I pity the fool who tries to deny my right to a fair trial!
Facing execution by hanging, a feisty Saddam Hussein “scuffled” with guards at his trial and pleaded “innocent” to charges of murder and mayhem, although there’s no such plea. But Saddam has more important things on his mind, I’m sure.
Probably traumatized by years of raping, torturing, and killing his subjects, violating the inconvenient and much-too-annoying Geneva Convention, feisty Saddam indicated that a hands-off-me-scumbags approach was best:
The confrontation then became physical. When a break was called, Saddam stood, smiling, and asked to step out of the room. When two guards tried to grab his arms to escort him out, he angrily shook them off…They tried to grab him again, and Saddam struggled to free himself. Saddam and the guards shoved each other and yelled for about a minute.
It ended with Saddam getting his way, and he was allowed to walk independently, with the two guards behind him, out of the room for the break. (Source)
Smile, and the whole world smiles with you, Saddy.
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Update: (10/21): Somebody killed Saddam’s co-defendant’s lawyer.
he got his way? why don’t they put him in a jumpsuit and shackles? he is a mass murderer after all.
Comment by Chris — 10.19.05 @ 10:24 am
La Shawn:
Europhiles are already America-bashing about the Saddam trial.
“How dare these uncivilized people allow the Death Penalty - like the Americans?” etc,
These Europhiles have no respect for anyone else’s opinion - they believe Americans and Iraquis are just too stupid to decide for themselves what kind of justice they want.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 10.19.05 @ 10:35 am
Saddam Hussein Trial Set To Begin
Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Viewers will be tuning in around the globe on Wednesday as former Iraqi dictat
Trackback by Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — 10.19.05 @ 11:03 am
Saddam’s swagger in the courtroom sends important signals to his followers.
The gallows, however will send a far more powerful message throughout the Arab world.
He was dug out of a hole. Now he sits in a cage. Soon, he will be both a martyr and reviled. But, ultimately, he will be just a memory.
Comment by Heliotrope — 10.19.05 @ 11:27 am
where’s Osama?
Comment by Ken American — 10.19.05 @ 11:53 am
you have to figure that years of acting and being treated as though he was above the law and that no one could or would ever tell him what to do (without severe consequence, anyway) have taken left deep, permanent marks on his soul.
the madness in which he thrived will not fade away. his grandiose hallucinations of himself may forever exist in his head.
as long as he walks back to a jail cell at the end of each day, i don’t care if he feels like he’s gotten his way because he walked out alone during a break.
Comment by Lores Rizkalla — 10.19.05 @ 12:23 pm
This is my kind of justice: that evil people like him be tortured within an inch of their lives, and/or they are faced with their greatest fears, over and over again. Let him get a dose of his own medicine.
Comment by mj — 10.19.05 @ 12:40 pm
Hmm…can’t send this vulgar comment to your boss because according to your IP address, you’re at a residence. Probably unemployed. And lonely. And a loser. Too bad. - Admin
Comment by Madmatt — 10.19.05 @ 12:45 pm
Saddam Pleads Not Guilty
Saddam’s trial started in Baghdad this morning. Again, he questioned the validity of the court proceedings and then pleaded not guilty to the charged brought before him today.
Saddam, and seven other defendants, are first being charged with k…
Trackback by Right Voices — 10.19.05 @ 1:39 pm
La Shawn,
I sure hope you plan on writing a book that includes those dirty and inappropriate comments! Those of us with filthy minds are being deprived here!
Comment by Mike M. — 10.19.05 @ 2:05 pm
I can’t believe this nitwit has the audacity to plead not guilty. I’d like to know what he’s smoking and get me some of that! OK, so he thinks he’s not guilty. Let’s say he didn’t directly order the murder, torture and slaughter of thousands people. He’s at least guilty of knowing about them, allowing them to continue, and then covering up evidence of their existence.
Survey says: Guilty. Bring on the firing squad!
Comment by Mike M. — 10.19.05 @ 2:08 pm
He is a dreamer and like all bad tyrants he is now walking dead.The only problem is that he doesn’t even know it
Comment by Idiongo Udoh — 10.19.05 @ 9:08 pm
They need that little Abu Graib gal to go over and “dog leash” him back to his cell!
(talk about an ultimate humiliation)
Comment by Dave in AZ — 10.19.05 @ 10:26 pm
La Shawn:
I was so psyched up for Saddam’s trial - one of my best friends here is an Iraqui Kurd surgeon. He has been waiting for this since 1974, when he escaped from Iraq.
But it was not to be - they delayed his trial to the end of November. I can’t wait.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 10.19.05 @ 11:27 pm
Amazing parallels between Saddam and Herman Goering. Both swaggered into court, and both were so deluded as to think they still had power. At one point Goering demanded his golden riding crop back, stating that it was his symbol of authority. One of the amused GIs in his guard detail had to tell him, “You have no authority.”
There is a difference, however. My fervent hope is that Saddam leaves this world at the end of a rope, rather than escaping his just fate as Goering did by swallowing poison.
Comment by redbeard — 10.20.05 @ 8:20 am
Feisty Mass Murdering Dictator
LaShawn Barber points out Saddam’s utter feistiness at his trial for the 1982 Dujail massacre (one of dozens of possible trials to come) when he pulls a ‘get your dirty mitts offa me…do you know who I am?!’ to the guards.
Trackback by Feisty Republican Whore — 10.20.05 @ 7:58 pm
Saddam is as defiant as ever
It wasn’t unexpected, of course. His trial took place today, though disappointingly enough, it appears to have now been ajourned until November 20.
Trackback by Tel-Chai Nation — 10.21.05 @ 6:43 am
Of course, he was the dictator for years and took people’s lives with a grain of salt. No wonder this egocentric madman does not recognize a court judge. Thing is, his world no longer exists. Thank the Lord.
Comment by RepJ — 10.21.05 @ 10:13 am
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Trackback by Conservative Outpost — 10.21.05 @ 10:48 am
I hope this doesn’t turn out to be just a show trial for propaganda purposes, because Iraq is a tinderbox. We already have voter fraud allegations in the Sunni areas, and I fear the tipping point towards a civil war is nigh.
http://www.thecobraslair.com/images/SADDAM-ON-TRIAL-NATIONAL.gif
–Cobra
Comment by Cobra — 10.21.05 @ 4:37 pm
Well Cobra, the sooner they execute him the sooner we can get on with the other bad boys.
As for voter fraud, we’ve seen plenty of that in various S. American countries, Africa, Europe and even in the States. What else is new?
Ciao
Comment by Andy — 10.21.05 @ 4:49 pm
I agree that it seems a little silly to bend to the wishes of this criminal. Too bad the guards didn’t taser his meglomaniacal butt and drag him back to his cell.
As to how this murderous bastard heads to the afterlife, it matters not to me. At the end of a rope or by cyanide…it will send a signal to the former members of his party…that the party’s over. Time to get on with things.
See you on the high ground!
MajorDad1984
Comment by MajorDad1984 — 10.23.05 @ 9:05 am
Saddam, Bush, at one time the boys got along now saddam is in prison and Bush isn’t?
after all Bush his a Plan of Genocide for us here in the usa, its called Mexico!
Free or shot Saddam put Bush in the courtroom before he kills us all.
Comment by Fred Dawes — 10.25.05 @ 3:08 am