Comments on: Saddam To Hang For War Crimes

Clashes, Celebrations As Former Iraqi President Is Sentenced To Death

[mrharge]

I think that it will still take a long time for things to get better over there.

[joesal1988]

"Former Representative Studd's (a Democrat) actually had *** with a page and never left Congress. The worst he got was a censure."

Posted by ressigmann at 02:21 PM : Nov 05, 2006

I agree, Foley got a raw deal. I really don't have a problem with these indiscretions. What's happening in DC is not any worse than what goes on in your typical suburbia.

My problem is when bad decisions involve young men and women dying for them. It gets worse when it is based on lies.

The day I will believe in Bush's sincerity is when he sends both Jenna and Barbara into Iraq. It's so easy to stay the course when you can send OPK (other people's kids) to fight your war.

[heetseeker]

Saddam's verdict is good news but is it just another blue-riband milestone upon which the administration will hang their hopes of a reduction in the blood-letting?

Dont forget the other key "turning points" in Iraq over the past few years...

1) Saddam's sons Uday & Qusay killed by US troops (2003)
2) Saddam discovered in a spider hole (2003)
3) Coalition Provisional authority handover to "sovereign" government of Ayad Allawi (2004)
3) Democratic election in Iraq brings Al-Jafaari to power (2005)
4) Constitutional referendum (2005)
5) Second democratic elections bring Al-Maliki to power (2005)
6) Abu Musab al-zarqawi killed (2006)
7) Saddam condemned to hang (2006)

My goodness, Saddam's conviction comes as such a surprise and right on the eve of our elections! Of course, I'm sure the Bush Admininstration didn't have anything to do with that. If the Bush Administration were as good at managing the war as they are at manipulating the media, we might have seen a different outcome over there. But that's wishful thinking because an intelligent president who truly has a feel for world affairs would have known from the start that an incursion into an Arab land would be met with the upmost hostility and loathing, creating more terrorists.

[ressigmann]

its rather interesting that some of the militaries highest reenlistment rates occur among the troops in Iraq

[norwalk25]

This is stupid timing for the verdict. Now many American troops will die bc of this verdict. Their lives are not worth Saddam's death.

[ressigmann]

to joesal1988

Former Representative Studd's (a Democrat) actually had *** with a page and never left Congress. The worst he got was a censure.

[joesal1988]

"since the Democrats gave up morality for politics about 20 years ago I'd say the Republicans are just trying to play catch-up"

Posted by ressigmann at 02:00 PM : Nov 05, 2006

Doing it very admirably too.

But somehow morality that involves young willing interns, just to take one example, is IMHO, not quite in the same ballpark as sending young men and women to die in a useless war.

[ressigmann]

to joesal1988

since the Democrats gave up morality for politics about 20 years ago I'd say the Republicans are just trying to play catch-up

[ressigmann]

Before you call President Bush stupid for refering to America as a democracy, you should remember that every Democrat I have ever heard of has made the same mistake. With reguard to the Presidents education, you seem to have forgotten to capitalize "America" (a proper name) and it's Cheney not Chaney. Also we are a Republic founded with democratic princilpes.

[joesal1988]

"He is a conservative not a liberal, hence his policies ..."

Posted by ressigmann at 01:25 PM : Nov 05, 2006

This is not about conservate versus liberal. It's about morality, about warmongering and profiteering, about lying to the country, about senseless deaths.

I am an independent and just voted for my local Republican candidates for mayor and sheriff but when it comes to the House and Congress, it's anybody but Republicans! Why? because they have forsakened morality for politics.

[news_force_5]

Oh great, well all were really doing is making Iraq mad. We need to be compromising with them and send our people home, back to there loved ones. As a concerned american I think this is the worst we can do. We dont need to sink to there level and kill someone of their kind. And they dont need to be killing our kind. George Bush needs to due something, instead of getting told the dumbest things to say by Chaney. Bush is a fake and we all know it, he is lazy. I can see why we voted for Bush over Kerry but come on the least he can do is repay us for voting for him. He needs to go back to kindergarden and we just get a military leader, who went to law school, and can actually use his common sense and intellect. Then america will be happy. And Bush keeps saying we are a democracy, were not, has he looked in the dictionary lately, a democracy is everyone votes for our laws. A republic is people who vote on representatives to make those laws. My son told me this and he is in 7th grade. I checked it and he is right. My son also stated he needs to check the Pledge of Allegiance. "I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United Stated of America, and to the REPUBLIC, who which it stand, one nation under god, indivisble, with liberty and justice for all" Stupid Bush presidents are for smart people.

[ressigmann]

There seem to be an incredible number of people with serious anger management issues when it comes to President Bush. He is a conservative not a liberal, hence his policies (incidentally just because he does not do what liberals want does not mean he is morally wrong). Liberals believe that truth is relative, and by this standard President Bush is still ok (before spouting off about how liberals don't think truth is relative "what is the basis for your truth if it is not" since most liberals only give lip service to the Bible if that). You (liberals) hate President Bush because he has high moral standards and is not afraid to stand up for what he believes even when it is not popular with you. Has it occured to any of you that perhaps people like you have wasted so much of President Bush's time with these useless tirades that he has less time to focus on important issues like Iraq.

[radiob-2009]

Okay which Bin Laden is it?If they had captured the Bin Laden who was responsible for 9/11 then they must be holding him for a preelction surprise.I doubt that all intel and I have friend in the intel community beleive he is in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border in the mountains.My uncle works at the pentagon,my aunt has faithfully worked at the white house since Kennedy and I do not know in what capacity as she never speaks of it but she has law degree from harvard.

[joesal1988]

Wonderful timing, as usual. The republicans sure have a knack of making everything work for them.

One great headline, but at what cost to the country and the families who lost loved ones?

I say, commute his sentence, put him back in charge of that godforsaken place (they deserve dictators like him), so we can bring back our brave young men and women.

[j-whitman]

me too,, things to do today,,talk later

[radiob-2009]

Gona go and watch slither catch everyone later.I will be voting democrat even though I am an independent.I will give the democratic party a chance and if they fail then I and others will push for campaign finace reform ,term limits and a new third party that represent all americans I already have members of both parties that are helping draft policies that represent everday americans.See you all later.

[wayfedup]

gotta be gone for a little bit, fellas, keep it going...

[j-whitman]

radiobob,,,, it was MSNBC on the net yesterday,or the day before, I haven't checked today to see if it's still there,, it started out USA Helped Catch Bin Laden of The Desert,,, not Ossama,,,, Just an Algerian terror leader from way Back,, goes in on our North African operations

[wayfedup]

radiob, that'll be fine w/ me if RonnieHm doesn't vote... it would be for th' repubs if he did