Saddam hanged

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It's already Saturday in Iraq, btw.

 

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This will not end well.

 

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I wanna watch it. Is there an Internet connection or something? Man, that should be international live TV. Wanna make a point to the world, this is it. Man, I wish I could see that shit.

 

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I am not that much of a sadist.

There was a discussion about whether clips would be aired on All Things Considered this afternoon. Former network news producer said the evening newscasts would not touch it, but he could see a cable news channel airing it latenight, given that the footage, if ever leaked out, gets put on YouTube in 10 minutes or less.

I almost guarantee that Fox News will be the first -- and possibly the only -- one to air it.

 

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AP, according to the CBS affiliate here, is reporting Saddam will be executed at 9 p.m. tonight. Don't know if that's EST or CST.

 

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And if Bush and his boys hadn't fucked the whole deal up, Saddam could have been dead three years ago. In fact, if Daddy Bush hadn't fucked up HIS end of it, Saddam could have been dead FIFTEEN years ago. Good work, fuckups.

 

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But Daddy listened to the UN. Oh well...

 

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We had enough intelligence to take him out in air strikes in 1991, I'm sure.

 

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That wasn't the objective. Remember?

 

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Neither was setting up Saddam to slaughter tens of thousands of Shiites.

 

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And how would today be any different?
We'd be in the 15th year of getting shot at by both sides.

 

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Yeah, what a bad move that was :