On Saddam

As you know, Saddam was recently executed. Here are my thought on the matter. My impotent rage.

Saddam was not a good guy, really. He was responsible for some pretty atrocious things. A lot of death and suffering took place simply because Saddam wised it so. That said, execution was a trerrible idea for many reasons.

No human has the right ot end another human's life, even if the other human is genocidal. The people who sentanced Saddm to death are not any worse than Saddam himself.

Saddam was captured and killed not because of the Kurds he gassed, the US government could not care lessabout that. Saddam was captured and killed because of the texas tea running under his soil.

Most of the people who were all for Saddam being killed had no idea what he stood for or what he did until CNN and Fox News summed it up on execution day. The government told the American people he was an evil man, and they believed it without question.

Not to mention the fact that civil unrest in Iraq will reach levels nobody, not even the insurgents, could have expected. More people will die in Iraq because of Bush than because of Saddam.

Saddam's execution is the characterising symbol of this wasted venture and likely represents a complete change in its direction.