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Saddam's Last Days

cnn.com — Tour of prison reveals the last days of Saddam Hussein.

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  • DaDrake, on 03/28/2008, -27/+11Obviously treated better than he should have been.
    • overtoke, on 03/28/2008, -13/+10You're a *****.
    • curme, on 03/28/2008, -7/+7Yes. Pesky morality and rule of law.
    • Myonosken, on 03/28/2008, -5/+10The bloke was going to receive his punishment, why the ***** would it have been right to torture him till then? The point was meant to be that we are more civilised- the very fact it was twisted so he ended up being executed in Iraq was shoddy enough.
    • FlimBlimmer, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Who the ***** would bury DaDrake's comment???? He said nothing of torture. Hussein was allowed MUCH too many luxuries in his last days. He deserved an empty cell with a blanket and toilet. Nothing else.
    • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2The international left thinks genocidal dictators should get a comfy posh suite in the Hague with cable TV, a playstation, unlimited visitations, maybe even a visit from one of the girls from Amsterdam's red light district from time to time.
  • Bawk, on 03/28/2008, -16/+9R.I.P.V.I.C.
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -7/+12I started reading one of his books, Zabiba and the King.
    http://www.amazon.com/Zabiba-King-Saddam-Hussein/d ...

    He was a gifted writer, I'm really enjoying it.
  • PocchieTheMan, on 03/28/2008, -23/+7He planted a garden? What a fag.
    • overtoke, on 03/28/2008, -6/+6God planted a garden too. Look how stupid you are.
      • drunkentoad, on 03/28/2008, -8/+2ouch!
      • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1because he planted a garden, let's look past the fact that he killed maybe 300,000 people http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.gra ...
        at the bootom:
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        Human rights groups believe about 300,000 people were killed during Saddam's 24-year rule, which ended when U.S.-led forces toppled his regime in 2003.
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    • waspbr, on 03/28/2008, -6/+12no dude a fag is a man screwing another man. planting a garden is a quiet pass-time/ hobbie...If the first thing that pops in your mind when you hear someone was planting a garden is homosexuality then that says a lot about how secure you are about your gender
    • VinnieDaMac, on 03/28/2008, -2/+4That was so stupid that I actually laughed out loud.
    • brock2020, on 03/28/2008, -2/+3LMAO.. Diggers need to lighten up.. this was the funniest comment I've seen all day.
  • m21fires, on 03/28/2008, -11/+6V.I.C. you will be missed and may your poetry live on.
    • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2link to poetry?
      • Kaitsu, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4Quoting from his poetry book:

        "Dear Diary:

        Mood: Apathetic.

        My life is spiraling downward.
        I couldn't get enough money to go to the
        Blood Red Romance and Suffocate me dry concert.
        It sucks 'cause they play some of my favorite songs
        like "Stab My Heart Because I Love You" and
        "Rip Apart My Soul" and of course,
        "Stabby Rip Stab Stab." "
  • allfatherblack, on 03/28/2008, -8/+5Sigh... more wasted potential...
    Errr... non-violent potential that is...
  • drunkentoad, on 03/28/2008, -6/+19Wow, I know he was a really bad dude, but this kinda makes me feel sorry for him.

    . . . . the power of words huh
    • overtoke, on 03/28/2008, -8/+12He's not as bad as... idiot Bush for example.
      • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -4/+3"The rest of the world knew him as Saddam Hussein, a man blamed for the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis during more than 20 years as the country's president."

        And he was executed. Most the world now sees Bush as a man to be blamed for nearly a million Iraqi civilian casualties. I wonder if he were to miraculously be held responsible for his actions if would he get the same sentence.
        • brock2020, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2a million? LOL. riiiiight
        • Midtowner, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3A million dead Iraqis, give or take 900,000. Iraqbodycount.org estimates between 85K and 90K. About 1/3 of those casualties are members of the former regime's military. Most of the rest were killed by terrorist insurgency groups who do fun stuff such as strapping bombs to mentally retarded women and sending them into the public square.

          It takes an absolute moron to not see the difference between Iraqis killed by Saddam and casualties of the current Iraqi insurgency. Saddam ordered his generals to use poison gas to kill off entire villages. Go ahead.. digg me down.. Digg hates to be confronted with facts.
        • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1655,000 as of 11/2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
        • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.gra ...
          Oh my gosh you people are sooo dumb
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -11/+36Whatever else he might have done in his life, Saddam Hussein died like a ***** man. I doubt anyone in our government would go to the gallows with as much calm and dignity as he did.

