Though I don’t really give two fucks whether Saddam lives or dies, I do know one thing: That hellhole was a better place with him than without him. I’ll put down $1000 plus interest that that country won’t get it together in the next half-century. Saddam was a brutal motherfucker who at least knew how to keep his pathetic country straight.
They should put him back in power and give him a medal for doing what needed to be done with those fucking fanatics! There’s always Rep. John Atkins, whos foray into pro-spanking legislation may just earn him a welcome spot in Iraq.
And George Bush can burn in hell, by the way! Send that bitch to the gallows!
Update: A sensible, right-leaning moderate chimes in:
Finally, even though I know he is guilty, and deserves to die, I still can not help but look at the pictures of the gallows and get a chill. There is something so final, so irreversible, so barbaric and primitive about capital punishment (in particular, hanging) that I still can not embrace it, even for scum like Hussein. Advocates of capital punishment will tell you that the finality and the barbaric aspect of the act are features, not bugs.
Update II: I suppose I should shield myself. Yes, I know Clinton lied as well when he claimed Saddam had WMD. I know the Democrats authorized war and many of them claimed he had WMD. For fairness’ sake, I believe most of them should be hanged, too! Not so much because they voted for the war but because most of them are colossal wastes of space. The only difference between Clinton’s lying about WMD and Bush’s lying about WMD is that Bush came to office with a perfect team of neo-cons that had been preparing the lie for a decade that would ultimately lead to this disastrous war.
Update III: Apparently, Saddam is dead. Most interesting is that the news stations are playing file footage of Saddam during his more promising days as brutal dictator. The footage is of him partying with friends and shooting guns in the air. You know…the basic dictator stuff. I’m thinking on file video the major “liberal media” outlets should be playing is that video of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Hussein’s hand. I don’t see that happening, though.
Posted by Mike Matthews in Common Sense