I bet Bush looked like a painter after he watched video of Saddam's brothers head being ripped off

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Film_shows_Saddam_s_brother_beheaded.html?siteSect=143&sid=7430908&cKey=1168872948000

Film shows Saddam's brother beheaded

By Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two of Saddam Hussein's aides were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said.

But despite its efforts to avoid the uproar that marred the execution of the former president two weeks ago, news that the noose ripped the head from Saddam's cancer-stricken half-brother as he plunged from the gallows appalled international critics of the process and fuelled fury among Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs.

On the defensive after Shi'ite sectarian taunts were heard in illicit film of Saddam's execution, a spokesman for the Shi'ite-led government insisted there was "no violation of procedure" during the executions of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and former judge Awad Hamed al-Bander.

But defence lawyers and politicians from the once dominant Sunni Arab minority expressed anger at the fate of Barzan, Saddam's once feared intelligence chief, and there was also scepticism and condemnation of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated leadership across the mostly Sunni-ruled Arab world.

Government officials showed journalists film of the two men standing side by side in orange jumpsuits on the scaffold, looking fearful before they were hooded and the nooses placed around their necks. There was no disturbance in the execution chamber -- apparently the same one where Saddam died on December 30.

[soothsayer]

1. They said Saddam looked fearful---until the video came out.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Do you mean....

white paint? ;)

[NNN0LHI]

3. Yep

:rofl:

[Missy M]

4. It is all so disturbing....

Bush has caused nothing but death and violence. He is the executioner, even though he is not there putting the noose around the necks or planting the bombs. He has others doing all his dirty work.

[MADem]

5. ORANGE jumpsuits??? Jesus, what are they, IDIOTS????

The orange jumpsuit is the symbol of the Gitmo detainee....the AQ guys use it as a "reverse psychology" routine on the people they've beheaded in the past, but it also has a martyr's connotation in the right context. To the Sunnis who have been victimized by this sectarian shit, that is the connotation it will take on.

The jumpsuit would have been enough, but tearing the head off a guy with cancer suggests none of Allah's merciful attitude, it suggests deliberate disrespect (body mutilation is a bad thing; it's why you see it cropping up over that way--it's a desire to deliberately appall people) and it's almost as though they sort of WANT to rile their own crowd with some "good" revenge.

I think they have taken it too far, though. They're coming across like belligerent assholes who don't know when to quit it.

[IntravenousDemilo]

6. Looked like a painter...?

This is an idiom I'm not familiar with.