’s Predicament; Lots of oil, but no gerbils.”
And then there is always the skits for Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, AKA Baghdad Bob:
“There are no American troops in Baghdad… Now with 50% more free, order now!”
And the classic:
“There are no gerbils in Saddam Hussein’s ass.”
December 30th, 2006 at 9:13 pmNicely put, DJ. It’s a shame so many of your compatriots on the left are using this as an excuse to howl about the immorality of capital punishment.
Like you say, this isn’t a regular death row inmate. How you feel about executions or Bush or whatever is irrelevant: if you oppose the execution of a murderer who belongs the Million Club, you’re basically pro-evil.
December 30th, 2006 at 9:19 pmExtra points? How about dangling alive from a rope around his neck being slowly lowered into one of his plastic shredders…….
December 30th, 2006 at 9:39 pmThere are just some animals you must put down. Would I have actually done an execution as the one I described? No, not even for Saddam.
In most cases, I am against the death penalty, but I am able to make exceptions for mass murderers or any crime involving a child.
What would have been a just punishment for Saddam? Putting him in a stadium with the families of all of his victims and let them decide his fate.
December 30th, 2006 at 9:44 pmIn 14th century Egypt, Shajar ad-Durr, the Hillary Clinton of her time, was beaten to death with shower shoes. That would have been another fitting demise for Saddam (or Hillary too, for that matter).
December 30th, 2006 at 9:51 pmStill, its always pleasant to contemplate a family reunion, and I’m sure that Uday and Qusay were there to greet their old man on arrival. Hey, any more of the family hanging around?
I really don’t care to see the maggot die. I’m pleased as punch that Satan gets to check another one off his shopping list, but I think the euphoria is misplaced. We aren’t done in Iraq or A-stan, and whatever our beef with soDamn, his people had better reasons to speed him on his way to Allah. I would’ve taken him out to an isolated spot in the desert, made him dig his own hole, put two behind his ear, let the body fall in, cover it up, and walk away. Case closed. I think a “who’s next?” attitude instead of celebration sends a better message to the murderous minions of Mo. I know I’d be more afraid of the guys rolling up their sleaves then ones toasting eachother on a good hangin’.
December 30th, 2006 at 9:52 pmI’ve gotta sound off with TWO ideas. The first would be filmed, of course, and woul have Sadass hit in both kneecaps with a ballpeen hammer, then slashed once with a razor blade, just to get the scent of blood in the air. he would immediately then be thrown into a pen full of hungry pigs, who would then eat him alive! :thumbup_tb: #2, he would be duct taped to a chair, and then, relatives of his victims woulgd get 1 hit, and of course, there would be instruments available to them, such as short icepicks, pliers, billy clubs, etc., and the piece of shit would get a SLOW, painful death. Caveman, I like your idea too, but how about tourniqueting his legs just before lowering him into the shredder, so he wouldn’t bleed out quickly, and still get ALL of the pain?
December 30th, 2006 at 9:56 pmPersonally I would have voted for the old “Honey and Fire Ants” method.
Take the bastard out to the desert..(mid Summer would have been perfect). Tie him down spread eagled out on the hot sand. Pour honey all over (with special attention to the “family jewels”) and dump a bucket or two of fire ants all over him. (making sure to give the bucket a good shake just to piss the ants off.)
After an hour or two of that…bring in the big guns….A bucket of Scorpions. He would certainly do alot of screaming and yelling, and it would be slow and painful to boot. Of course you could also make sure to have on hand a Cobra or two just in case the old bastard is tougher than he looks.
*sigh* Oh well..maybe the next Murderous Dictator can try it out.
December 30th, 2006 at 10:09 pmTake him up in the Space Shuttle and toss him overboard.
Sure it’s fast, but I bet simultaneous freezing, decompression and suffocation hurts like a bitch.
Plus the incineration by reentry means no possibility of a zombie! :smile_wp:
I don’t think actually have data on what “spacing” would do to a person, so it’s Science!
