Comments on: No Surprise

By: VJB

VJB — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:57:11 +0000

PZ Meyers (pharyngula @ science blogs) says he wouldn’t mind getting the fried food on a stick concession at Saddam’s demise. Hanging IS too good for him, but it is hardly enough to expiate his crimes. Call me sadistic, but he should be subject to trials for at least the next ten years, and then be forced to watch nasty film loops. Death is no proper pay-back. Redemption is the ultimate punishment. Then comes despair. If I recall my Jesuit upbringing correctly, despair is the one unpardonable sin. I sorta get the logic: another kind of torture.

By: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:00:25 +0000

Remember that if you’re a wingnut, anyone who disagrees with you is crazy or evil; probably both. D is for Derangement.

I thought “he” was fairly indicative of where this person was coming from: The Department of Couldn’t Even Get THAT Right.

With kind regards,
Dog, etc.

By: maha

maha — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:46:28 +0000

He?

I don’t know what “BDS” means, either. I take that was an insult.

By: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:40:04 +0000

The atrocity for which Hussein was sentenced occurred in 1982. (From the 18th graf of the NYT story , and I suppose I should be grateful that they thought to put it in at all.)

And, (a), the following year, Donald Rumsfeld was shaking Hussein’s hand in friendship and the US was delivering weapons and dual-use technologies to Hussein.

And, (b), the NYT’s Professional Editors(TM) don’t seem to think that fact is relevant enough to even mention.

–Dog, etc.

PS. “… because he’s a BDS-suffering barking moonbat.”

He?

By: UrbanGrounds » Blog Archive » Saddam Sentenced to Hang

UrbanGrounds » Blog Archive » Saddam Sentenced to Hang — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:53:21 +0000

[...] Maha at the Mahablog is questioning the timing of the sentence…because he’s a BDS-suffering barking moonbat. [...]

By: lafrance

lafrance — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:19:15 +0000

The dimwit and chief, our dear leader, would want death. Torture to death. Then, when he doesn’t feel better, smarter, or more manly, he’ll wonder why it isn’t good enough. So, he’ll look to Iran for his next kill. He thinks Sadam will cure the bloodlust and emptiness.

By: mamameow

mamameow — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:01:21 +0000

i do not think this country sees much difference between sadam and bush. no big deal. let’s hope someday we can get our brutal dictator on trial. as far as the death penalty, i was for it before i was against it. for i am sort of for it, ever since 10/9/06 when my brother was murdered, trussed up and put in a trash bag into a dumpster. his wife has been charged with 1st degree murder. now i am for it if i can do the injecting or pulling the plug.

By: Steve from Canuckistan

Steve from Canuckistan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:57:19 +0000

The ultimate irony may be when the Bush administration realizes that there is only one solution to the Iraq problem …dispense with (so called) democracy and install a strongman…. another one, just like Saddam. Given the current chaos and three years cumulative effect of Bush’s screw-ups; a strongman more brutal than Sadam will be needed to get the country under control. This will be Bush’s legacy. Iraq continues to head into further chaos, ugliness and depravity. What a despicable yet fitting place for dear leader to be. It will be interesting to see how he wears his new chloths now that his emperor costume has been vanquished to the pawn shop. It will not soon be forgotten that Bush has almost bankrupted his nation for this. What goes around comes around. If a strong man does come to Iraq he may owe allegiance more to Iran and Syria than to the United States. Because of George Bush the US is now despised in the Middle East. You know the birds have finally come home to roost when we see Pappy’s friends trying to bail junior out his mess. The US will need to shed its image as oppressor and destroyer if it is to have any hope of positively influencing events there. Will the election change any of this? The democrats have me worried. Will there be any investigations? Bush has made such a mess of things that the end result will likely remain unchanged. Just a different path getting there.

By: felicity smith

felicity smith — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:50:36 +0000

I just heard Mr. Bush condemn Sadaam for torturing people and killing people. I condemn Mr. Bush for torturing people and killing people. Sadaam has been brought before a court of justice. Will Mr. Bush be brought before a court of justice?

Besides being barbaric, the death penalty condones killing. And then there’s that odd definition of killing called collateral damage. The perpetrators of 9/11 were not killing 3000 people, they were attacking the symbols of American power: The 3000 were collateral damage. We were not killing untold thousands of Iraqis when we invaded Iraq: They were collateral damage. So, there is a difference between dead and dead?

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:49:25 +0000

Swami, the correct answer is #3, Ted (Lookin’ Mighty) Haggard.

Boy, his denials unraveled fast. I love it.