How does one accidentally decapitate? Is anyone in the Iraqi government under any illusion that anyone sees the hangings of first Saddam and now Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar as anything but petty revenge killings? The unprofessionalism and the underlying thought processes that have led to it are chilling in their very incomprehensibility. Saddam Hussein is now a martyr and we're left with at least a vague feeling that those who hanged him were the brutes.
And now they botch up these hangings again. Decapitating a condemned prisoner and then flippantly describing it as a "mistake" is to my opinion disgusting. I cant claim to speak for anyone else but right now my overriding emotions constitute sympathy for the two hanged and revulsion towards those who killed them. By no account am I condoning the actions of these men in the past or the incident that led to their ultimate execution. But when something like this comes to pass how reassured can we be that tyranny, corruption and murder at the top levels of Iraqi government have been laid to rest? Can anyone tell me with any certanity that any of the people who killed Saddam Hussein were better than he was? (And this by the way is completely bypassing all my reservations about the death penalty in the first place).
What has ultimately been achieved? Can anyone convingly argue that these executions have not been counter productive? Who's the barbarian and who's the martyr?
The absolute hard headedness and stubbornness in the face of international criticism and local dissent displayed by the Iraqi administration are amazingly familiar. Who's with my theory that Nouri Maliki has been taking Bush lessons?
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well here we see ayeshea finally tackling an issue that normal people can relate, an issue that would not make you stop and think how the hell did she come up with that....
as for Nouri Maliki or even Hamed Karzai for that matter... isnt it pretty blatent that they are nothing but pawns of uncle sam???
After having extensively Googled many variations, I must admit that contrary to what I believed, accidental decapitation does not happen often.
It seems the horror movies got it wrong.
We were taught, back in the le halcyon days, to learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others.
However, it seems, that the designer generation of the new Millenium prefer to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again until Thy Kingdom Cum?
I guess its just a sign of the times...
bloody kadalay if you use one more inane, hacked-to-death cliche i will not-so-accidentally decapitate you!
and it's kadale, not kadalay. twat.
From Wikipedia:
"The Long Drop
This process, also known as the measured drop, was introduced in 1872 by William Marwood as a scientific advancement to the standard drop. Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's weight was used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken.
Prior to 1892, the drop was between four and ten feet (about one to three meters), depending on the weight of the body, and was calculated to deliver a force of 1,260 lbf (5,600 newtons or 572 kgf), which fractured the neck at either the 2nd and 3rd or 4th and 5th cervical vertebrae. However, this force resulted in some decapitations, such as the famous case of "Black Jack" Tom Ketchum in New Mexico in 1901. Between 1892 and 1913, the length of the drop was shortened to avoid decapitation. After 1913, other factors were also taken into account, and the force delivered was reduced to about 1,000 lbf (4,400 N or 450 kgf)."
So it does happen if one is not careful with their hanging. Iraqi executioners probably don't know their math right.
I quite miss Saddam, he was one of the greatest villains of our time. The go-to guy of our generation for evil doing, Bin Laden and Kim Jong be damned! He was no Hitler or Stalin but he was the best we had. RIP!
what about bush?
i feel he is not being given due credit for villain status by that last comment.
start posting again woman. i have so few portals to the outside world.
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