Report - About An Hour Until Judgment Time For Saddam

We are starting to get reports that Saddam Hussein has about an hour before he will be executed for crimes against humanity.

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982.

We are finally starting to see some people report what we have been saying all along at Webloggin. Saddam Hussein, The Butcher of Baghdad, is responsible for the deaths of millions - not just the old crimes in the Anbar province that the left likes to make believe is his last crime against humanity. Crimes that surely happened right up until we chased him down a spider hole.

We have heard many times that Saddam’s Iraq was a relatively peaceful secular society. It was better than life now under the war torn nation ushered in by the United States. Unfortunately that is the short sighted rhetoric of apologist anti-American lefties who simply hate George Bush. This was one of many themes that eeked its way out as November 7th, 2006 neared.

But now people are starting to speak out. The information embargo has been lifted now that the Democrats can lay off the manufactured opposition - all of a sudden they have a stake in Iraq. It’s too bad they didn’t see it that way when they pulled the rug out from under the mission almost immediately after they voted to support it.

Nonetheless we are starting to see the press report some of the facts behinds Saddam’s crimes.

In a Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called Saddam’s execution “God’s gift to Iraqis.”

“Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves,” said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as SCIRI, a dominant party in al-Maliki’s coalition. “Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam.” - Brietbart

But it’s hard to imagine the death penalty existing anywhere for any crime and not for Saddam Hussein — a man who, with the possible exception of Kim Jong Il, has more blood on his hands than anyone else alive. Should the world see his end in the coming days, the justice will be imperfect. But it will still be justice. - Washington Post

An Iraqi appeals court upheld Saddam’s death sentence Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims who were detained after a 1982 attempt to assassinate him in the northern city of Dujail. The court said the hanging should take place within 30 days.

Saddam also was in the midst of a second trial, charged with genocide and other crimes for a 1987-88 military crackdown that killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq. Experts said his execution would probably not stop the trial from continuing for his co-defendants.

In a Friday sermon, a mosque preacher in the Shiite holy city of Najaf called Saddam’s execution “God’s gift to Iraqis.”

“Oh, God, you know what Saddam has done! He killed millions of Iraqis in prisons, in wars with neighboring countries and he is responsible for mass graves,” said Sheik Sadralddin al-Qubanji, a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as SCIRI, a dominant party in al-Maliki’s coalition. “Oh God, we ask you to take revenge on Saddam.” - The AP

Imagine what unspeakable horrors the survivors of Saddam Hussein had to live though. We can safely surmise that for each of the millions killed their were countless raped, maimed, starved, tortured, imprisoned and shattered. Men, women and children whose lives were destroyed by a tyrannical regime as the world watched in silence.

Yet the idiots at the New York Times still don’t seem to get it. Their reporting stops short at around 10,00 dead in 1982. I’m getting sick of these morons who simply can’t bring themselves to admit that Saddam Hussein was a ruthless murdering dictator. A man who killed an estimated 1 to 2 million people over a 25 year span. He was a man who “relocated” babies to mass graves along with their families. So the New York Times should be called to the mat with useless statistics that don’t even begin to touch the surface of Saddam’s crimes.

Mr. Hussein, a Sunni Muslim who ruled Iraq for 30 years until the American-led invasion that toppled him nearly four years ago, was given the death penalty for his part in the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys in 1982, but he still stands charged with responsibility for killing tens of thousands more of his own citizens.

Saddam’s time has come. Rather than use it as a springboard for protests against the death penalty or as an event to blame on the United States I hope people understand the real lessons here. The days of tyrannical dictators are numbered. The United States, a nation vilified by many here an abroad can stand with its head held high knowing that justice for millions came with our help. This should have happened long ago, but for the millions of people who felt the wrath of Saddam Hussein it is better late than never.

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