Saddam Has Been Sentenced to Death
Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging for his crimes against humanity.
The United States and our friends are the reason why this moment is possible.
Will this event even matter to the American People when they wake up today? I think it is a deeply significant moment in the history of the Muslim Middle East, but it could have been more. If this Administration and the Big Media machine that has dogged it so constantly had done more —in their own spheres— to make this trial and judgement relevant to this country, it might have made this war a better cause in the minds of the American People. But Big Media has sabotaged that effort. And the Bush Administration, in its contemptible and inexplicable silences, has allowed that to happen.
I don’t say that the press answers to this government. I only mean that Bush has failed to engage the public through the press and through the bully pulpit.
Anyway, hang the brutes. If Saddam wants the dignity of a firing squad, deny him that. Hang the bastard instead. Hang him in the middle of Baghdad on a giant scaffolding. Televise it. Let these savages flip their lids over it and get it all out of their systems.
Somebody needs to walk away from this war a winner. I say it should be us. I say it should be a pacified Iraq.
