30 Days Or Less – Saddam Execution Announced

It looks like Saddam will be meeting his maker soon, very soon. This will be good news for the Iraqi people.

Iraq’s highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for Saddam Hussein in his first trial and said it must be carried out within 30 days. The sentence “must be implemented within 30 days,” chief judge Aref Shahin. “From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation.” AP

Update with more coverage: Washington Post , Reuters (defending Saddam again), Pajamas Media recognized the fact the quick appeal lets the execution take place as it will be before Saddam is 70 years old.

The Battle In Iraq – Electricity

We wonder why Iraq seems to be going poorly, but the issues faced are not always the ones reported on a regular basis. You hear about the issues of roadside bombs, but the terrorists and insurgents are using techniques that are quite simple and yet effective.

They are shutting down electricity coming into the city. That simple. They are blowing up the power lines so that Baghdad has limited power coming in, making the hardships look much worse in Baghdad where the reporters and news media are than in most other parts of the country. You may not like the insurgents, but they do know how to play the twenty first century media game.

Over the past six months, Baghdad has been all but isolated electrically, Iraqi officials say, as insurgents have effectively won their battle to bring down critical high-voltage lines and cut off the capital from the major power plants to the north, south and west.

 The battle has been waged in the remotest parts of the open desert, where the great towers that support thousands of miles of exposed lines are frequently felled with explosive charges in increasingly determined and sophisticated attacks, generally at night. Crews that arrive to repair the damage are often attacked and sometimes killed, ensuring that the government falls further and further behind as it attempts to repair the lines.

And in a measure of the deep disunity and dysfunction of this nation, when the repair crews and security forces are slow to respond, skilled looters often arrive with heavy trucks that pull down more of the towers to steal as much of the valuable aluminum conducting material in the lines as possible. The aluminum is melted into ingots and sold.What amounts to an electrical siege of Baghdad is reflected in constant power failures and disastrously poor service in the capital, with severe consequences for security, governance, health care and the mood of an already weary and angry populace. via the  New York Times.

We will not rest from our Jihad until we have Destroyed the White House… This Sounds a lot like they are going away?

Don’t ask for things, they might come true.

What did George McGovern say?

“The best way to reduce this insurgency is to get the American forces out of there.” “That’s what’s driving this insurgency.”

Hardly sounds like Al Qaeda is going home or stopping in Iraq does it according to the latest audio tape from the Islamofascists. Remember that warning that went out prior to the midterm elections about emboldening the enemy? The Democrats stated it was just GWB trying to scare the voters. You still think so? What about now? How does America think that the midterms would have turned out if this tape was released a day or two before the elections?

Al Qaeda in Iraq’s purported leader vowed on Friday that his fighters would never rest until they have reached Jerusalem and destroy the White House.

In the audio tape made available on a militant web site, a man introduced as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir said Al Qaeda has 12,000 fighters at the ready in Iraq.

“We will not rest from our Jihad until we are under the olive trees of Rumieh and we have destroyed the dirty black house — which is called the White House,” al-Muhajir said. (FOX News)

Isn’t that reassuring that an Islamofascist like Abu Ayyub al-Masri is gleeful over the midterm elections and the shift of power to Democrats. Is this what side people really want to be on? Seriously.   Like John Murtha  who  vows Bush “is not going to go on with this war.”

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