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Sat Dec-30-06 10:58 PM
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Why did the executioners wear hoods?? |
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Were they Iraqis? Or were they Americans? Were they afraid of what Saddam's "friends" might do to them? Or would they want to be known as heroes because all of Iraq hated the evil dictator and would want everyone to see their faces? Something very strange about the masks??
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:00 PM
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1. To signify that justice is blind? |
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Or at least in this case, myopic.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:25 PM
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No other reason for the hoods.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:00 PM
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2. They don't want to be outed, like Valerie Plame. n/t |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:03 PM
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3. Executioners are almost always anonymous |
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In many states there are several people who are executioners at each execution with no one knowing for sure who the real one is. Electric chairs have several buttons only one of which works, the needle is actually three needles with only one being fatal, and firing squads have one gun with no bullets so potentially you don't know who did it.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:05 PM
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6. Right, especially in a volatile place like Iraq |
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Their faces are obscured to prevent retaliation on them and their families.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:21 PM
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16. Well, now, that one was easy. |
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I wonder why the question was even raised.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:03 PM
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:05 PM
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5. and their families would be targets too. |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:07 PM
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Edited on Sat Dec-30-06 11:07 PM by Kajsa
Thanks for adding that.
They would all be killed.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:07 PM
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8. Were they Iraqis or Americans? |
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Were they Shiites or Blackwater?
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:09 PM
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9. The whole thing is grossing me out. I just think it's barbaric. Good question, tho. |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:10 PM
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10. Because they are terrorists |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:26 PM
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24. ... and hired assassins. |
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And murderers. And killers. And they snuff out human life with impunity.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:10 PM
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11. I understood they were Iraqis |
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Edited on Sat Dec-30-06 11:10 PM by cwydro
and no doubt fear reprisals from the group that favored him in the past and still did.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:11 PM
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12. How do we know they were Iraqis..? |
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Do you believe they were Iraqis? I'm not so sure..
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:16 PM
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13. Wouldn't be supprised if it were * his'self... |
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Sadistic shit, I tell ya!
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:18 PM
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14. I'm sure he masturbates about being the executioner, but he wouldn't have the courage. |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:22 PM
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17. It would expalin a lot, like why he couldn't be in D.C. |
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Edited on Sat Dec-30-06 11:22 PM by madeline_con
for a STATE FUNERAL!!! He's such a jerk!
O.K. not the official funeral, but come on, DUH-bya, you idiot!
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:21 PM
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I don't believe it for a minute.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:40 PM
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28. Well, I don't know how well Saddam spoke English |
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but the little bit I heard said there was a guy there telling him what was going to happen etc....But again, I kind of tuned out and others certainly will know more than me.
I feel certain of one thing; that we were in control in every way.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:44 PM
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30. Sorry, I was just saying we can't believe everything we're told |
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about what's going on.
They have a puppet government, so the idea that Iraqis get to put the noose around Saddam's neck makes it seem like they're really in charge of something, when they have very little power.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:49 PM
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34. Well, I gotta agree with you there. |
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The whole thing is surreal to me.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:22 PM
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18. I will venture to say that they were special OPs dressed up |
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like Iraqis because I doubt if any real Iraqis would conduct an execution on a holy day. I didn't see the video and I will not watch it unless I walk into a place unknowingly where it's playing. However, other posters seem to share your suspicion.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:23 PM
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19. Historically, executioners have always worn hoods - |
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- check images, old artwork, etc. That way they are anonymous.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:24 PM
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20. Do they need sunglasses to cover their blue eyes? |
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I read that they wore sunglasses.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:31 PM
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26. And what about those white plastic chairs? n/t |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:38 PM
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27. I did not see sunglasses. |
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It was a dark video, though.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:44 PM
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29. I didn't watch the video and refuse to but read post # 3 on |
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Sun Dec-31-06 12:06 AM
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37. The sunglass remark was about the Nick Berg video. |
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Reread post #3 to see if you agree.
The hangmen wore ski masks in the video of the hanging of Saddam Hussein. I watched it because that is what our tax dollars pay for. I can't even count the times I protested this war, but so many people just ignore it -- as though it doesn't exist. They should watch the video.
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:45 PM
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31. That was the guys who killed Nick Berg. n/t |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:48 PM
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33. Okay sorry. I thought you were making comparisons to those guys |
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as being the same. So they weren't wearing sun glasses?
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Sun Dec-31-06 12:01 AM
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35. No, but I believe.... |
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it was Special Ops in both cases.
Look, if the Iraqi Security Forces supposedly couldn't be trained in all this time, why would anyone believe the U.S would turn Saddam over to them?
The "untrainable" thing makes them seem inept, but I think the real problem is the U.S. has trouble finding anyone who wants to team up with them.
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Sun Dec-31-06 12:02 AM
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36. I so agree with you. n/t |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:24 PM
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21. I have 1 question. Do Iraqis wear wedding rings? |
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Edited on Sat Dec-30-06 11:26 PM by in_cog_ni_to
If not, the man on the left side of the TV screen (Saddam's right) had on a wedding band....so he wouldn't be an Iraqi. If they do wear wedding bands, never-mind.:)
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:46 PM
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:25 PM
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23. It was just supposed to be a mugging. |
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Sat Dec-30-06 11:31 PM
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25. If you watched the History channel programs |
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you would see that in all of the pictures most of the people who performed the hangings wore hoods.
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Sun Dec-31-06 01:06 AM
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38. the executioner's face is always well-hidden |
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and it's a hard it's a hard it's a hard and it's a hard it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
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Sun Dec-31-06 02:46 AM
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Dylan lyrics always seem to fit in somewhere.
Peace
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Sun Dec-31-06 03:04 AM
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40. that's what cowards do |
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Sun Dec-31-06 03:08 AM
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41. It's a long tradition in many cultures. Goes back centuries. nt |
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