When All Else Fails...Riverbend, Nov 5

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Baghdad Burning

... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

When All Else Fails...
… Execute the dictator. It’s that simple. When American troops are being killed by the dozen, when the country you are occupying is threatening to break up into smaller countries, when you have militias and death squads roaming the streets and you’ve put a group of Mullahs in power- execute the dictator.

Everyone expected this verdict from the very first day of the trial. There was a brief interlude when, with the first judge, it was thought that it might actually be a coherent trial where Iraqis could hear explanations and see what happened. That was soon over with the prosecution’s first false witness. Events that followed were so ridiculous; it’s difficult to believe them even now.

The sound would suddenly disappear when the defense or one of the defendants got up to speak. We would hear the witnesses but no one could see them- hidden behind a curtain, their voices were changed. People who were supposed to have been dead in the Dujail incident were found to be very alive.

Judge after judge was brought in because the ones in court were seen as too fair. They didn’t instantly condemn the defendants (even if only for the sake of the media). The piece de resistance was the final judge they brought in. His reputation vies only that of Chalabi- a well-known thief and murderer who ran away to Iran to escape not political condemnation, but his father’s wrath after he stole from the restaurant his father ran.

So we all knew the outcome upfront (Maliki was on television 24 hours before the verdict telling people not to ‘rejoice too much’). I think what surprises me right now is the utter stupidity of the current Iraqi government. The timing is ridiculous- immediately before the congressional elections? How very convenient for Bush. Iraq, today, is at its very worst since the invasion and the beginning occupation. April 2003 is looking like a honeymoon month today. Is it really the time to execute Saddam?

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1. K&R for Riverbend! Please TRY to stay safe & remember...

...there are PATRIOTIC AMERICANS who are doing everything they can to neuter the men who have caused your country so much grief!

I voted for YOU, Riverbend!:patriot:

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2. More proof that the date was rigged

originally sentencing was due in mid October then changed to election week. Not only that, but the sentencing AND verdict AND denial of choice of execution preceded the release of the verdict brief, a mammoth file to be given out in a week or two- maybe. Also the swiftness of the execution runs into a second trial.(courtesy of Lionel, AAR)

Bushies have no trouble insulting your intelligence and telegraphing their moves. Either you are stupid
enough not to see it or you are supposed to quail, intimidated, by the awesome lawless might of fascism.

And it is another fizzle. This entire strategy is a duplicate of 2002 so much so that Bush is still out campaigning, to absorb the glory of triumph and remind the GOP it is beholden to him. The backlash from Democrats is roundhouse one. What the GOP will do to its in-house dictators will be the right uppercut.

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3. Since there is doubt over the fairness of this trial----there will always be

doubt about the outcome. We had the opportunity to manage it better-for fairnes, but we choose not to.