December 30th, 2006 at 10:27 pm“we actually”
December 30th, 2006 at 10:53 pmContinuous Intravenous Viagra for Saddam and a visit everyday from Helen Thomas, Janet Reno, Rosy O’Donut, “Stretch Pelosi, Madelaine Halfbright and Her Thighnes The Hildebeest…….FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!
Allahu Fucking Ackbar!!
December 30th, 2006 at 11:18 pmCount me in with the Imperial Agent Provocateur:
I’m glad to see I’m not the only LC who feels a little conflicted over Saddam getting what he had coming. My own first reaction to the news was much the same as DJ Allyn described above: glee mixed with regret that Saddam didn’t face the same method of execution that he dealt out to so many of his own victims (the wood-chipper treatment). I then found myself wondering if this sort of attitude wasn’t akin to doing an end-zone sack dance on the curb after taking out the garbage:
– “BOO-YAH! The rock is in the hole! Nothin’ but net!”
– “Honey, could you keep it down, please? The kids are already in bed…”
Yeah, the Iraqis - and the Kuwaitis, for that matter - darned well ought to be dancing in the streets at Saddam’s demise. For America, however, Saddam represented unfinished business: a mess we should have cleaned up properly the first time we had the chance…and didn’t.
Had Bush 41, Colin Powell and James A. Baker III did a proper job of things seventeen years ago, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and some three thousand US troops (and counting) might still be alive today. Yet, despite the ongoing example of lost blood and treasure in Iraq, pretty much the same cast of characters seem bound and determined to make the same kind of mistakes that led us to call off Desert Storm before the enemy was fully defeated.
And not just in Iraq.
So I’m not sure we should be celebrating at all. The job isn’t done yet.
December 30th, 2006 at 11:26 pmAs Infidel River Rat noted, one might expect a guy to soon exsanguinate by shredding.
It so happens I’ve seen a page or two on the Net about the presumed effects of spacing, but that was years ago & I don’t recall the site(s). IIRC, once upon a time a suited astronaut type was practicing in a vacuum chamber when some accidental leak exposed him to decompression; fortunately he was rescued in time. He lost consciousness after maybe 15 seconds & said the last thing he felt was moisture boiling off his tongue. So tossing Sodom out an airlock would’ve yielded little bang for the buck.
As a US American I’ve got no problem with how Iraq eliminated the big creep. His country tried him (as we should allow) & was entitled to give him a criminal’s execution. That it was too good for him is unavoidable, but I’ve given up the notion that I should try dispensing cosmic justice. If I believe in a morally-ordered universe, I should let that take care of itself with the creep & his legions of dirty workers (Which does not mean I wouldn’t battle them all to the death if necessary). The only appealing embellishment might be to chop off his noggin & display it on a pole “as a warning to the next ten generations [insert rest of famous Vir quote from Babylon 5 here].”
December 30th, 2006 at 11:53 pmThey say that inserting a needle under the nail bed of the fingers and toes is enough to break even a hypnotic suggestion not to talk.
Let’s turn next to multiple fake executions, waterboarding, denailing, use of psychiatric medication to enhance pain, stress, and paranoia…
December 30th, 2006 at 11:57 pmA flying lesson at 30,000 feet after being smeared in pig fat….thrown from the Empire State Building, dropped into a vat of molecular acid at 1mm per minute…thrown into a pit of rabid wild boars whose tusks have been smeared with pig feces and a slow acting poison.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:03 am“…that some favors come with too high a price.”
Nice to know that I am not the only student of B5 here. While I think that St Garibaldi had a disturbing habit of getting it right, I’ve always liked Sinclair/Valen. The Vorlons were right to revere him. Steadfast resolve, a willingness to sacrifice everything, and and an inplacable sense of calm punctuated by moments of intensity that left no doubt that if only one was goning to be standing when it was done, it wouldn’t be you.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:09 amAve Imperator!
December 31st, 2006 at 2:40 amPersonaly, I would have used the old Roman method of tossing him into a sack with a rat, a dog, and a rooster. Tie off the top and throw the whole thing into any handy body of water. The subject is shredded by the critters before he can drown.
