...you really are one dumb motherfucker. Anyone ever tell you that? It's clear enough from your post that you barely have two brain-cells to rub together.

Have a nice life. Although, someone like you? I'm betting your life isn't very nice. Now, or ever.

But just out of curiosity, how do you define yourself? Do you claim to be an American, and hold to the beliefs that are generally described as uniquely American, such as love of the rule of law, not man, for instance? Fair trials are apparently not high on your list. How about the dignity of human beings? Because what you just said about burning people and gassing them in retaliation for the burning and the gassing the Kurds got is a real moral case of split personality for you. So your saying that unless people agree with you, their children should be gassed and burned because that's what Saddam did to the Kurds. So gassing and burning isn't really all that horrible, it's OK if we do it, because we are wise and righteous people.

I dunno salonliberalshit, seems to me that if you think that any children anywhere deserve to burn and be gassed because someone's opinion doesn't echo yours, then I'd say that you're no better than Saddam. Right?

Ebonius wrote, in part:

But you are too squeamish for the climax of your three years or more of calling for Saddam's death? Jeez! It's like you've been watching a three-year porno movie and now at last the stud is getting ready to splooge all over the cheer leader and you cover your eyes? Can't watch?

*********

Ebonius, you are God. Ya read my mind.

When I heard the network reps on NPR yesterday nattering on about "good taste" I was utterly flabbergasted. Tell me, you suited-up pimps, just what is it about ANY of the last five years of what passes for US foreign policy that has been in "good taste?" You won't show us the dead arriving by night, every damned night, in their anonymous coffins, and you won't show us the cum-shot we've all apparently been waiting for...the moment of Saddam's death.

What a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

Sheee-IT. The plaintive subtext of "this is all bad for business" makes me want to put my head through the nearest wall. America, you are a pit of ignorance and greed and mendacity and primitive tribal horseshit, and this is one of those days when I wish I was...Canadian, for instance. I would have said French, but those mofos are even worse than we are.

Again, Ebonius, you are God, you said it all, there's no more to say.

C'mon people now

piss on your brother

everybody get together

try to hate one another

right now

Hate is but a word we love

Love's a thing we hate

We can melt the mountains down

And make the angels die

Though the Blackhawk's

armed and locked on

Someone's gonna die

So c'mon people now

piss on your brother

everybody get together

try to hate one another

right now

Some may come and some may go

But hate will surely last

If we see a tender thought

We must kick it in the ass

We are the dominant species

all the rest are feces

Nationalism comes natural

to all the good true Nazis

So C'mon people now

gas and burn your brother

everybody get together

and kill each other right now

(Sorry Dino, I couldn't resist)

“Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him,” al-Maliki said.

Allah Akbar! I'll tell her when I see her, him, me, you, it.

I'm making my way through the letters, and I'm puzzled by one thing:

why now?

What was so important about doing Saddam now? I don't see it. His continued existence was not affecting the situation in Iraq in any meaningful way. Or, so it seemed anyway. Maybe I'm wrong there.

I really do feel like there's a mystery here that deserves exposure. Why did he get done now? Why not later?

I mean, if you're gonna do the guy, do it right, with maximum benefit to those in power. This way, there wasn't much benefit to be found. Not for Maliki, not for Bush, not for anyone. So, I really am confused about this.

Although, that said, as others have noted, Bushco has so thoroughly and completely screwed this pooch, one more grotesque fuck-up isn't all that surprising.

I can't help thinking though that there's more going on. This seems to have been handled with such unmitigated incompetence..

And for you right-wing trolls out there who seem to be unable to distinguish between "sympathy for saddam" and profound disgust with GW Bush and his policies, keep it up, you're just displaying your truly impressive stupidity.

Number of Iraqi civilians killed by military intervention: >50,000. (source: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/)

Total Iraqi death toll since March 2003: >600,000. (source: Wall Street Journal - http://tinyurl.com/ze8g7).

Number of bodies Tony Blair said were found (2004) in mass graves: 400,000. Number of bodies actually found at that time: 5,000. (source: http://tinyurl.com/48hle)

The US state department, in 2003, echo's Blairs figures: http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/19675.htm.

Even if you take the State Department's figures at face value, more people have died in Iraq in the three years since the US led invasion began, than in 25 years under Saddam.

The only difference is that Saddam's actions are described as "atrocities", while we describe the results of our own actions as "casualties". Saddam was a "brutal dictator", while the supporters of the neocon cabal responsible for this war expects we should be honored as "liberators".

Shame on everyone who supported this war. Shame on anyone who continues to support this administration.

Look beyond the 'smoke and mirrors' for the answer to "Why now" Chas.

white agnostic Englishman.

May all you Saddam lovers live to see your children get the "gift of Saddam".

May all of you asswipes who excused Saddam because you hate Bush choke on poison gas right after you see your loved ones choke to death on poison gas.

Right before you do.