Comments on: Maha Saddam Execution Snark

by: erinyes

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:43:41 +0000

3,000.Just great…. How many more before we say enough? This morning’s paper listed 3 soldiers KIA. Their ages were 20,20, and 21.

by: Swami

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:55:07 +0000

3,000

by: Donna

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:12:41 +0000

tsk, tsk, Swami.
How can you tell a neocon at a glance? Easy, no amount of surge will release the perpetual hard-on.

by: Zeus

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:30:50 +0000

Now we know why Bush delayed that ‘big speech’ that he was supposed to give a few weeks before Christmas, you know the one in response to the Baker Report. When they realized they had nothing, they manipulated the timing of the Hussein execution. Like it really makes a difference. He’s so predictable.

by: Doug Hughes

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:25:27 +0000

I was kinda hoping they would have the execution on pay-per-view. It would be the cherry on the top of a commercial war, waged for oil and for the companies getting filthy rich on no-bid contracts.

by: moonbat

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:34:04 +0000

Agree with your comments and Josh Marshall’s. The whole Iraq rollout, featuring its evil WMDs and threats of Imminent Danger ™ needed a villain, and Saddam filled that role quite well. But as we all found out, the Iraq War was deliberately based on fiction. Sure, Saddam was evil, but so are a dozen other dictators on this planet right now, some with real, as opposed to imaginary WMDs.

Getting rid of Saddam was in no way worth the enormous cost: the killing and maiming of thousands of Americans and many more Iraqis, the destruction of their country, the entrapment and isolation of our own, and finally the emboldening of our real enemies. It’s like using an atomic bomb to kill a fly - it flattened the whole neighborhood - the cure was far worse than the problem. Osama is laughing his a** off at our monumental blunder. His baiting us via 9/11 worked like a charm.

The real tragedy is that without a Saddam-like figure, the country will splinter, and Iran will be the big winner. Like so many things that the right destroys because they cannot understand, Saddam, however evil, served a useful function. He was contained and relatively harmless to the outside world. There was no real reason to displace him, especially when there are other dictators out there who really are a threat to world peace.

There’s also the pathetic need for one crime boss to put down an upstart, to show the rest of the world who’s in charge. I am certain that Bush is doing high fives as he thinks he’s showing the world who’s in charge. I am certain Bush thinks this execution is signifcant and redemptive.

And so, in keeping with the official fiction, we killed a patsy, to reaffirm the story line and shore up Bush’s fraud. How I wish one of our elected officials had the guts to call this sham for what it is. And then I hear Elizabeth Vargas on ABC News parrotting the government’s line. You’ve got to be kidding me.

by: erinyes

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:22:55 +0000

http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html A history Lesson.

by: GDAEman

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:12:10 +0000

marijam - “closing the book” on someone (Saddam) who knows too much.

The book will really be closed, and justice served, when Bush and Olmert are punished for the same crime that lead to Saddam’s hanging: Disproportionate use of Violence.
http://gdaeman.blogspot.com/2006/12/justice-in-executing-saddam-hussein.html

… and for those who want to see, literally, what Stirling Newberry refers to as Bush’s giant middle finger: Bush’s One Finger Victory Salute

by: Swami

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:48:24 +0000

Q. How does the undertaker in Baghdad know which bodies are Sunni and which ones are Shia?

A. The Sunnis are the ones with the drill holes.

by: Daniel DiRito

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:51:48 +0000

To view a cynical and satirical visual of George Bush playing a round of “Hangman”…link here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com/2006/12/george_plays_hangman.php