Tim Blair

A surgeon could operate on an unanaethasized Saddam to remove the offending bits then he can be hanged. Sounds reasonable to me.

The cancer was likely caused by Bushitler and his cowboy posse exposing the president of Iraq to radiation. Of course, it'll be blamed on "natural causes," but we already know that this gang will do anything (illegal war, kill civilians, lie about turkeys, WMDs) in order to get elected and make their friends at Hilburton rich.

P.S. They're too smart to use their wn radiation, so it probably came from Israel.

There. I tried to thrown in almost all the Indymedia stuff into just one short paragraph. Not bad on the fly, if I do say so myself...

He clearly swallowed his WMDs.

Depleted uranium, obviously.

Is it a painful condition?.

Actually, the cancer was inflicted by the same shadow government team who gave cancer to Jakob Rubinstein to stop him from identifying who ordered him to silence Oswald...

I'm waiting for the editorials saying a war wasn't needed to remove Saddam.

Gimme a C! Gimme an A! Gimme an N! Gimme a C! Gimme an E! Gimme an R!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CANCER!!!!!!!!

How sweet, Saddam goes from Evil Dictator to homeless tramp dieing from cancer.

All we need is some pictures of the tumour but guess who'd bitch about that?!

I was just thinking the same thing, hast.

When the tumor kills Saddam will it be hoisted on the shoulders of crowds of cheering Iraqis and carried around for a victory lap?

I'd like to think so!

Rotting from the inside - you rippa!

Someone should do him a favour and cut the lymph nodes out with a chainsaw.

Forget the chainsaw, Saddam has his very own plastic shredder to kill that tumor.

Feet first, of course.

Have you guys seen the picture of Saddam being held down, right after they pulled him out of his hole? I'm kind of surprised it hasn't gotten more play in the rightwingneoconkillbloggersphere. He's got a little blood on his teeth and he's obviously not very comfortable. Poor baby!

Me too, hast. Of course, unless daddy's little boys were stricken with cancer then I don't think it would've been much of an improvement. I doubt the folks who'd make the argument would think it through that far.

"Let’s hope he lives long enough to be killed."

Wow, I'm taken aback. You know, that's a pretty malicious thing to say about anyone, even someone as unpleasant as Saddam Hussein. With comments like that, it's clear you're no better than the "terrorists" you purport to hate.

But your anger is understandable. Having lost the political war to the Left on almost every domestic front, to compensate, you take out your frustrations on foreign tinpot dictators. You're too chickensh*t to face the music in your own country.

And to think that US soldiers are fighting and dying so f*cking scumbags like you can vent your nasty little spleen.

Truly, it isn't third-rate dictators like Saddam Hussein that pose a threat to the West. It's moral primitives such as yourself.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Joey, you crack me up. Lost on the domestic front, eh? We lost to people who can't bring themselves to say anything but "raise taxes" as the solution to problems. Come on, man, wake up and smell the coffee. The left is self-destructing on all fronts, and their only solution is to run further left. See you in 08.

it's LUNCHBOY!

I gotta believe that "Joseph" is sarcasm, what with the French name. No way anyone is actually that stupid (see my earlier "Indymedia Moron" post for "Joseph's" inspiration).

I dunno, but we'll see, I guess...my humor detector's usually in pretty good shape. If it's not real, he does a darn good impersonation of the moral indignation of lefty loonies.

Sept 4, 2000

Saddam stricken with lymph cancer

So it was only a few more years till we learned how Qusay or Uday would choose with regard to interacting or collaborating with Al Qaeda & other terrorists, or Qusay or Uday would have proceeded with regard to WMD programs.

But the Carnegie Endowment says we don’t have EVIDENCE that Saddam would, or that Qusay or Uday would have done any bad stuff!

Never mind their established past patterns of behavior. Repeat perp child molesters should hire the Carnegie Endowment to write reports defending them.

Just because the Carnegie Endowment wants the USA to have built its national security on the pulverized premiss of a presumption of innocence for Saddam, Qusay, or Uday, doesn’t mean that it would be prudent or wise for the USA to do so. Also: the USA does not build its national security on the propagandistic premiss of a presumption of guilt for the USA such that the USA lacks the moral authority to swat a fly. That, too, may send the Carnegie Endowment into a flying plastic turkey trajectory of high dudgeon.

Poor Joseph seems extremely confused. Apparently wishing Saddam dead (I note that you name only Saddam and no other women, children, or elderly) you are now as bad as the terrorists who blow up the unsuspecting. Hmmm.

Then he purports that the Left has taken over the governing of your country. I'm afraid I haven't followed Australian politics very closely, but I had no idea that leadership had changed. I should pay more attention.

Then he goes on to say that US soldiers are fighting and dying for you. Well, I suppose technically that is true. Yet he fails to mention the fact that Australian soldiers are over there too. I wonder why? Did you guys pull your people out when I wasn't looking? How about the Italians, Polish, British...

Joseph - I believe a little more research is necessary on your part before you start your next diatribe. m'kay?

Twinks never research.

Treacher, I blogged on it this morning on Mangled Thoughts under the heading. Giant Rodent Wrestled , referring to the chaps as rodent exterminators with large furry mutant on their hands.

On the upside, the newfound love of soldiers and their well-being on the left could be seen as an encouraging sign, no? And losing on the domestic front? I thought deploring Howard's brutal right wing governance was what aussie leftistas killed off their afternoons with?

Regards, Döbeln

-Stabil som fan!

PS.
Oh, and wishing death upon scum like Saddam is an act of the purest possible humanitarianism.
DS.

