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and one sick old man who can't hurt anybody any more.
Let's try to keep things in perspective.
Our country's soul is sick unto death, with lies, torture, vengeance, murder, greed, hypocrisy, militaristic strutting, meanness, sadism, callousness, neglect, secrecy, powermongering, war profiteering, massive theft, spying, blackmail, dirty tricks, fear, religious hypocrisy, monstrous corporate monopolies gobbling up all resources, property, wealth and power, usury, looting of pension funds, contempt for the poor, medical profiteering, lack of decency, lack of compassion, the filth of political campaign contributions ($3 billion for these elections, much of it going to the same corporate news monopolies that shovel propaganda at us day in and day out), and all manner of moral and political corruption at the top.
The ghoulish prospect of Saddam Hussein hanging from a rope suits this morally decrepit regime, and the rightwing billionaires and corporate moguls who have inflicted it upon us. What a fitting image for the charnel house they have made of Iraq.
We are a better country than this. We are a better people than this. They have insulted and degraded us enough. Enough!
George Bush making fun of the pleas for mercy of another human being, sentenced to death in Texas--that may be all that remains of this era. That may be what the future will stare back upon in disbelief.
The soul of our once great democracy, with all of its magnificent accomplishments in civil and human rights, in decency and compassion, in scientific wonders and education, in religious and racial tolerance--the inspiration of the world--come to this: a president who makes fun of the dying, a rightwing dittohead who mocks the sick, a bad old man hanging by his broken neck, choking to death, his rickety bones shuddering as his life is snuffed out.
Is this what we have become? Has American become a snuff film? That's what these sick, greedy people would have you believe. Let us hope that Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging is their last gasp at trying to convince us of it.
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