Two Saddam Aides Executed On Monday

   Saddam's two aides were executed at 3 a.m. wearing red-orange jumpsuit's.

    There was just one slight problem with one of the hangings. When     Barzan Ibrahim's body went through the trap door the poor guy lost his head, literally! His head was snapped off by the jerking of the rope which of course has angered many Sunnis.

From Yahoo News

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer       January 15,2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempt to close a chapter in Saddam Hussein's repressive quarter-century in power, by hanging two of his henchmen Monday, further enraged Sunnis when the former leader's half brother was decapitated on the gallows.

A government video of the execution screened for reporters showed Ibrahim's body passing the camera in a blur, after the decapitation. His body came to rest on its chest, with the head a few meters (yards) away, still covered in the black hood that was put there by one of his five masked executioners only moments before.       Entire Article

   I'm betting that the rope that was used was probably supplied by Halliburton. Is this another Bush 'surge' downward this time?

   I shouldn't be kidding about this but this story is just to damned funny! I'm wondering when the video will appear on the Internet?

 

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Gates Says 'Escalation' Is About Iran

   Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told NATO this morning that the surge is really all about saving face with Iran, not the protecting the 'young democracy' crap from Presidents Bush lying mouth!

   From The Guardian

Increased US military activity in the Gulf is aimed at Iran's "very negative" behaviour, the Bush administration said today.

The defense secretary, Robert Gates, told reporters that the decision to deploy a Patriot missile battalion and a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf in conjunction with a "surge" of troops in Iraq was designed to show Iran that the US was not "overcommitted" in Iraq.

Such remarks, following the prospect of "hot pursuit" raids into Iran as raised by George Bush in his televised address last week, have fueled speculation that the US is softening up the American public for possible action against Tehran.

   Our President might want to watch what he does before he really pisses off the middle east! But then, he and the Christian Right are trying to bring World War 3 into being anyway.

 

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