All of those people in Iraq are also extremely malicious in regards to their unpleasant former president, and I find that quite distasteful, indeed! I don't see why any Coalition troops should have had to fight and die for those f*cking scumbags!

Sitting here at home in front of my computer, sipping wine and nibbling cheese, it seems obvious to me that the proper and moral course of action here is to forgive, and most importantly, forget those . . . unpleasant things like rape rooms and kiddie prisons and torture chambers and dismemberments and plastic shredders and mass graves. It's not nearly so unbearable as living under a Republican president, let me tell you that!

It's a good thing that I'm not ruled by anger like you guys, which is why I'm going to vote for that charming and calm Howard Dean fellow.

"I'm waiting for the editorials saying a war wasn't needed to remove Saddam."

You're not far off. On the news right now is a report from the Carnegie Foundation saying that it was not necessary to go to war against Iraq.
No evidence of WMDs, no links to terrorism, by all accounts just your average dictator.

The death penalty has something to do with the place accorded to the voice of the victim, which is absent.

That's why you don't want Saddam to die before he's executed. It preserves a place.

Where in the hell do you get a name like Joe de Bonehole? Oh, that's Joe de Bonald. Nevermind.

I too am left somewhat cold by Tim's post.

Celebrating in another's death or disease is not a becoming thing.

I hope that Saddam Hussein will be able to stand trial. I hope he will not be given the death penalty, but be forced to ends his days a convict. If, however, medical reasons intervene then we must follow our own laws. To tear them up, even in the case of a Saddam Hussein, only lessens us.

"But your anger is understandable. Having lost the political war to the Left on almost every domestic front..."

Can you say Prime
Minister Latham? Can you say President Dean?
I didn't think you could. Ba-bye

"Celebrating in another's death or disease is not a becoming thing."

That is indeed the rule. However, as with all rules, there are healthy exceptions. Let me name a few:

Adolf H.
Tim Mc Fertilizer
Uncle Joe

We're better off because these people are dead and buried - and I see nothing wrong with celebrating that fact. The same goes for Saddam Hussein.

I'll repeat the line from when Arafat was suspected of having stomach cancer - "poor cancer."

I remember learning of dead Qusay & Uday & of their corpses riddled with bullets. I remember the photographs, for which they’d been fixed up enough to look recognizable.

How sweet it was.
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
And they never looked better in their lives!

But seriously? If I see a headline “SADDAM HUNG,” I will rage & holler, curse message & messenger alike, & with all my heart, soul, spirit, mind, & ka, will I thunder: “That’s ‘HANGED,’ not ‘HUNG’!!!”

Lewis Maskell and Joseph de Bonald leave me bewildered:

So, deposing a dictator by force is wrong.
Sanctioning his country (b/c of the collateral damage suffered by his people) is wrong.
Assassination, of course, is wrong.

And now, wishing that they were dead is wrong?

Is there anything that can be done about people like Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Kim Jong-il? Besides wringing one's hands and gnashing one's teeth, that is?

It could be "hung". I didn't see that part of the physical.

"You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
It's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer"

Pink Floyd, 'Dogs'

Mheh.

As in “The jury was hung on whether the defendant should be hanged.” Who knows what the supinely descriptivist Microsoft dictionary will claim, but a good dictionary will back this up.

Dean:

"Is there anything that can be done about people like Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Kim Jong-il?"

Well, sure. There's wringing one's hands and declaiming loudly about how the U.S. supported them, therefore it's America's fault.

This seems to be the single tactic employed by the Loony Left on these sorts of occasions.

Hey, Joseph, you don't sound like the happy victor in the culture wars that you claim to be.

Grow up. Stop insulting people from the safety of your den. If you want to talk tough, do it face to face, and we'll see who's chickenshit.

Love and kisses.

Joseph and Lewis- Dude, Tim's post wasn't celebrating that Saddam had cancer! He said that he hopes Saddam survives long enough to be sentenced- or am I misinterpreting the "let's hope he lives long enough to be killed" bit? He didn't gleefully say, "I couldn't think of someone more deserving to have cancer, yay!", as I heard several of my liberal classmates remark about Reagan back when news of his Alzheimer's first came out.

Dean. Dude!! I don't remember the lefties wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth. That would be an improvement from the behavior I seem to remember. Do you by any chance have a url or a source?

;->=

Carl in N.H, the worst of the matter is the Left screams about how the US supported dictators (Pinochet! Pinochet!) but thinks a dicator that turns on the US should get a free pass. I'm not sure if even they believe the twisted logic. If we made the monster we have the duty to unmake the monster.

Sure he's a bastard just like a hundred other dictators in the UN but hopefully they'll all take note fo what we did to Saddam and reform their ways. Its even better that the US and allies don't find WMD or connections to Al Queda, that way the other rat-bastards out there don't think they can hide their WMD or terrorist connections really, really well, and skate by. Instead the message is there is no hiding, there is noone who can protect you, if you don't play nice you may be whacked. Might as well turn over the WMD now and save your butt.

The left will never understand the lesson but its so clear that even Quadaffi understood.

Celebrating in another's death or disease is not a becoming thing.

Thankfully, my moral compass is not so broken that I cannot take delight or reassurance in the firm and just end to the life of a man who killed so many. Wishing the death penalty upon Saddam is a result of the destruction of so much innocent life at his hands. To fail to distinguish between the life of a killer and his victim is an insult to the life of the victim. Saddam has forsaken any right to compassion, and to give yours away so freely to a beast such as he cheapens you.