State of an un-nation
If Tony Blair does indeed believe that the death penalty is wrong, why then did he put 600,000 on a very short death row waiting list? If Tony Blair wishes not to be remembered in history as a mass murderer, why did he side with a man now being deserted by conservatives, neocons and conmen who struggle to find an exit strategy of their own?
Yesterday, the greatest tyrant to grace the world in which I have lived was condemned to the same fate that befell hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. The execution of Saddam Hussein will be seen as a victory for George Bush but it's a hollow win in the grand scheme of things. Blair and Bush together have managed to do what Hussein could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. Iraq is being carved into three in the most violent of means by Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. In short, it's imploding.
It's likely that Hussein's body will be buried at an unmarked location in an Iraqi desert. This burying of a head in the sand was seen last week too when the House of Commons voted not to instigate an inquiry into the handling of the war in Iraq. Bush will not be so lucky tomorrow as the Republicans face a dogfight in the mid-terms.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a mop big enough to clean up this mess. What would Obama and David Cameron have done?
Watch blogger Andrew Sullivan and journo/writer Christopher Hitchens talk about Bush and the upcoming election. Via Traveling Tree Frog.
tags:iraq
Published by Colm.
Yesterday, the greatest tyrant to grace the world in which I have lived was condemned to the same fate that befell hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. The execution of Saddam Hussein will be seen as a victory for George Bush but it's a hollow win in the grand scheme of things. Blair and Bush together have managed to do what Hussein could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. Iraq is being carved into three in the most violent of means by Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. In short, it's imploding.
It's likely that Hussein's body will be buried at an unmarked location in an Iraqi desert. This burying of a head in the sand was seen last week too when the House of Commons voted not to instigate an inquiry into the handling of the war in Iraq. Bush will not be so lucky tomorrow as the Republicans face a dogfight in the mid-terms.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a mop big enough to clean up this mess. What would Obama and David Cameron have done?
Watch blogger Andrew Sullivan and journo/writer Christopher Hitchens talk about Bush and the upcoming election. Via Traveling Tree Frog.
tags:iraq
Published by Colm.
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