Officials: Bush upset by Hussein hanging video

[BlueStater]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush was upset after watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution, comparing it to how he felt after seeing the photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, White House officials said Wednesday.

Dark, grainy video -- apparently recorded on a cell phone -- of Hussein's December 30 hanging was leaked to the media soon after the execution.

In the video, taunts from Shiites can be heard moments before Hussein, a Sunni, is hanged.

After Hussein offers prayers, the guards shout praise for Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric whose father is believed to have been murdered by Hussein's regime.

They chant, "Muqtada! Muqtada! Muqtada!"

Hussein smiles. "Is this how you show your bravery as men?" he asks.

"Straight to hell," someone shouts back at him.

"Is this the bravery of Arabs?" Hussein asks.

A sole voice is heard trying to silence the taunts.

"Please, I am begging you not to," the unknown man says. "The man is being executed."

Two guards present at the hanging have been detained and questioned in connection with the taping, Iraqi officials have said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/10/bush.hussein/index.html

Yeah fucking right. He probably jerked off to it.

[soothsayer]

1. oh, finally watched it, did he?

[Bucky]

11. Don't make fun... it took him this long to find & operate YouTube among all the different internets

[ixion]

21. he probably had trouble find it in The Google

:eyes:

[NYC Liberal]

34. LMAO

:rofl:

He finally took a break from looking at his own house on Google Maps.

[saigon68]

41. TFB= Too Fucking Bad I guess this must have upset him too

[babylonsister]

2. Hey, I thought he hadn't/wasn't going to watch it. His handlers are

trying to make people believe he has compassion, a heart. I have severe doubts myself.

[Name removed]

3. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[thereismore]

4. He should be. That's what happens to mass murderers. nt

[aquart]

5. He wishes it were in HD?

Yeah, the video quality on those cell phones sucks. Shoulda auctioned the rights to FOX.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I would have imagined * to be desensitized from the executions

he made happen while governor of Texas. (If you've seen one, you've seen'em all.)

[Bucky]

13. What makes you think he ever saw any of the effects of the policies he put in?

The only effect he ever saw was when all those millionaires started putting more money into his campaign.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. The only person he pardoned...

Was his doppelganger, Henry Lee Lucas.

Serial killers, no matter their station, obviously need to stick together.

[calimary]

25. And he certainly didn't hesitate to taunt some of them.

I'll believe this as soon as I become convinced that he wants to change party affiliation. Probably used it instead of his Viagra for several nights. Don't be fooled. He LOVES this stuff. He was the Grand High Executioner as Texas governor, and reveled in it. NOW he starts becoming hesitant and bothered by it? BULLSHIT. This was his kind of execution - a rootin' tootin' Wild West-style lynching where an unruly, vengeful mob was in charge, and there was no solemnity and proper procedure and decorum went straight out the window. This was the culmination of the "Wanted, Dead 'r Alive" swagger and strut that he sashayed around against Osama bin Laden with just a few miserable years ago. Extremely uncharacteristic of him to come around and be disturbed by this. It was ABSOLUTELY what he wanted - his ultimate wet dream to see Saddam swinging from a rope. This White House-issued fairy story is sheer BULLSHIT.

[Jimbo S]

42. Didn't he mock/taunt that one woman

that was executed back in 1998. Forget her name, but I remember it being in the news.

[Bruce McAuley]

7. Getting too close to home maybe...

If George was REALLY upset by the video, and I'll take that with a grain of skepticism, then it can only be a sense of what might be in his own future when and if all the sh!t he's done comes home to roost.

Bruce

[Elidor]

8. I came in here to say that

But you beat me to it.

[TheWatcher]

9. This should go in the National Archives as the most pathetic example

of Orwellian Propaganda EVER.

The only reason he is disappointed is because he didn't achieve an orgasm while watching it.

This country......

I just don't have anything left to say. There are no words.

[LiberalFighter]

19. He needed to watch the video first and then do the Virgil Goode method

Masturbating with his head up his ass.

