Saddam Hussain Executed by Hanging

Posted December 29, 2006, 1:17 p.m.

Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq, was executed by hanging at about 10:00 p.m. EST this evening (6:00 a.m. 12/30, Iraq time), reports senior U.S. officials and Hussein’s lawyers. The U.S. military in Iraq is on alert for possible reprisals by Baathist insurgents and other terrorist forces operating in the middle-eastern nation. Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for crimes against humanity during his twenty-five year rule.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

God reigneth. All is well.

Once I conquer Finland, I’ll head south through the Baltics and on to Belarus. Soon, all the world will find me mildly amusing.

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies, and those who keep company with them are apt to get a bullying habit of mind.

The word love is, perhaps, the most misunderstood common word in the English language because in the popular understanding it is defined by feelings and attraction. Authentic love, in contrast, is an act of the will.

I despise the public. That’s my only vindication.

The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

Do what you can do, not what you can’t. Then build on the momentum.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause.

But perhaps [the bricklayer] is not merely laying bricks. Maybe he is building a wall. And the wall is part of a building. And the building is a cathedral. And the purpose of the cathedral is the glorification of the Highest Good.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

We’re faced with problems that are caused by the fact that science—or that which passes for science today—is often neither accurate nor reliable.

It very frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortune of the State until he has discovered his incompetence to conduct his own affairs.

Life is just one damn thing after another.

Go to Top	`tt`
Go to Bottom	`tb`
Search	`ts`
Main Content	`tc`
Open Gallery (if present)	`tg`
Open Flagpole	`tf`
Keyboard Shortcuts	`tk`
Site Information	`ti`

Main Menu

X

Site Information

Keyboard Shortcuts