Wasn’t it? I don’t know how ANYONE who read the article can even think any way except death penalty. To those who have not read the article...go do it. Find it and read it. Read it all. See what happened to those two girls. Read how it was them against the group who attacked them. Read. Read. Read. Read what they did. I cannot imagine anyone reading it and not being totally enraged and physically ill. The only punishment is to put this animal to death where he will never have an opportunity to do this to anyone again. Nice guy huh? All those guys against two girls? Nice guys. Strong guys. Brave guys...oh yeah. Too bad they didn’t go up against some strong, really good all around good guys and fight. No, they picked on two innocent young woman, raped, tortured, murdered and then kicked them to death too and strangled them. This is one of the most disgusting, horrendous crimes I have ever read about. The fact this case has to even be discussed says a lot about where we are in this sick, pathetic world. The fact our own President has intervened makes me even sicker and more ashamed than ever. God help them all.
The brutality perpetrated on them is disturbing. I only read the article once, that was enough for me.
But if innocent or even guilty Americans incarcerated overseas were mistreated or wrongfully executed for want of access to American consular services, we would be rightfully indignant. If an American, were held in prison in Saudi Arabia for distributing Bibles and was sentenced to death, we would need some way to negotiate for his release or the reduction of his sentence. We would all be slamming Bush if he did not do so.
I am not defending Bush's decision on this one, but I am suggesting that he had to consider his duty to protect American citizens held overseas. Since that is a possibility, I would prefer to defer judgment.