2006-12-30 18:54:01 · 15 answers · asked by akband 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
He wasn't. He was sober
2006-12-30 18:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by do you smell..... what's coo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Arga on this one. This is exactly what I read online and seen on the news. Not that I am surprised of his reaction while dying, as this is a man who is quite proud of everything he did to all of those innocent people. He was sick and twisted and I think I will sleep better at night knowing that he is dead. Death is of course the easy way out, but he can't hurt anyone again, and for that, there are many who can sleep better at night. That is one death video that I look forward to watching, and that is something I never thought I would say, but it is true.
And for the person who said all Muslims love death, I am sure that the innocent women, men, and children were not loving the pain and torture that Saddam subjected them to, so you may want to rephraise that. I don't believe for one second that they were enjoying and loving it.
2006-12-31 03:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by miakoda_05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why else did Saddam smile? He was actually sneering and mocking everyone who was in that video. I seen the video (full length, right up to the time they cut him down) and he was literally exchanging ridicule to the witnesess, and heckling them, as they were to him, just prior to his trap-door opening.
Saddam knew he brought out everyone's emotions, and he knew he was going to die, from the time he was captured!!
He was laughing at everyone. He knew what he was doing. Maybe in his mind, he thinks he's off to see his Jahad (sp?), or God, or whatever Higher Power he believes in...to him, he thinks all the deeds he did, while in power, were justified. He never took anyone else's word, but his own. He was a legend in his own mind!!
But, the smile..the sneer...the twisted grin on his face could have meant a variety of things....we'll never know, because he's taken that to his grave with him...unfortunately...
Anyway, why do we care??
2006-12-31 03:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by argamedius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saddam probebly lost his fear of death due to the ANTIDEPRESSIVE drugs they are giving him to face the hangman knot ready for him.
Furthermore, SADDAM knows that he is already a old man now, and anyway he will die due to OLD age. Being hanged this way will give him a HEROIC death and also a place in HISTORY.
So he dominated his feelings with a brave SMILE toward the hangman's knot while facing the media.
2006-12-31 03:16:05 · answer #4 · answered by naafraat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can Saddam (Rehmatullah) embrace martyrdom with smile?
Just before 3 seconds of his hanging and the knot around his neck, when some Shia Muslims in front of him were abusing him, he was smiling and answering all of the abuses of the whole crowd instead of fearing death just a few seconds away from him. In the noise of abuses, he recited the Shahadah and Kalma, but before he could finish his kalma, he was hanged brutally. Those 3 seconds just changed a lot around him. And I used to wonder how are legends and heroes made? And I saw this with my own eyes with an utter dis-belief with the kind of bravery and calmness a hero embraces death.
When I dug deep behind his smiles and inside Quran which he believed true, I saw a verse saying "And those who die in the path of Allah, don't call them dead as they are alive and eating, but you don't have enough power to see them alive". In the due course, I suddenly realized that he became alive inside me as my hero. Someone who is thousands of miles away, have never met me and I have heard nothing but media propaganda against him, how can only 3 seconds change him from ZERO to HERO? I realized the difference lies in the bravery and the kind of calmness that Islam gives to its followers without any fear of death.
Muslims are supposed to look deep into the eyes of death with the kind of smile that death itself is frightened. And here I remember the saying of a great leader of Indian Muslims Mr.Tipu Sultan that ONE day of life of a brave lion is better than 100 years of life of a coward jackal. How many more Saddams will be needed to awaken the Muslim Ummah from sleep? I believe none as if those who can't awaken now they are better sleeping and dead as cowards. Let them sleep and let the brave Muslims enjoy this brief stay in this world by looking deep down the eyes of Gun fire, Missiles, Aeroplanes, Nukes, and whatever ways evil created to bring fear amongst its enemies. But Good will always prevail and Evil is the one that was, is and will be damned forever.
His last words to the abusive crowd in front of him were "You are not man enough". Long live human decency, bravery, intelligence and the power to reason!!!
2007-01-02 00:25:24 · answer #5 · answered by Amir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi! He did not want any one to see his fear, so he tried to keep a strong face. In his culture, his belief, if he showed any sign of fear, then he would be looked upon as less of a man ( at least by those who actually still admire him)
2006-12-31 03:08:40 · answer #6 · answered by Wendy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because Satan and evil had possesed him so completely that he didn't know any better. Whatever the reason, I bet he is definitely not smiling now as he meets his Maker
2006-12-31 02:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by utuseclocal483 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Cause he was tough as nails. Think you get to be dictator of Iraq by being a wuss? He didn't even flinch!!!
2006-12-31 02:57:57 · answer #8 · answered by KM 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was not smiling, simply the brave fearless look .
2006-12-31 03:09:47 · answer #9 · answered by Jaff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he believed he'd be going to heaven and be with God.
2006-12-31 03:17:07 · answer #10 · answered by Fruit Cake Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He looked pretty scared to me
2006-12-31 03:01:16 · answer #11 · answered by Adam P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