The only way this could come together is to have a lot of really stupid people in the world who hate Bush and draw lines between dots that really don't connect.... But, since we have so many of those, here's the picture.... An 'old west movie' kinda picture. A Cowboy (Dubya) rides up and lasso's a villian (Saddam) and after a lengthy trial, we have a good old fashioned hanging. The cowboy rides off into the sunset having made the west a safer place. The good guy triumphs over the bad guy, etc.. If you go to the archives, how many westerns would have a similar storyline? I know it was the American military that captured Saddam, not Bush. It was the Iraqi govt that prosecuted, judged and will hang Saddam (but this is where all those really stupid people come in handy because the story will read as if it was Bush). Anyhow, looks like this thing will wrap up (at least this chapter) in a couple hours. Hopefully Iraq will follow this up with another few hundred just like it to get the point across to the insurgency that there is a government in place with laws and the eventual ability to enforce them.
While its true the US Military captured Saddam and the Iraqi's tried him, if it weren't for the persistence (I'm sure you might say stupid pig headedness, maybe) then Saddam would still be free to pay Hezzbollah murderers to kill Israeli civilians, Saddam would still be executing about 20,000 to 30,000 of his own people every year (with NO trial), Saddam would still be paying bribes to the French and German diplomats for nuclear technology banned by U.N. Sanctions, Saddam would still be slipping oil for food money into his own pockets thereby starving tens of thousands of his own people, Saddam's sons would still be raping women while their husband’s watched and so on... Thank God (or whatever you believe in) for at least some "stupid" people! PS: No, Iraq is not the desert oasis we hoped it would be by now, but the only reason we know about how bad the conditions are is because of the 24/7 media blitz. This kind of media attention was NEVER possible under Saddam. So given what we knew was going on (I will assume we only heard a fraction too) I'm betting for the most part it is still better. Of course not for those who lost power. Plus 90% of the violence is centered in a relatively small (Baghdad) part of the country.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daronspicher @ Dec 29 2006, 07:10 PM) [snapback]368406[/snapback]</div> We're still waiting for that cowboy to make the West a safer place. So far all he's done is helped al Qaeda exceed its recruiting goals.
It's fun to play Cowboy (he does love the dress-up, doesn't he?) when your butt isn't on the line, or the 300 billion isn't your money. Oh well, maybe with Saddam dead, we really have turned the corner in Iraq.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daronspicher @ Dec 29 2006, 05:10 PM) [snapback]368406[/snapback]</div> I'll provide the horse and the 'moon' rising during that sunset. Let's just get the ole boy to do the ride, then it would surely be 'mission accomplished'!
