The lynching of Iraq..-- STOP THIS MAN (worthy of reading, believe me)

[jaysunb]

And why should they not have? Let's remember who this man is. As governor of Texas, he presided over the executions of 152 people, including the first woman put to death in Texas in a century. Her name was Karla Faye Tucker. Bush's response to the world-wide plea raised in her behalf was an astounding display of cruelty, a mocking imitation of the woman begging not to be killed.

Bush rejected appeals for clemency in every death penalty case that came before him. The Texas death chamber, with its lethal injection gurney, is a place of decorum. And savagery. That executions defined the main public distinction that Bush brought to the US presidency sums up the national disgrace, while suggesting also how little surprise there should be that America is presided over now by an executioner-in-chief.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/01/08/the_lynching_of_iraq/

[Original Jack]

1. Much more powerful is this excerpt

George W. Bush is the impresario of unnecessary violence. America has followed him into the death chamber of this war, and now he wants us to believe that the way out is through more death.

Iraqi loss of life remains mostly unimagined, but every evening on the television news, Americans see the sweet faces of young soldiers who have died in Bush's war. They were heroes, not criminals, yet Bush dragged each one of them up onto a gallows. He positioned them on the trap door, hardly wincing as they then fell through. And now, in perhaps the greatest outrage of all, Bush claims that the way to justify the unnecessary deaths he has caused is to add to them. Escalation is his way of saying, go to hell.


That's as powerful a denunciation of Bush that I have read outside of the now defunct Yahoo News message boards.

And it is in the op/ed section of a major American newspaper.

[jaysunb]

3. Welcome to DU !

and yes, your qoute selection is stunning by todays standards of news and opinion reporting.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Very powerful

What a great summation.

[magellan]

4. The closing could only be more satisfying if there was a chance in hell of it being done

With his lies at the beginning of this war, and his fantasy now that an honorable outcome remains possible, the president is a taunting killer, caught in the act. He lacks nothing but the black hood. Stop this man.

[CatWoman]

5. K&R

:kick:

:hi: J

[jaysunb]

6. Thanks

:hi: happy new year !