    I can picture Paul Wolfowitz especially kicking and blubbering like an infant.
    • BrotherBewar, on 03/28/2008, -9/+3"Saddam Hussein died like a ***** man"
      Yeah right. he was found in a ***** rat hole hiding for his life while his sons were in Baghdad fighting for their lives.
      And FYI he was stoned when he got executed, that explains his "calmness"
      • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2"FYI he was stoned " ...... Please provide the source you based that comment on.
        • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4The Al Sadr militia smokes up with everyone they execute. Even hardcore Muslim insurgents like a chillax hanging.
  • yooftheness, on 03/28/2008, -10/+8the guy killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and he's smoking cigars in a private garden!?
    • waspbr, on 03/28/2008, -6/+17so is bush
      • tehmacuser, on 03/28/2008, -1/+5well played sir, well played. +1
      • bonhoeffer, on 03/28/2008, -5/+2Accept that Bush didn't kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and doesn't smoke cigars.
        • waspbr, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2okay... so you have been living in a cave for the past 5 years, you have a lot to catch up...
      • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1people are dumb, they make ***** up and then get mad when you tell them they are full of crap... "Bush single-handedly kills 5 million Iraqis" -- yeah.. that number just keeps getting bigger.
        • waspbr, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2to be fair, hundreds of thousands is accurate...
          • 5urr3al5am, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1fair? hundreds of thousands? how do you figure that? that's the most ludicrous thing I've heard? It's like people who don't like President Bush make up crap to make themselves angrier, and then spread around the misinformation.
          • waspbr, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1no dude, he started a war on false pretenses that has led to the death of hundreds of thousands.Since he is not responsible for starting the war, he is also responsible for the lives that are at stake in it, denying this is just plain stupid.
            So how many do you reckon have died so far in the past 5 years?
    • JimSwarthow, on 03/28/2008, -5/+6yeah, I can't wait till Barama is in in office and he starts uncovering all those mass graves all over the US full of women and children that Bush sent to their deaths b/c they weren't the right ethnicity/political bent/threatening to his political career/power.

      honestly, some of you apologist/BDS sufferers somehow continue to shock me w/ your utter idiocy. thank GOD you idiots aren't in any way representative of the general public.
      • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -4/+2So it only matters to you that a human lives in the US when he is killed. Civilian deaths don't matter to you unless they occur in the same country to people that look and speak like you?
        • JimSwarthow, on 03/28/2008, -3/+4yeah right, that's what I said. idiot. - if you can't see the difference between GW (awful president) and Hussein (sociopathic mass-murderer) then you are a bigger moron than what you're already coming across as.
        • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -4/+2The only difference is that Bush doesn't kill Americans in their own country, he instead sends them to a distant country to get killed. If he had sent them to Iraq with a plan, strategy, and appropriate equipment, as well as a long-term plan to finance their continued support then I would not draw the comparison.

          To add to that, not only is his poorly planned and ill-advised adventure costing American lives, but also the lives of Iraqi civilians. By taking a country that was relatively peaceful and removing all semblance of law and order, he opened up the country to chaos and allowed it to become a breeding ground for new and existing terrorist organizations. By 'taking the fight to them so we don't have to fight them here' Bush shows his disregard for Iraqi civilians who, up until his occupation, lived in relative safety.

          While he may not be considered 'homicidal', he can definitely be considered a mass-murderer -- even if only by sheer negligence.
          • JimSwarthow, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2"Iraqi civilians who, up until his occupation, lived in relative safety."

            good grief, the disconnect-from-reality you're suffering from is fkn scary. - do a Google search for the term(s) "Iraqi Kurds nerve agent mustard gas" and get back to us.
          • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2I did, and I came up with Halabja poison gas attack which occurred March 16–17, 1988 and killed approx. 5,000. So, with the exception of one village during 2 days in the 80s they did live in relative safety, at least compared to today where they suffer from significantly higher levels of sectarian violence (which was virtually non-existent prior to 2003). Bush's war has since killed anywhere between 95,000 and 750,000 Iraqi civilians, depending upon whose numbers you believe.

            And of course, prior to 2003 they also had running water and electricity for a full day.
          • JimSwarthow, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1"killed anywhere between 95,000 and 750,000 Iraqi civilians, depending upon whose numbers you believe."

            okay, you've got my sorta grudging respect for not parroting the hyperbolic and completely unsubstantiated numbers we see so much in the Press sans a caveat. but I still think you need to edumacate yourself to the horror that was the reality of the Hussein era - systematically exterminating anyone & everyone who oppses you will certainly bring about a "lull" in resistance, but it's still sociopathic and it's still unadulterated brutality on a scale never seen in the US. ask an Iraqi:

            http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=0803251706 ...

            excerpt:
            "The naked prisoner was bound to the table with a steel bar strapped to his shoulder" to ensure maximum immobility as his torturers electrocuted him or used the iron to inflict burns, Badawi said.

