Letters to the Editor
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Dear happy happy joy joy Bush is Great
Since you care so much about human life, you must be so happy because American troops are now completely out of danger, right?
Because someone with as high moral standards as yours would NEVER dare to dance on the graves of American troops, right?
You would never express unbridled joy if there was a chance that an American soldier could be killed during your happy dance, right?
So your unbridled joy HAS TO mean that there's not going to be any more grisly violent deaths in Iraq, right?
Am I right?
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Since you're filled with unbridled joy, it must mean the war is over, and all those children are going to get to see their parents -- safe and healthy -- very soon.
Right?
Because why would a moral person be happy if people were still dying over there?
A moral person could not be happy if Iraq was still a grisly death mill.
Am I right?
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Bush & Co. needed to shut up Saddam
Saddam simply knew way too much about American support of him in the 1980's. You know those weapons we sold him, and that photo of Rummy with Saddam? There's plenty more dirt on Cheney & Rummy where that came from, and if Saddam were left alive, he would ive interviews and write books and pass on everything he knew about these motherfuckers. So it's better to give him a kangaroo trial and kill him. The whole Reagan administration is now safe from being exposed.
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Crux of stupidity
Ye Gods that was a dim witted parody.
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KStote
Oh wait, I forgot, Saddam sucked but Bush and Co (not to mention every president except for maybe Roosevelt and Kennedy and Carter) are worse. Lalalala I'm a genius and a liberal. Did I mention that I can live on air and light alone and that religion is stupid? lalala I'm so smart.
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But am I right?
Can a moral person be genuinely happy today?
Is a happy dance morally appropriate while troops are on the ground facing violent death from all sides?
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Wow, justice can be swift!
Gotta say one thing for Iraqi justice. It's fast!!!
In America, Saddam would be sitting in a cell for thirty years while his case went through appeal after appeal and we taxpayers picked up the tab.
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Quieting Saddam
It seems inevitable, given the useless actions of this war, that they would screw this one up. Did Bush actually say "milestone"? How many miles have we walked, how many new chances have we squandered? Cole is right that it should have been crimes against the Sunnis that Saddam was tried for; I think he should have been tried in the Hague too, and not by the Iraqis. If he was guilty of "international" war crimes, why then was he tried nationally?
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Hold the applause
To all the cheerleaders at this ghoulish spectacle, I would like to make one important point that future historians will certainly have to weigh. Up to the invasion, the Bush administration insisted that Saddam was hiding huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons while he as adamantly insisted that any such stockpiles had been destroyed. Saddam was proved to be correct while the US administration was proven to be 100% wrong. Ditto for Saddam's alleged links to AlQueda. These are factual premises, easily verifiable. So the onus of compromised credibility would seem to rest with the US administration and the puppet regime of Al Maliki. I mean, in any US court, any testimony from a proven perjurer is dismissed. Therefore, it would seem, given the somewhat difficult circumstances of the Saddam defense team, that justice was not and could not have been done. Simple, factual premises, simple factual conclusion.
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NOW can they go after bin-Forgotten?
Saddam was in U.S. custody for three years. During that time, I hope someone thought to ask him the whereabouts of his "reconstituted nuclear weapon" -- you know, the one Dick "Cakewalk" Cheney told us existed on Meet the Press on 03/16/03? What about the items on the long list of WMD read by Junior at his 2003 State of the Union -- you remember, the "35,000 liters of VX nerve agent", and so forth? No? Well then surely someone thought to at least question him regarding his involvement in 9/11? Anyone? Hello?
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All This Spite
All this spite I read here is because Bush one won.
And you democraps would rather have your gonads crushed than have him win.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! He won, you lose!
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Horrible Upheaval
Apparently, Iraqi's (and many Americans) think that violence will solve everything...Saddam's hanging is just one more violent act amongst all the others. Saddam did give Iraq some stability and we have destroyed any semblance of order in that country. Iraqi’s are fleeing their country in droves causing strain on neighboring countries. What horrible upheaval! All because we let some spoiled, prodigal son with name recognition into the White House! This is an awful, awful disaster!
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Shame
It's all been said by others but, for me:
1. Saddam is dead - couldn't happen to a worse man.
2. He should not have been executed - a civilized society does not kill its citizens if it can avoid it. Shame on the likes of Tony Blair who acquiesced to the execution even though it is officially not acceptable in the UK - so it's OK for them but not for us.
3. The trial was a total farce, orchestrated by the US. He should have been tried by the International Court.
4. His execution was disgracefully rushed.
5. No good will come of it.
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What I think about justice and happiness
I suffered a horrible violent crime when I was sixteen. The perp was never caught but I've managed to have a pretty good life nonetheless.
If he had been caught and appropriately punished, it would have been a good thing, for sure.
But would it have made me HAPPY to see him being punished?
Jesus Christ, no, I could not have been HAPPY about his punishment!
Because that would have implied that I was HAPPY that he committed his original crime!
I don't think a moral person should derive happiness from ANY outcome of a crime, not even the punishment phase.
Crime is sad and terrible -- from the beginning, all the way to the end.