(This reference from Jon Stewart's comment about the Koran issue last nite)

[AlinPA]

10. Yeah, just like he is upset over the deaths of our soldiers. What a fake. He and Rove

need to have some American soldiers die every day to remind everyone that there is a war and he is the "commander in chief". Our dying soldiers were used by that slime to win his last election.

[Kurovski]

12. The images weren't clear enough for Mr. Morbid McFreak.

"Dark, grainy video..."

[PlanetBev]

14. He's just upset that he couldn't be there in person

He wished he could have taunted Saddam the same way he taunted Karla Faye Tucker, "Oh, pleeease don't kill me!"

[BushOut06]

16. Maybe he ran out of hand lubricant

I know I hate it when I run out of lotion.

[Aviation Pro]

17. Little Monkey is disturbed and upset because....

...I'm sorry I think everyone knows the reason why.

[SoCalDem]

18. He's only "upset" because he got a bit too excited watching it

and peed on his favorite chair again..(the one he pissed on while watching the election returns)

[HuffleClaw]

20. bullshit

why do they even try such crap? i can't imagine even a single freeper believing this one.

[rodeodance]

22. so, he got enough grief and his advisors gave him permission

to see it and comment on it.

too little too late

[Magleetis]

23. Who

comes up with this BS? Yeah right, Mr Evil starts a war, kills thousands and then we are supposed to believe this crap. Our government and the media have no credibility.

[kskiska]

24. He was waiting for the Letterbox Edition.

[stillcool]

26. Wonder how he felt about..

the pictures from Fallujah? What a bunch of horseshit...he's probably hungover...

[BigNeeravT]

27. Like fuck he is!

He probably jerked off to it, nad had to call Pickles to wash his white-stained boxers.

[bamacrat]

28. Yeah, upset he wasn't there... or was he....

the executors wore hoods.

[mvd]

29. Maybe he was for a second, because he has no..

clue about what war is like. But I'm sure he'll shrug it off and maybe even make fun of it in private.

[Demeter]

30. Bush Is Upset That He Won't Get Royalties and Residuals

He wanted to corner the market on snuff video.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. Sooo... TAPING a hanging is a worse crime than HANGING

"Two guards present at the hanging have been detained and questioned in connection with the taping, Iraqi officials have said."

...Hmmmmmmmmm... :shrug:

[NastyRiffraff]

32. How he felt after the Abu Ghraib pictures...

President Bush was upset after watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution, comparing it to how he felt after seeing the photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, White House officials said Wednesday.

Yeah, he felt so bad he ordered the torture continued.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[happyslug]

33. Bush's problem is HOW the Sunni-Arab World is viewing the Hanging, not the hanging itself

Remember, after Abu Ghraib, the Administration said it will NEVER permit such actions again (and then forbade Cameras in the Prison, but did NOTHING in regard to the Torture). This administration is NOT concerned about Saddam or any one else, it is worried about how this administration is VIEWED by people. Thus the problem, in this administration view, is NOT the hanging but the Pictures of the hanging. Just like the Abu Ghraib torture (Where the problem was NOT the Torture but the PICTURES of the Torture).

[daleo]

35. Bush probably is upset

Seeing Hussein go to his death with courage and dignity would have freaked Bush out, I bet.

[Duer 157099]

36. I keep hearing reports of children who saw it and did the same thing

You make the connection

(tragedy for those kids, of course)

monkey see monkey do?

[WritersBlock]

37. Horseshit. He was only upset because auto-replay wouldn't work fast enough for him. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

38. Taunting those about to be executed is bush's style.

He was only upset because he wasn't invited.

[2Design]

39. yeah - right - probably wants to collect the rope along with that pistol he got as a trophy n/t

[jamesinca]

40. this is why he is upset

"President Bush was upset after watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution, ...
Dark, grainy video -- apparently recorded on a cell phone"

He wanted the good digital stuff for his 108" HDTV. Dollars to donuts he is pissed about that more than the content of the video.