Liberals still hung up on Saddam
by JohnHuang2
First it was Mark Warner. Then it was Evan Bayh. Now it looks like the hanging takes Saddam out of the running for the '08 Democrat nomination as well. Nice way to end the year, though. Making lemonade from lemons, the press says Saddam went down swinging.
I'm swinging high
I'm swinging low
And I'm getting down
And I'm to and fro
And that's the way the party goes
(From the song, Don't Say No, by Erasure)
After spending a week mourning the death of Saddam, liberals picked themselves up and began the new year . . . still mourning the death of Saddam. Democrats complained hysterically that Saddam was denied a dignified hanging. After all, he killed only over a million people. Saddam ran human beings through shredders and gassed thousands for kicks, yet he was taunted and made to feel uncomfortable. That's not nice!
All the usual brilliantly compelling excuses were trotted out. The hanging was "rushed." Shoulda waited for DNA evidence. Could have the wrong brutal dictator. Even if true, Saddam hasn't committed genocide in many years. His last horrible atrocity was years ago. The hanging won't make us safer. Iraqis didn't fly jets into the World Trade Center -- Afghans did. Or Shiite tribes from that other country, Tora-Bora. Um, no, it was Shiite Bilderbergers. Or Wal-Mart. No, wait -- it was an inside job by radical Methodists, George Bush and Dick Cheney. Apparently, the towers came down by explosive charges planted by demolition expert, Karl Rove. And the Pentagon bombed the Pentagon.
All of these insane conspiracy theories make perfect sense when you realize liberals are people who are clinically dead -- from the neck up.
Regarding Iraq, libbies have made it a habit to complain, no matter what happens over there. During the invasion, Saddam's army got crushed in record time and Baghdad fell faster than Biden takes to formulate a question, so Democrats spent a month complaining about the Baghdad museum being looted (a claim later shown to be another media fiction). Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey predicted thousands of dead Americans just in the initial thrust, which didn't happen either, but all we heard about was the Baghdad museum. The predicted ecological disasters, the Scud missile attacks on Israel, massive refugee flows into Jordan, all-out war between Turks and Kurds and al-Qaeda strikes on U.S. soil as payback for removing Saddam didn't happen either, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BAGHDAD MUSEUM?????? Ummmmmm???
Under the 'brutal' American 'occupation,' Iraq has had three free elections, with huge turnout -- but! Saddam got 100% turnout. Iraq has a new constitution -- but, it doesn't guarantee the 'right' to federally-funded abortion. Saddam's little darlings, Uday and Qusay, get nailed soon after the invasion -- but, we haven't captured Saddam. Saddam gets captured soon afterward -- but, we haven't bagged al-Zarqawi, the real biggie orchestrating all the suicide bombings. Al-Zarqawi gets bagged -- but, we haven't captured Osama. Al-Zarqawi was no biggie.
So now it's Saddam's hanging that has liberals acting hysterically -- like they're at the end of their rope. Yes, Saddam fed humans (feet first) into food processors for hamburger meat, but he didn't taunt them. Or make them feel uncomfortable. Not even before hurling them from 10-story buildings. Strict 'No Taunting' rule.
Liberals express shock that Saddam's executioners were unruly. For almost 24 years, rape and torture and tongue-slicing and people-shredding were deeply ingrained in the culture by Saddam, so it's a real mystery why his executioners weren't splendidly decorous.
To me, the worst aspect of the grainy cell-phone footage was that it was grainy. Clearer picture next time, please? With Saddam's half brother and some other former head honcho next at the gallows, Iraqis will get the hang of it, eventually.
The New York Times predicted a huge backlash -- possibly even including terrorism on U.S. soil -- from Saddam's execution, but so far the "huge backlash" amounts to the smell of natural gas in New York and a package of sprinkler parts in the Port of Miami.
Libbies won't admit it but the element of Saddam's hanging they really hated wasn't the leaked cell-phone video nor the taunts but the part where it wasn't George Bush wearing the noose.
And just when al-Qaeda and the Democrats thought they had Bush at the end of his rope regarding Iraq, he comes out swinging -- calling for more troops. Georgia runaway bride look-alike, Nancy Pelosi, was all over TV on Sunday demanding that we cut and run -- or else. Or else we'll have hearings! Complain really loud. We'll snipe. Write another strongly-worded letter. Bombard Bush with spam e-mail.
Democrats insist America has already lost the war, but Saddam, Uday, Qusay and al-Zarqawi couldn't be reached for comment.
Bush refuses to be a "good Republican" and lose a war for Democrats, and the big bucks going to fight the war gum up Pelosi's plan to buy more votes with Nancy-State handouts. Hard to have a bigger Nancy-State without the money.
Regarding tactics, Harry Reid says the surge is not going to work. Joe Biden says the surge is not going to work. The New York Times says the surge is not going to work. But what if talk that the surge is not going to work itself doesn't work? That is, 'doesn't work' in the sense that Bush doesn't back off. The surge is going to happen and there's nothing Nancy Pelosi "can" do about it. There's nothing the Democrats "can" do about it. Sure, they can pull the plug on the troops, shove the whole Iraq budget into William Jefferson's freezer, but they won't. They don't have the cojones. So they're left making silly noises about holding hearings to appease their party's psychotic base. Hearings. Big friggin' deal. In a battle of political will between Bush and the Democrats, the good money is on Bush.
And on the basis of Bush's Iraq command staff shakeup -- Adm. William Fallon to CentCom; Army Lt. Gen. Dave Petraeus, incoming chief commander in Iraq -- more than just 'quelling violence' in Baghdad could be in the works. While Bush's got the idiot media focused on Baghdad, he might be laying the groundwork for the real action -- just across the border, in Iran.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
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