High Theater in Baghdad
Saddam swung this morning. Not that this will surprise anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for a while, but I thought I would state the obvious.
I can't even pretend to have sympathy for the man. He was a total monster, after all. A power hungry sociopath at the least, a war criminal, and all the other atrocious things he's been accused of. But let's get real for a second; his fair trial wasn't, his judge was replaced in the middle of the trial, attorneys were assassinated left and right, they didn't even pretend to listen to his appeal, and basically said "go swing". And this is fair?
And then there's his hanging. They denied it was going to happen until it did, everything was done in secret, and the executioner's wore black masks. It happened at dawn no less. This reminds me of some melodramatic western. "As the sun slowly rose above the horizon on the last day of the year and cast the first of its hallowed rays on the High Plains, the condemned man climbed the scaffolding, a resolute look on his craggy, hardened face." Sounds like a Clint Eastwood script doesn't it?
Then there's the statement released from the White House, with a timeline of our Idiot in Chief's activities last night, which was careful to state he went to bed before the execution and was not awakened when it occured. Said statement caused me to snort hot coffee out of my nose. I'd be willing to bet he watched the whole thing on closed circuit TV. (Maybe with popcorn to boot!)
This whole thing has his fingerprints all over it. The "cowboy" who isn't, pretending to deliver justice to the wilds of Iraq. I can't help but wonder though, if he might have felt a chill as he watched this. Saddam was hanged for ordering the deaths of 169 innocent men. A war crime to be sure. But our President has caused the deaths of over 655,000 civilians since he started his little war. Not that I think he'll ever face a war crimes tribunal, mind you. But I wonder if he even noticed the similarities?
I can't even pretend to have sympathy for the man. He was a total monster, after all. A power hungry sociopath at the least, a war criminal, and all the other atrocious things he's been accused of. But let's get real for a second; his fair trial wasn't, his judge was replaced in the middle of the trial, attorneys were assassinated left and right, they didn't even pretend to listen to his appeal, and basically said "go swing". And this is fair?
And then there's his hanging. They denied it was going to happen until it did, everything was done in secret, and the executioner's wore black masks. It happened at dawn no less. This reminds me of some melodramatic western. "As the sun slowly rose above the horizon on the last day of the year and cast the first of its hallowed rays on the High Plains, the condemned man climbed the scaffolding, a resolute look on his craggy, hardened face." Sounds like a Clint Eastwood script doesn't it?
Then there's the statement released from the White House, with a timeline of our Idiot in Chief's activities last night, which was careful to state he went to bed before the execution and was not awakened when it occured. Said statement caused me to snort hot coffee out of my nose. I'd be willing to bet he watched the whole thing on closed circuit TV. (Maybe with popcorn to boot!)
This whole thing has his fingerprints all over it. The "cowboy" who isn't, pretending to deliver justice to the wilds of Iraq. I can't help but wonder though, if he might have felt a chill as he watched this. Saddam was hanged for ordering the deaths of 169 innocent men. A war crime to be sure. But our President has caused the deaths of over 655,000 civilians since he started his little war. Not that I think he'll ever face a war crimes tribunal, mind you. But I wonder if he even noticed the similarities?
posted by RAS at 12/30/2006 06:16:00 AM
1 Comments:
Who gives a shit? Piss on all those pigs including the ONE that will face the gallows for his crimes and the puke bags that put him in a place of death to whomever it was dictated. i mean every mother fucker that put him in office!@!!
piss i'm sure i'm the only one that thinks about how that cocksucker should quit this earth?.
two more days and its tits to the bore and i will win flat out, fuck those assholes that can make all those rules and think that its something thats enforcible , wish i was there but i have my own fucking war to fight and don't know what the fuck i can do from here , i've emailed all my friends as to your plight but shit they are all children of the fucking light and do not understand war the same as you and i. thats bullshit to i've watched the mayan calendar deal and started studying it at least thirty years ago with some mayan decendent friends in mexico city and so it only a little bit new as far as it go s because we did mucho peyote together and the secrets were revealed then to me except that it was so overwhelming that most of it was finally absorbed back into the shit sack that we call the collectable onerous equivalent of....insanity lives here you all, won't you all come in and have a piece of watermelon???
you sound a little sophisticated for this ole dude but you can ask something if you want.
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