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| quote: | Originally posted by Jer.
If memory serves, he taunted them back.
He died bravely, but there is no excuse for anyone to belittle another man (however cruel) only moments before his death. |
AMEN to that!!
Hussein execution. Can you feel the evil?
I don't want to admit that I actually watched the Saddam Hussein execution video on You tube. I watched it yesterday and I have many thoughts on this. I took a deep breath and watched this video shot from someone's cellphone that was there to witness the execution.
While reading this blog keep in mind I am NOT a Saddam supporter.
If you have watched any of the news channels, you have undoubtedly seen this blury, dark video. You see Saddam being led to the gallows by two cowards with their faces covered in something like a black ski mask. The noose is securely and tightly fastened around his neck. Men are screaming and taunting him in Arabic, and he is taunting them back, making fun of them screaming "Muqtada Muqtada Muqtada". He tells them they are not brave Arab men. They tell him he is going straight to hell. At this point I am disgusted by two things. The first being that you can see camera flashes, people were allowed to have cellphones there and the taunting that was going on while he died. It all becomes one circus freakshow.
I have never witnessed anyone die in real life, be it in person or on a video.
The taunting continues, and with no time to waste the trap door opens you hear a loud bang and he is gone. People are saying various things loudly in Arabic. The person with the cellphone seems to be moving around a lot and then about a minute later he seems to be in the underground area where Saddam is hanging. A closeup of his face, the noose around his neck and then shot from a different angle where you can see that his neck broke as his head is turned at an unnatural angle. The video stops and I feel like I am going to pass out because I just watched something totally disgusting, dispicable and inhumane.
After my disgust passes I then feel spooked out. Maybe because this video was so dark and everyone was dressed in dark colors, but I believe that I just witnessed evil/hell on earth when I watched this video. It is like a dark nightmare where there is no turning back. Evil in the fact that Saddam is there in this dark gallow and even more evil when you realize the cowards who are taunting him do not realize they are going to the same place he is going.....Hell. I am not a Bible thumper, however, there is a passage in the Bible that describes what hell is like. One thing about the passage is how there are tortured souls, a lot of confusion, people screaming and taunting. This video fits the visual I have in my mind very well!
Yes, Saddam should have been killed. However, someone's death is never a time for rejoicing, partying, dancing around a dead body, or for a public spectacle to be made about it.
So I leave you with a bit of the lyrics from a song called "A Bad Dream" by Keane..the lyrics are very fitting:
I wake up, it's a bad dream,
No one on my side,
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
to be fighting,
guess I'm not the fighting kind.
Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate.
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend
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I support bacteria because it is the only culture some people have.
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I guess it works better for Vivid than me lol.
