Iraq and U.S. combine for beheadings: Is this the kind of force they understand?

Saddam Hussein’s half brother and the former head of Iraq’s Revolutionary Court were both hanged. Barzan Hassan, Hussein’s half brother, was decapitated during the proceedings.

From the Associated Press:

Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein’s aides early Monday, and one of the condemned was accidentally decapitated.

The official video of the hangings shows Hussein’s half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away, The Associated Press reported.

The executioner’s noose severed the head of Barzan Hassan, the former chief of Hussein’s secret police, according to a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s office.

“It was not like a very pretty scene,” said Basam Ridha, who was one of the witnesses.

Ridha said the executions were carried out with dignity and respect, and called the accidental decapitation “an act of God.”

For more than five years now, the warmongers amongst us have been repeating that our “enemies only understand force.”

Well, we’re beheading the fuckers now. Do they understand yet? Are we winning now?

–WKW

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