Saddamnoose

One thing that I noticed that is wrong with this picture is the time on the image. It says it is 11:52:37. I was on the web when the hanging was supposed to be taking place because I wanted to see the flashes from the AP. "Saddam hanged/executed."

I realize its a minor thing, but it was supposed to happen right before 6 AM Baghdad time. That would be 10PM EST. The time indicated in the photograph if accurate means that the hanging took place somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, because that is the appropriate time zone. Hey maybe its was a bad camera, but you would think that something so dramatic, the thing that is the focus of US history for the past 5 years, that there would be some attention to details, or is something fishy going on.

Allow me to comment on this hanging. We all can imagine the choking and pain and suffocation that would occur in a hanging. Its ugly. But you know, the USA is supposed to be about no cruel and unusual punishment. If an execution takes place that goes awry as one did in Florida recently, people get upset.

Here we have the USA in the center of a rebuilding scheme in Iraq and the whole beginning to the new year is based on a lynching. Now how in the hell is this going to settle things? What the hell kind of a foundation of stability can one foresee that is based on a lynching? Oh yea, this is really going to help world peace.

EU opposes death penalty against Saddam Hussein