Bush’s carnival of blood

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1397.shtml

This is a dark day for Americans and Iraqis alike.

Killing Saddam Hussein isn’t justice; it's vengeance. Only Bush believes the two are the same.

How are we supposed to feel now that we know that Saddam will be hanged for his crimes?

Elated? Energized? Jubilant?

Will it wash away the oceans of blood that Bush generated with his misguided and tragic war?

The administration clings to the foolish notion that killing Saddam will somehow justify their unprovoked invasion and slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis.

It won’t.

I expect that many people feel the same sense of disgust and emptiness that I do. The joy of executing Saddam is limited to a small cadre of men who revel in the suffering and subjugation of others. They are human in name only.

Nothing Saddam did in his life will make him seem larger in the eyes of his people than his death. Still, the administration doesn’t care if they turn Saddam into a martyr as long as they get a bump in the polls before Tuesday’s midterm elections. It’s pathetic. Fortunately, the American people are not nearly as bloodthirsty as their leaders. All they want is an end to war and the safe return of the troops.

Sentencing a man to hang merely to improve one’s prospects at the ballot box is about as desperate as it gets. It may be the most cynical political ploy we've seen in the last six years. It's a thoroughly vile act unworthy of anyone holding high office.

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last sentence of the article:

"This isn’t justice. It's an example of a nation’s dark shame."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The worst part of it is that we lost almost 3000 American soldiers

and spent $300b to get one guy. And after he's dead the disaster will just continue.

[Demeter]

2. And to Add Insult to Injury--It Isn't Bin Ladin, Either!

[reichstag911]

4. Oh, I don't know...

...that our 3,000 dead soldiers is the worst part. Perhaps those (hypothesized) 650,000 dead Iraqis could be worse.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Yes, that is worse. I was only looking at it in terms of an argument

against the stupid Republican notion that catching an executing Saddam Hussein means anything to the U.S. I think this has reached the point where more Iraqis have been killed as a result of Bush's insane war than Saddam ever killed. And the other thing, of course, when I say so much was sacrificed to get one guy, it wasn't even the guy who did 9/11. Hey, George, where's Osama?

[reichstag911]

8. Osama bin...

...Forgotten?

[Christa]

3. The last sentence:

"This isn’t justice. It's an example of a nation’s dark shame."


:cry:

[northamericancitizen]

5. Kicking...for vengeance isn't justice. eom

[twilight_sailing]

7. Elated!

"How are we supposed to feel now that we know that Saddam will be hanged for his crimes?"

Now that we know such a thing can be accomplished in modern times this means that there is hope that our own War Criminals will one day face justice.

In time America will align itself with the
International Criminal Court and the rest of the modern world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

[Rageneau]

9. Killing Saddam isn't vengence ... It's politics.

[Imagevision]

10. Prediction: Saddam will have a heart attack and be cremated...

[Bad Penny]

11. if bush was an insect exterminator

he'd take care of your cockroach problem by stealing everything you own then burning down your house

[Bad Penny]

12. ...with your family in it

[elehhhhna]

13. Notice the MSM is no longer stating the NUMBER of Iraqis SH killed...

Ya think it's because Bush's score is higher than that now?

[Erechtheides]

14. k&r

:kick: the bums out!