            Electric shocks were delivered via electrodes attached to a plastic syringe, the needle of which "was inserted into the urethra of the victim's sexual organ," Badawi added. "The pain was atrocious."

            Videos of torture sessions are also screened in a basement room. Terrified prisoners can be seen being beaten, having their arms and legs broken and being thrown from rooftops or blown up with explosives."

          • 11oops, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1I understand that. My argument isn't that Hussein was a tyrannic leader who shouldn't have been in charge of a country, but rather that we shouldn't have gone and plunged a country into war that has resulted in more civilian deaths in five years than Hussein caused in his 20 years of leadership. Yes, he tortured his citizens, that isn't an argument, but he didn't torture as many civilians as this war has killed, nor did he torture or kill nearly as many innocent women, children, grandparents, and full families as Bush's war has.

            And of those people he tortured, many were members of opposition parties, resistance fighters, and so called 'enemies of the government -- not women buyer groceries for their families, children in their beds, etc.
          • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -1/+211oops you're a dumb ass -- Hussein was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. "Yes he tortured his citizens" -- WTF? that's just something you're going to breeze over -- thats ok with you? There is only one reason that your logic is so flawed, and that is because of a very very basic denial ... Don't lie and say that you don't know the difference in circumstances when people are getting hurt defending themselves and and people being hurt as victims.
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -4/+13Also Saddam is only responsible for the deaths of "hundreds of thousands" if you count all the casualties on BOTH sides of the Iran/Iraq war.

    Not saying he was a super nice guy, but I don't think he quite earned the reputation of Hitleresque madman.
    • moletimer, on 03/28/2008, -2/+4....And the brutal massacre and genocide of the Kurds in Operation Anfal between 1986 and 1988.
      • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3...after those Kurds started fighting on the side of Iran.
        • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2The kurds fight for no one but themselves.
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -8/+14I would like to see the last days of the 4001 soldiers who have died in Iraq. I don't give a ***** about a megalomaniac oil rich dictator that the Vice President doesnt like.
    • crocodilexp, on 03/28/2008, -3/+7It's not that Saddam killed any of those 4001 those soldiers while he was in hiding or jail, you know... how about blaming that guy with W as his middle initial.
    • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -2/+22Ok, this is gonna be long.

      When I was in college in Portland, OR in 1998 I found out the guy who ran the 7-11 closest to my house was a Kurd from northern Iraq. I asked if I could interview him for a class, and he agreed. I thought I would get some real juicy horror stories about repression, torture, murder, etc. What I found out though surprised and kind of disappointed me.

      The guy didn't have very many bad things to say about Iraq. Instead, he told me about how well Iraq treated the Kurds (as opposed to the Turks, whom he hated.)

      -In Iraq Kurds were pretty much autonomous. They were allowed to not only speak Kurdish (which you can get in trouble for doing in Turkey,) but Saddam's government set up Kurdish TV stations, schools, public offices, etc. You could even get a college degree in an all-Kurdish university. All courtesy of Saddam's government.

      -Iraq reinvested more of its oil wealth in public infrastructure than any other country in the Middle East. Electricity, water, telephones, roads, you name it.

      -Saddam probably did not "gas his own people." The incident that the media always talks about happened during the Iran-Iraq war. The Kurds in the north (some of them) switched sides a few times during the course of the war. No one knows which side did the gassing, but the Kurds in question used an agent called cyanogen chloride, which Iran was known to have but which Iraq was not. Iraq uses plain old mustard gas.

      -Iraq had a very good reason for invading Kuwait (his words.) The Kuwaitis were slant-drilling underneath the Iraqi border and stealing their oil, and ignored several demands to stop.

      -The prisons, however, were very real.

      Not a saint, but not quite a "megalomaniac oil rich dictator" either. Saddam was one of the most progressive and responsible leaders in the middle east, as far as that goes.

      Reality is often very different from the comic book version that plays across CNN.
      • moletimer, on 03/28/2008, -3/+3So you are denying that he killed huge numbers of Kurds in the al-Anfal Campaign? Saddam was known to hate the Kurds, and he didn't let them get jobs in public services. Probably the only reason he granted them some autonomy was because he feared another rebellion after the 1991 Kurdish uprising (which he crushed).
      • brock2020, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Kuwaitis were using Mr. Burns Slant Drilling company, I saw it.
      • willskillz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2That was good. Never heard of the slant-drilling. It does make sense however. I'm sure big bad America would probably do the same.
      • bonhoeffer, on 03/28/2008, -5/+1If your 7-11 clerk had all is fingernails, his tongue, and wasn't crippled, he got through life making himself believe this sh#t. If you want to hear some truth, go to someone willing to speak it in the face of horror.
      • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2That is all *****, tell me why the Kurds welcomed us when we invaded? Tell me why I saw a Kurdish film on the IFC that depicted the US soldiers as liberators?

