Letters to the Editor
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Bush fans reveal too much...
Wow - it's really telling - and terrifying - that Bush's remaining admirer's (admirer?) is cheering like a 4 yr old. 'Happy-happy day?' Do you realize how much of your own fragility & weakness you expose with that kind of behavior?
For myself, there's a certain resignation after Saddam's execution, concerning the reality that brutal leaders tend to come to such ends - their lives & deeds ultimately determine their fate. (and yes, I absolutely hope that Bush finds himself in a deserving fate, equal to the deaths of our soldiers & fellow humans around the globe. But that does not require violence. There is something worse for people like that. He will feel small - that is the true fate I wish for him. With this execution, Saddam could feel martyred, & be seen as martyred - I want something worse for those who have caused such misery.)
What is with the childish glee from someone who, I would hazard to guess, didn't lose family members to Saddam's brutal regime? Was Saddam really that big a threat to you, 'Bush is Great?' You sound like the pathetic followers of... oh, say, Saddam himself... who chant quite similar phrases about their puffed up, tyrannical leaders, as they hinge their fragile identities on a seemingly powerful person.
One of the biggest 'ah ha - I get it now' moments for me was when the Bush administration decided NYC had no historical landmarks to protect, & slashed their security funding, while bolstering the hotspots of Charlotte, NC, & Omaha - real danger zones, aka 'red state secure.' This clarified the reality for me: Bush doesn't give a damn about those who died on the much-called-upon 9/11. He doesn't care about protecting his citizens or spreading Democracy. (those voting Middle Eastern nations have a tendency to vote radically against our interests, given that 80%, at least, of their population thinks we're evil.) How anyone could fall for this continued rationalization, I don't know. I don't even think he cares about securing oil supplies. I think Bush is motivated by his own sub-evolved soul that is raging for power & importance, always shadowed by the reality of his own weakness & fear. And his loyal followers, who buy everything he sells them, are like those football fans who are WAY too involved in their team's fate, those who, again, hinge their own fragile identities on the fate of that team. I think Bush is motivated completely by his wee ego, and he draws upon that weakness in others, to feel 'big' and important. (hence, stupid screen names like 'Bush is Great' rather than anything that remotely owns a personal identity.)
Now I think Saddam did the same thing, based on his own inner fears of weakness - there is no other reason that people seek out this kind of power. And his followers are just 'Bush is Greats' in another language. But if we can't learn to recognize when someone is appealing to our collective ego, our weakness and our fears, we will continue to have ruthless leaders, (and I think Bush is ruthless - he's just -for now - hampered by our constitution & the will of our people... I hope.)
Please, let us pick a leader who appeals to the good in us, not our weakness & fear.
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Sociopathic fanatics
Saddam used the sociopathic fanatic's skills up to the end, setting us against each other.
Bush used the sociopathic fanatic's skills up to the end, setting us against each other.
We are relieved that Bush is subject to the U.S. democratic electoral process. Saddam just missed the swearing in of the U.S. democratic electoral process.
We scratch our heads at sociopathic fanatics. We know when to keep our hands out of the cookie jar. It's not just that the democratic electoral process will slap it. But what am I if I don't do my best to grok the wider picture?
Best,
Monty
Read for free: google "Rabid Fanatic" +"Monty Johnston"
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Ford's bad timing continued right on up to the end
Poor Jerry Ford. He had to pick this week for his funeral, all but ignored by the media as they all went nuts over Saddam. JFK got the entourage march, the riderless horse, the black crepe caisson, the lying in state, the pomp and the circumstance -- Ford gets knock back on to page 8 by Saddam.
Now to add insult to injury to the American people, and as a consolation prize, Bush has ordered all federal services like the post office to shut down on Tuesday, the first chance we get to put all this holiday bullshit behind us and get on with life. Now we have to suffer through yet another "day of mourning" and all that CRAP, until Ford is buried and forgotten by next Friday. Typical Bush: Anything he can do to with his absolute power to inconvenience us is just great.
Funny, but I didn't care about Saddam, and I don't give a shit about Gerald Ford either.
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Hey Ebonius -
How about James Brown? Did you care about him? If so, consider this a time of mourning for him! Happy New Year!
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Who was worse?
Saddam or Slobodan? Discuss amongst yourselves...
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To Sciffscorn:
Yeah, they got Saddam on a "lesser charge." But that's often the way it works; consider that Al Capone finally met his match when the Feds got him for, of all things, tax fraud.
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Crux of the messages
Today a great man was brutally murdered by the evil, dictorial, hitlerisc Bush regime. The similarly evil, capitalistic, hypocritical, mean, un-pristine United States and its stupid, uncompassionate, unworldly, idiotic, ignorant citizens are complicit in his death. The former Iraqi President was a great man who only brought stability, safety, and sustinence to his people. Those he mercifully did away with deserved their just fate as they failed to realize the greatness of the Iraqi President's vision. Indeed, perhaps the greatest thing the Iraqi President did was oppose the murderous, great usurper of indigeous power and pride - the United States. Among all the leaders in the middle east, he refused to kowtow to the United States and, as a result, he was continuously persecuted and his nation, his great project, was ultimately destroyed by Bush and the evil neocons. Perhaps, you will protest and point out that at one time the Iraqi President was a lacky, a stooge, a puppet of the United States. But indeed, although that is how it looked to the outside observer, in truth, the Iraqi President was merely and brilliantly playing the USSR and the United States against each other in his ambitious bid to defeat the Iranian regime and restore the greatness of the Iraqi people. Weep not for the Iraqi President's demise, dear friends, for he is now a martyer.