President Bush today, on the execution barbaric lynching of Saddam Hussein:
it is an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy
There’s so much I would like to say about this travesty of democracy, but since I’m too annoyed right now to be the slightest tactful, I suggest you go read what someone smarter than me has to say about this sad ordeal instead. Hats off to Robert Fisk and Glenn Greenwald for expressing what I feel but lack the skill to write. Oh, and thanks to Vash, of course, for pointing me to their articles in the first place.
Just one thing, though; I’m not one to sympathise with dictators, but those morons on CNN and their endless gloating make it pretty hard not to. This isn’t the first time they’ve made me feel bad for the guy, either (the link I intended to put here didn’t work for some reason, but I’m referring to the humiliating cavity search footage). I was rather happy to see Pinochet go the other day (apart from the fact that his crimes were never officially recognised), but then again, he wasn’t murdered in the name of this so-called democracy we’re all supposed to worship unconditionally.
If this really was a murder to end all murders, I could possibly let it slide, but I think we all know that this is not the case, nor will there ever be such a case.