        Treated well by Saddam my ass.
        • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1makes you stop and wonder who writes this crap out on the web? is it ever from the US or is it from some where in the middle east?
  • chaos7, on 03/28/2008, -11/+11death penalty is wrong..even for saddam
    • CraigReed, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3I think a life in exile would probably have been more fitting of such a person.
      • bonhoeffer, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Nah, that would be Kidnapping.
        Maybe we could fine him.
        Nah, that would be Stealing.
        Maybe we could cluck our tongues at him.
        That would be RUDE!
  • jjive, on 03/28/2008, -2/+4This is almost as compelling as the video I shot of myself cleaning the toilet.
    • duniyadnd, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I commend you for cleaning the toilet. However, you may want to reconsider more fruitful ways of using your camera than taking video footage cleaning a toilet.
  • joper90, on 03/28/2008, -6/+5Who else needlessly killed 000's of innocent Iraqis for stupid reasons....
  • BUrAph, on 03/28/2008, -6/+6Apparently he also had the good fortune of being able to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut while in prison. Wonder if he found any humor in it?
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article6 ...
  • BUrAph, on 03/28/2008, -6/+3http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article6 ...
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -6/+3Ever notice that in the Western media you never get to hear Saddam's voice? Not once.
    There's a good reason for that. He sounds like Santa Claus.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMvUCCnpd-g&feature ...
    • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2What I find hilarious is how Saddam pretended in all those interviews with Dan Rather to not understand English yet he would grin and smile after Rather asked a question before the translator could translate it. Apparently he talked to his guards in perfect english too.
  • GunOfSod, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Hey just thought of a great followup story. "Bush's First Days" - a tour of the prison facilities at Abu Ghraib.

    Those lucky Iraqi's, things just keep getting better for them.
    • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I wonder what you'd find if you compared the recent 'terror' of Abu Ghraib (2002-2008) to the real terror during Saddams dictatorship and his two son's -- just a thought?
  • waggdogg, on 03/28/2008, -4/+6Trying to make this guy look human, he was not. Not only did he kill his people and paid people to kill others, he tortured the population. Your just like the Nazi sympathizers who tried to make Aldoph Hitler human.
    • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2yeah I often wonder where these commenters originate from..
  • thomasprebble, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2bury
  • villavicencio, on 03/28/2008, -3/+3Saddam was a monster and deserved to be punished but you know what? Despite Saddam's efforts to put himself in a positive light, the Bush legacy will probably overshadow his. If the history books of the future tell the unbiased truth, future generations will know that Bush I and Bush II somehow managed to do more harm in 10 years than what Saddam did in 30. Then they went unpunished.

    That's justice.
    • bonhoeffer, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Ironically, Iraqi history books will record that when the people were unable to defend themselves against a cruel tyrant, and the United Nations dilly-dallied and set up noble sounding committees, President Bush lead the greatest nation on earth to destroy the tyrant, and establish rule of law and political democracy in Iraq.
      • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Shame you are getting dugg down, Iraq is the ONLY Arab nation with a bill of rights, I guess that means nothing.
      • 5urr3al5am, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Sadly people don't like the truth-- and hey guess what-- they have a lot at stake to lie about it -- you know try to convince people otherwise.
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIiQkMbFoC0
  • willskillz, on 03/28/2008, -4/+2So lets see.... catching Saddam and executing him made everything better right?
    • Psythik, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Right.
    • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Napoleon was able to come back to power in a miraculous escape from exile, it is better Hussein is dead anyway.
  • FlimBlimmer, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3The man tortured millions and killed almost as many for three decades. I would have wiped my ass with his diary, stomped on his flower garden, and ***** on his cigars, if i were assigned to guard him.

    For those of you who feel sorry for him because he seemed to carry himself with dignity in his last months, ***** you.
    • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1Do you have any reason for believing all that, beyond the fact that the teevee told you to?
      • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Do you have any reason for NOT believing it.

        There are thousands of photographs of the atrocities Saddam's Fedayeen committed against the Kurds and Shias, what more proof do you useful idiots need?

  • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Do people forget we offered Saddam exile with a billion dollars to take with him to spare invasion of Iraq? The asshole turned it down. How anyone can call him a hero of his people is beyond me.
  • realdeal99, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5Wow! Digg users defending a monster and comparing him with our President... No surprise I guess.
  • doughboy334, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1This man murdered thousands of dissidents during his rule. ***** him
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