Dog lovers are free to substitute additional rats rather than a dog.
If I were going to go that route, I would have cut out a couple of steps. Take him to the desert, and put two behind his ear. I might consider tossing some gas on him and burn the corpse. I forget, can Muslims be cremated?
Wasn’t it Dick Cheney himself who said something to the effect that it would be a huge mistake and a quagmire if we were to have gone and toppled Saddam back in 1991?
December 31st, 2006 at 2:59 amBlah. Amateurs.
I’d paralyze his diaphragm and put him on a respirator to ensure that he continued breathing.
Then I’d flip off the respirator, let him enjoy the feeling of suffocating for a couple of minutes, then flip it back on.
Rinse, lather, repeat until I got bored with it.
Anybody who has ever experienced dyspnoea due to asthma, anafylactic shock or any other reason will know just exactly how horrible the feeling of suffocating is.
And as to celebrating his hanging, I don’t see a problem there. UNLESS, of course, anybody is actually silly enough to think that his death changes anything or that it means that the job is done. It isn’t. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t celebrate.
When the British 7th Armored annihilated the Italian forces at Beda Fomm in February of 1941, it didn’t mean that the war was over. It didn’t even mean that the North African campaign was over. Not by a long shot.
But I dare say that the Brits had reason to celebrate nonetheless.
This hanging was the last paragraph of Hussein’s reign of terror. He and his depraved, criminally insane sons are now all in Hell and what they were is now irrevocably and blessedly gone and over with. They’re not coming back. This one is for the people of Iraq, who have been denied closure for way too long. I celebrate with them because I, like they, rejoice in the elimination of tyrants.
It doesn’t mean that it’s over, it doesn’t mean that we can all go home and twiddle our thumbs, but it DOES mean that justice, in his case, was finally served.
If that’s not reason for celebration, then I don’t know what is.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:25 amActually, that’s what the little shitbag requested, “the death of a soldier.” Traditionally that’s how soldiers are executed, even cowards & quasi-deserters like Slovik in WW2. Murderers and rapists were always executed by hanging, though the rationale isn’t clear to me. Perhaps the theory is that cowardice under fire is somewhat understandable, though not forgiveable, but indulging in voluntary conduct that disgraces the uniform, like rape & murder, disqualifies you from an honorable death.
A reasonable person would expect a proper hanging to be quicker and less painful than a firing squad, so it’s still pretty bizarre overall.
We still have a bunch of shitbags on military death row but it’s hard to say if any of them will ever die. If they do, I believe it’s lethal injection, period. Too bad, since I’d like to see that piece of shit Muslim airborne soldier do the rope dance for fragging in Iraq. With any luck some other prisoner will kill him.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:39 amBoiled slowly in a cauldron of lard would’ve been my choice…
December 31st, 2006 at 6:02 amHow about a “Hannibal” death? Throw him in a pit of pigs and let them eat him. Then collect the pig shit and sell him on eBay. Every Muslim would have a chance to own a piece of Saddam.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:22 amI’m think stripping him naked and dumping him in Kurdistan would have been a nice touch.
While I am glad that this part in Iraqi history is done, I do realize that things are not finished over there or in Afghanistan. But it’s nice to have acheived a milestone.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:47 amBy boiling slowly, do you mean “lowered slowly into”?
Or, “lay him out on the surface of the solidified lard, turn on the heat, and wait”?
December 31st, 2006 at 7:55 amCollecting on the 20 points:
Saddam gets most of the way through the shahada, (crappily transliterated here):
December 31st, 2006 at 8:37 am“eshhadu enna la alah illa allah wa mohammad rusulihi”- “I testify that there is no God but God and Mohammad is his messenger.” Unfortunately for him, he only got to the word Mohammad before the only snap more satisfying than “yo momma’s so fat, when she sits around the house…she sits around the house!”
That was both my first post ever and my application for position of Imperial Splodeydope Interpreter.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:40 amThe method and manner are irrelevent.
What is important is, the Universe is one step closer to equilibrium.
