Happy fucking New Year, people. And what a year it’s going to be. The Snarkmaster’s got plenty of tricks up his/her sleeve. (The his/her reference is for the ninnies who keep writing to me about their dopey little theories about who/what I am. Keep guessing, ass-faces.)
Speaking of ass-faces, you gotta love the media attention and complete lack of outrage from the Dems on the grotesque hanging of Saddam Hussein. Oh sure, Saddam was one evil motherfucker, but I thought the good old U.S. of A. was trying to prove how goddamn “civilized” we are to that war-ravaged and hate-filled region?
Sorry, but that ridiculous trial and most obscene hanging scene was anything but civilized. It was barbaric, tragic, cruel, cowardly and over the top unjust. If you don’t believe me, just ask Amnesty International or any of the other numerous international human rights groups who called the whole affair exactly what it was: a sham.
If, like me, you heard the whooping, hollering and celebrating out of the DC area this weekend, it had nothing to do with New Year’s Eve. Nope. Instead, that was the sound of Donald Rumsfeld and his merry men of illegal-warmongering celebrating the fact that Saddam has been killed and, as a result, will be unavailable for their future war crime trials. Saddam, after all, was sitting on a whole heap of evidence that proved how absolutely wonderful Rummy and his friends had been to him over the years. Hell, they even set him up with all those elusive weapons of mass destruction that Saddam so cheerfully used on the Kurds and the Iranians for years and years.
My favorite headline during the Saddam lynching fiasco was from our little hometown paper, the Montepelier-Barre Times Argus. Actually, it was a sub-headline, and it declared that the “U.S. Played a Role” in Saddam’s death sentence. No! Do you really think so? How fucking stupid do they think their readers are? Please, don’t answer that.
Personally, I’d like to know where all these great new Dem leaders are on this issue. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I haven’t heard a peep out of any of them about Saddam’s execution. And if they don’t want to condemn the death penalty – as they should be doing – why couldn’t people like Bernie Sanders, the new self-proclaimed savior of the Senate, find it within himself to condemn the barbaric nature of the hanging scene.
As we’ve all heard by now, the Saddam execution scene was, indeed, as barbaric as it gets; and this, after the U.S. promised to make sure it would be carried out in a “dignified” manner. Or, as should have been added in every news account of such nonsense, as “dignified” as a killing can be.
The U.S., however, couldn’t even prevent the thugs who carried out the death sentence to stop their taunting of Saddam as the noose was tightened on him. They were, as it has been widely reported, chanting the names of his political and religious rivals and telling him to “go to hell.” Oh yeah, real dignified.
Hell, the U.S. couldn’t even prevent the blood-thirsty yahoos from sneaking in their own cell phone cameras to capture the entire death scene – the sound of Saddam’s snapping neck and all – and then post it rather ghoulishly all of the Internet within hours. Feel the dignity.
Sadly, this is just another political/ethical/legal blunder in a long, long line of blunders by President Bush and his obscenely cruel and unjust foray in Iraq. It will most certainly give the growing number of America-haters in the region yet another reason to hate this country. It will put fuel on the political and religious fires that are already raging. And it will mark yet another failed opportunity for the U.S. to have done something right in Iraq, which, in the Snarky Boy’s opinion, should have been to hold Saddam for life in a gesture of true civility and future healing.
Like I said, happy fucking New Year.
