Comments on SADDAM ISSUES DEATH SENTENCE ON SHIITE WITH LAST WORDS...

Go to INFLAMMATORY RHETORICAdd a commentGo to SADDAM ISSUES DEATH SENTENCE ON SHIITE WITH LAST WORDS...

Ariala & Nautikos, You both may be right. If his last words were the name
Of his arch enemy, and he was only being sarcastic -- last words are rarely sarcastic are they? -- then they realized the danger among the Saddam-is-still-alive group of loyalists.

posted by kingmi on December 30, 2006 at 1:05 PM | link to this | reply

kingmi,
in the version I read, he said it mockingly, in response to one one of the executioners shouting 'Long live Muqtada al-Sadr'...

posted by Nautikos on December 30, 2006 at 7:17 AM | link to this | reply

Interesting...I imagine whatever he said must have been dangerous or they
probably wouldn't have cut it

posted by Ariala on December 30, 2006 at 5:54 AM | link to this | reply