Posted on 01/16/2007 7:36:07 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
WTF? And that is going to help the situation how? OMG
I'm with you! WTF!
Why did he feel he needed to comment about it in the first place, if reports are accurate??
WHAT!
because its the truth.
and it puts pressure on the Maliki government - start conducting yourself like a GOVERNMENT.
I don't care. Sometimes revenge is appropriate.
Maybe he'd prefer if the hangmen held their pinkeys up as they pulled the lever.
For Saddam's murdering and torturing countless thousands of ordinary Iraqis one can hardly blame them from extracting revenge as well as justice.
I agree. For the President to make no comment at all would have been huge mistake. To comment and say he thought it went hunky-dory would also be a huge mistake. He spoke the truth, which is exactly what I have come to expect and RESPECT about the man.
Iraq does need to grow up. Those executions were not conducted in a very dignified manner.
The important thing is that they were done, and nobody seemed to suffer any unnecessary pain.
But they get a zero for style points. And those do count.
the administration knew the score 15 minutes after the execution - that's why they hurried to make sure the body was properly handled, flying it to Tikrit.
in any case, this is behind us now. and I think this comment from the president sends the message to Maliki - YOU ARE A GOVERNMENT NOW, ACT LIKE ONE. and this is going to be the key concept iraq is going to have to demonstrate they can accomplish (or not) during this "surge", so we might as well set the tone early.
I agree. It's time for Iraq, with Maliki at the helm, to either do or die. This is their last chance. If they fail, it's their failure not ours anymore.
I think he got off easy.
For Iraqis these days, that was dignified.
This does not help his cause.
I personally thought Saddams execution would have been much more of a circus. I thought it was about as dignified as it could be if it was to be conducted by Iraqis.
The whole idea of a western-style trial of Saddam was ill-considered, and badly executed. The idea of a western-style execution of sentence was, well, badly executed.
We should have shot the SOB in his spider hole and had done with it.
What we got instead was a farcial show trial, and an amateurish hanging.
The only thing that amazes me about any of this is that President Bush is surprised by any of it. And the fact that he apparently is surprised by it is more than a little disturbing.
He needs to start paying more attention.
I agree. What has possessed him to make a statement like that right now? He should have kept his mouth shut. This only makes him look weak and wishy washy.
I don't get it. Republicans never speak up when DIMs are slandering them in public. When they do make public statements, it's baloney like this. This party has a death wish.
I believe, and this is one of my major critcisms of Bush's tenure as President, that he has never understood that the President is the leader of his party as well as the country.
WTF??? GWB.
This is becoming more and more bizarre and unbelievable as time rolls on.
Saddam was a sadistic torturer. Nailing him to a cross or hanging drawling and quartering him were too good for him.
Now Bush is having second thoughts?
I am beginning to wonder about him.
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