It’s a pity, he could only die once.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:44 amI’d just have his victims’ families draw lots to see who gets to shoot his sorry ass, and be done with it.
The whole world has spent just about enough time thinking about Saddam. Put his mug on the History Channel next to Hitler’s, and move on.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:59 amHey guys this isn’t funny anymore… guys? Hey… Ramsey Clark’s gonna kick your ……
December 31st, 2006 at 11:23 amWelcome to the Rott, and what a splendid job too.
The job doesn’t pay much (and when I say “much”, I mean “anything at all”), but you’re certainly welcome to it. :smile1_tb:
December 31st, 2006 at 11:38 amzoomietech, are you a fellow DLI grad, perchance?
:bye_tb:
December 31st, 2006 at 12:11 pmI’ve gotten rich over what Misha pays me here. Oh wait, that isn’t from here. D’oh! :lol_wp:
December 31st, 2006 at 12:25 pmHerr Hussein’s mortal coil has been remanded to his relatives.
“The head of Saddam’s Albu-Nassir’s clan said the body showed no signs of mistreatment.”
Aside from the black & blue stretch marks around his neck of course. And his little pecker peeking out from the slit in his throat.
Unnatural signs? There should have been crop circles mowed into his body. Before he was hung.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:57 pmThere’s a traditional Japanese execution which, I believe, involves burying him up to his neck and then asking passersby if they’d like to saw at it a bit with a wooden saw. but maybe I’m remembering wrong.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pmYeah, but to reach any kind of REAL equilibrium someone is going to have to bomb DC. There is WAY to much stupidity in DC for it to be anything other than evil, these pitiful, pusillanimous poltroon, politicians must know that they are slowly killing America and just not give a damn.
If it were up to me So-Damn Insane would have never been found, it would have been much better if the soldiers who found him just put a couple of rounds in his head, closed his “spider-hole” and left him to rot, thus saving the world from the stupidity of the show trial, the waste of resources for said trial, and listening to his constant diatribes against everything that is good in the world, I mean, he almost sounded like a Dhimmicrat politician AFTER an election.
’tis good to be home and back to posting with a real computer. Take it from me folks, PDAs and smartphones are great in their element, but things are never quite the same on them as a normal computer.
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December 31st, 2006 at 4:16 pmI have to admit, I did wiggle my fingers when I saw him drop.
Ya wouldn’t have thought to hear such viciousness from mild-mannered Vir Cotto. Sorta like our Imperial Tech Wizard.
December 31st, 2006 at 5:16 pm50.
Yeah, that’s a note at the end of the film version of Shogun. IIRC it says after the battle which established the Tokugawa Shogunate, the losing rival got this. The saw was bamboo, & it took three days. In Sodamn’s case there would probably have been too many intensely motivated people to keep him alive long at all. They would each likely have started kicking him, & I have to admit his head would be just too tempting a football!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:11 pmmy ideal deaht for him. Take an electric sander and put emry cloth on it, sanding all of his skin off till its bare muscle, and be sure to give extra detail to the genetailia. as for the toe and finger nails, pull them out with a pliers.
Then, make him roll around, or sprinkle a combination of asbestos and anthrax over him, till he finally bleeds to death. or just leave hi8m in the desert with no skin to protect him.
January 1st, 2007 at 4:21 amBC,
Yes I am, two times over. Did my part to keep the eagle firmly planted at Sloat monument, too.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:24 amHere’s one:
Tie him to a pole, invite everyone that EVER lost a loved one to Saddam, line them up and let them each hit him one time as hard as they can wherever they want until he is dead.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am[…] Saddam Hussein’s execution was an important development in the War on Terror. Although he had been out of power for years, seeing him brought to justice after a trial is a great symbol of the power of democracy. Some people are upset that he was not tried for even more crimes; but, considering the 100 or so deaths he was on trial for was enough to get him the death penalty, what more could they want? You can’t kill the guy twice! (Some folks over at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (language warning in effect) have some ideas - as well as the video of the actual execution.) […]
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