Saddam's Hanging Last Words: "Muqtada al-Sadr"

My Pet Jawa has the VIDEO OF SADDAM'S HANGING HERE. hat tip Rich

So Saddam's last words were Muqtada al-Sadr.  Maybe it's like the bride's bouquet, as in you're next suckuh! Over at CNN via Jihad Watch;

As the noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled, "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said.

Hussein mockingly uttered one last phrase before he died: "Muqtada al-Sadr," according to Haddad.

An executioner read from the Quran and then carried out the hanging. Hussein died "very, very quickly" just after 6 a.m., al-Rubaie said.

Leftards caterwaul the murdering, bloodthirsty dictator here. BUSH CHIMPHITLER!

UPDATE: Some historical perspective over at American Thinker:

"Most of the great butchers of the 20th century died of old age, in their own beds, some of them honored by millions. Not a single one met justice in the sense accepted in free states across the world. The handful who died otherwise are aberrations, victims of strange events that act as models for nothing. There is one single exception - the hanging of Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006 after a careful, lengthy trial carried out under extremely difficult circumstances according to internationally recognized judicial norms. The state of Iraq has succeeded where the rest of the civilized world has failed. It is a singular achievement, and it will stand." via Instapundit hat tip Bruce

UPDATE: How the West Could be Lost hatip Norman

Comments

[TommyG]

Alternative last words - "Whoda thunk it?"

[TommyG]

I've been thinking all day about this act of capital punishment and the reaction of "civilized" governments. Of course the Euros are raising a hue and cry about the execution of Saddam, while Iran applauds the application of the penalty - and lo, the USA is in the same camp as Iran on this one. See? Does this mean we suck?

But since when does being civilized mean we have to roll over for any threat that comes along, and to avoid the permenant means of dealing with threats, thugs, mass murderers and despots? Maybe fear and cowardice is the Euro interpretation of civilized. But who wants to be like them?

[chsw]

Saddam is pictured modeling an "Alcatraz Ascot."

Reports had the drop as a merciful 1 meter, with Hussein's neck snapping immediately. Hussein deserved a drop of but a few inches, so that he could have been conscious for minutes while strangling.

I wonder if the new reports and the videos will supplant the early reports that Hussein died after saying "Palestine is Arab." Bet'cha a dollar, PGO, that false report will still be circulating next week.

chsw

[Yidwithlid]

This Hanging was wrong...Too quick they should have made him suffer

[wxjames]

Some good news to round out the old year.
Saddam Hussein has gone to play casino with Allah, and the SICC has been driven into the sea by Ethiopia. From just this, we(Olmert) could learn that screwing your people can and will be used against you, and that even a second rate power can win if they don't pay any attention to the press, Europe, or the UN. Just attack, kill, and overwhelm the enemy, and accept only unconditional surrender. It's not rocket science, ya know.

[Steve Harkonnen]

When I watched the video, I got the impression that they falsely gave Saddam an idea when he was going to fall. It looked like he was anticipating the fall, but to me, it looked like it came a few seconds before they were telling him it would, LOL.

Perhaps this should be an indicator to Ahmadinejad - that he might be next, because his popularity is falling like a lead balloon over in Iran right now.

I was thinking of getting the vid, redoing it to the tune of "Gallows Pole" by Led Zeppelin.

[tazzerman2000]

Steve, too funny. I almost spewed the ol' coffee... Gallows Pole indeed :)

As far as the hanging itself goes AND the lefts reaction to it, if Saddam isn't the poster child for the cause of capital punishment, then I guess NO ONE ever deserves it. Have I got that right? Is that what the left is saying here? No capital punishement even in the case of a mass murdering, despotic mad man? Should we then have to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year keeping him alive and in jail?

He was afforded more rights and privs than the vast majority of those he killed where.

There IS such a thing as right and wrong. Having Saddam pay the ultimate price for his ultimate crimes was the right thing to do. It's has clear a case FOR captial punishment as I've seen in my lifetime.

[skye]

Was there no available woodchipper in the whole of Iraq? Death by woodchipper would have been poetic justice for saddam.

[eavesdropper]

love it skye.... excellent!

Steve Harkonnen - I'm with Tazz, almost choked laughing, that's a great idea! Led Zeppelin it, maybe you should wait till a better video of the hanging comes out, which should be soon. Maybe it'll go VIRAL! (love your site)

[clyde]

Commenters and pundits were yammering on yesterday about "what to do with Saddam's body" or "where to bury it so it couldn't end up being the site for a shrine".

I have the perfect answer, which, unfortunately, is too late:

Cremate him, then flush the ashes down the toilet while relatives of his victims pee.

Videotape the whole thing, and send a copy to al-Jazeera for broadcast throughout the middle east. Oh, yeah. THAT would be justice.

[john jay]

friends:

saddam's execution should give us pause to reflect upon the genuine achievements of iraq, as a country, over the past several years.

the constant drumbeat of opinion informs us the iraq is not, and cannot ever be, a genuine country, given its history as an artificial construct european colonialism. as support for this, we hear ad nuseum, that the religious, ethnic and tribal divisions render the country ungovernable.

yet the economy flourishes.

the society and its institutions function, not without interruption, not without violence and bloodshed, but private and civic life go forward. that so many victims are "available" represents a macbre confirmation of this fact: public gatherings do not occur absent a public life.

free elections in which the populace demonstrates great determination to vote have been held, and those who stayed away from the process initially have admitted the efficacy of the process by joining in the electoral process on subsequent elections.

the iraqi police and security organizations are becoming more efficient, hardly perfect, but functioning.

and, there is this trial, the guilty verdict, and the execution, all carried on under tremendoulsy adverse circumstances, but culminating in a fitting end to a savage despot.

the remnants of his regime, the remnants of its tribal military force, and its security appartatus and political arm, have tried to disrupt the functioning of the government, and tried to free saddam, and disrupt the trial, and to question its process and outcome.

in spite of this, the trial concluded, and its sentence was carried out in a timely and efficient manner.

these facts do not seem to give critics of the iraqi government pause. it ought to. iraq exists, and it works.

my guess is that with saddam gone, it will work even better.

john jay

[john jay]

oops, should have run the spell checker before posting. --

ad nauseam
macabre
apparatus

sorry for being careless, and a bad speller.

john jay