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Friday, December 29. 2006

Will they sell postcards of the hanging?

Saddam will be hung tonight at 10 EST. Michelle has a good round-up of comments. Jesse Jackson is shedding tears, which is puzzling to me. Rick Moran's somber comments are excellent.

No death is an occasion for joy among civilized peoples (except maybe Fidel Castro's), but is it not odd that executions are momentous events, but mass murders by brutal dictators are not?

In the horrendous words of Joe Stalin, "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." Wrong...so wrong.

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 17:17 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Saddam was misunderstood and had a bad childhood. Let us not be cruel like Bushie who has no excuses, save his mother's neck ringed by folds and pearls and his father's thin lips.
#1 pacifist-aggressive on 2006-12-29 19:06 (Reply)
I am genuinely puzzled by people like Jesse Jackson
#2 bird dog on 2006-12-30 07:45 (Reply)
Jesse and his fellow ideologues aspire to Morality and Humanitarism, just not to consistency, strong stomachs and stout heart to be and do what is necessary for morality and humanitarism. That much is clear.
#3 p-a on 2006-12-30 14:40 (Reply)

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