Saddam Hussein is dead

December 29, 2006 7:18 PM

Arabic language media outlets report Saddam Hussein is dead -- executed by hanging for killings committed 25 years ago.
posted by tranquileye (15 comments total)

http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/12/29/the_waiting
posted by Eideteker at 7:19 PM on December 29, 2006

Which one's the double? Which will it be? Which???
posted by evilcolonel at 7:19 PM on December 29, 2006

I declare this to be the best Saddam Hussein is dead thread ever!
posted by 2sheets at 7:20 PM on December 29, 2006

Jesus Christ, there are times I really hate this website.
posted by keswick at 7:20 PM on December 29, 2006

Not only do you post a double but you don't even link to an actual story, just the front page of CNN... Could you fail this any harder?
posted by Rhomboid at 7:23 PM on December 29, 2006

3. Do I hear....7 before the night is done?
posted by Diskeater at 7:23 PM on December 29, 2006

I predict that this news will James Brown... what will the world make of a zombie Saddam being reported dead again in four days time?
posted by Chunder at 7:23 PM on December 29, 2006

Jesus Christ, there are times I really hate website country

FIFY.

We didn't fucking even have the courage to hang him ourselves. We broke it, then we told our flunkies in Iraq to hang him, as if that made anything any better.

Meanwhile, there's still a big fucking hole in NYC, the guy who dug that hole is still at large, and who knows how many fucking people have died over this lie?

If there is a god, or a fucking halfway decent imitation of a god, the next former leader of a country that we hand over to a puppet government to hang will be named George W. Bush.
posted by eriko at 7:24 PM on December 29, 2006

Watch your step to hell, Saddam.

(regardless of whether the war that brrought him in was just or not, I feel exactly zero sympathy for him)
posted by jonmc at 7:25 PM on December 29, 2006

Woo! Who?
posted by Balisong at 7:27 PM on December 29, 2006

What the fuck is wrong with some people here? You don't get points for being first out of the gate on a big news story. And even if you wanted to be first you could at least put a little effort into to.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:29 PM on December 29, 2006

Invade their countries - check.

Kill their leaders - check.

Convert them to Christianity - hmmm, lemme get back to you.

Is two out three Ann Coulter Commandments ok?
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:29 PM on December 29, 2006

I couldn't have picked a better day to install that deleted threads greasemonkey script. It's gonna come in handy to read all the amusing deletion reasons for the next 80 "Saddam is dead OMG!!!" posts.
posted by Effigy2000 at 7:30 PM on December 29, 2006

Again I say...

Yay! That'll fix it!
posted by The Deej at 7:30 PM on December 29, 2006

So wait, James Brown was hanged? And Saddam died at 93 and will lie in state in Washington DC. And Gerald Ford, the Godfather of Soul, has made his last appearance at the Apollo. Gottit.
posted by The Deej at 7:32 PM on December 29, 2006