U.S.: Iraqis responsible for Saddam hanging ('We would have done it differently,' General Caldwell )

[Kadie]

U.S.: Iraqis responsible for Saddam hanging
'We would have done it differently,' General Caldwell says


Updated: 3:26 a.m. PT Jan 3, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior U.S. general said on Wednesday U.S. forces left all security measures at Saddam Hussein’s execution, including searching witnesses for mobile phones, to Iraqi authorities.

An unofficial video of the hanging, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, showed Shiite officials taunting Saddam just before he was hanged, sparking outrage among his fellow Sunni Arabs as well as concern among moderate Shiites and Kurds.

Asked at a news conference in Baghdad on Wednesday about criticism of the hanging, U.S. military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said: “It was not our decision as to what occurred but we would have done it differently.”

“We had absolutely nothing to do with the facility where the execution took place,” Caldwell said, adding that U.S. forces flew Saddam to the prison where the execution took place at dawn and then withdrew from the building.

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[Robbien]

1. Lies on top of lies on top of lies

You know it is bad when awful ol' Saddam is the most honorable person during this whole lynching situation.

[Marie26]

2. So they dumped him & drove off?

Sounds more like a Mafia hit than a judicial proceeding.

[lebkuchen]

3. Bush hasn´t given Maliki control of the Iraqi forces yet, has he?

We are then expected to believe that the Iraqis had control over Saddam´s hanging? Not a chance. That was a US operation all the way, imo.

"Botched" is a Bush trademark.