Something About This Don't Feel Right
Saddam Hussein is dead. At this point, I am reminded of Fannie Lou Hamer who said, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired [of death my comment]". This whole business of Iraq has been rotten from beginning to the end (of Saddam)--from our government supplying Saddam with Weapons of Mass Destruction to our accusing Saddam of using Weapons of Mass Destruction.
As I retire to bed, Anderson Cooper promises images of the execution, reviewed by CNN editors who will spare us the gory details. It's almost 2:00 am and no images have appeared. President Bush awoke from his slumber to issue a statement, which talked of our noble effort in Iraq, how Saddam was a tyrant and killer and how our troops came to save the day. I've spent a good deal of the evening painting my daughter's kitchen and in the interim viewing historical images of our noble war effort including gory images of Abu Ghraib. I've listened to hearsay and images of Iraqis celebrating the death of Saddam in Dearborn, Michigan. Two more Marines have died and we are approaching 3,000 military deaths. Ho Hum.
The time of this is all off. It is an Islamic holiday. A time of reflection following a holy journey. Something about this don't feel right and something about this just ain't right. I found these comments on Kuwaittimes.net from Cairo, just after the execution by several Egyptians: "Maybe Saddam Hussein deserves execution ... but who holds the Americans responsible for the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians in the past three years? That's more than Saddam killed in 30 years," added Safaa Fadlallah, 40, who works in a Beirut shop. "In the time of Saddam Hussein, people were safe in Iraq. Now we turn on the television and hear hundreds of people are being killed every day," asked a 54-year-old Egyptian shop assistant who asked not to be named. "It is better to have a tyrant who keeps his people safe than a situation where shots are constantly being fired in the street." Fatima Haddad, a Sunni Muslim housewife in the Gulf state of Bahrain, said: "What you see in Iraq is much worse than anything under Saddam."
Ho Hum.
Saddam Hussein is dead. At this point, I am reminded of Fannie Lou Hamer who said, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired [of death my comment]". This whole business of Iraq has been rotten from beginning to the end (of Saddam)--from our government supplying Saddam with Weapons of Mass Destruction to our accusing Saddam of using Weapons of Mass Destruction.
As I retire to bed, Anderson Cooper promises images of the execution, reviewed by CNN editors who will spare us the gory details. It's almost 2:00 am and no images have appeared. President Bush awoke from his slumber to issue a statement, which talked of our noble effort in Iraq, how Saddam was a tyrant and killer and how our troops came to save the day. I've spent a good deal of the evening painting my daughter's kitchen and in the interim viewing historical images of our noble war effort including gory images of Abu Ghraib. I've listened to hearsay and images of Iraqis celebrating the death of Saddam in Dearborn, Michigan. Two more Marines have died and we are approaching 3,000 military deaths. Ho Hum.
The time of this is all off. It is an Islamic holiday. A time of reflection following a holy journey. Something about this don't feel right and something about this just ain't right. I found these comments on Kuwaittimes.net from Cairo, just after the execution by several Egyptians: "Maybe Saddam Hussein deserves execution ... but who holds the Americans responsible for the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians in the past three years? That's more than Saddam killed in 30 years," added Safaa Fadlallah, 40, who works in a Beirut shop. "In the time of Saddam Hussein, people were safe in Iraq. Now we turn on the television and hear hundreds of people are being killed every day," asked a 54-year-old Egyptian shop assistant who asked not to be named. "It is better to have a tyrant who keeps his people safe than a situation where shots are constantly being fired in the street." Fatima Haddad, a Sunni Muslim housewife in the Gulf state of Bahrain, said: "What you see in Iraq is much worse than anything under Saddam."
Ho Hum.
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