Saddam: "Just Shoot Me".

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14035184/

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization, complaining that he had been brought to the chamber against his will and rejecting the tribunal as an agent of the U.S. occupation.

“The Americans insisted that I come against my will. This is not fair,” Saddam told the chief judge.

He also asked the court to execute him by firing squad — “not by hanging as a common criminal” — if it convicts him of all charges and sentences him to death.

[Selatius]

1. I want him alive; I want him to testify that he was armed by the US gov't

That way, we have the ammunition to bring war crimes charges and charges of crimes against humanity against current and former members of the US government.

I want them all to "hang."

[ps1074]

2. I still don't understand

Why they didn't send him to Hague? If he is the war criminal Bush says he is, then his place is in Hague. Then again - if the trial was in Hague, they wouldn't be able tio kill him as there is no death penalty there...

[Yupster]

3. Visions of Herman Goering

That was his same petition - to be shot like a soldier not hanged like a criminal.

The night before his hanging he took poison escaping the noose.