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MUDLOGGER on December 31, 2006 - 10:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Happy New Year and welcome to the last best year . Ever.

WHY HAS THE PASSING OF SADDAM NOT BEEN MENTIONED HERE?

Forgive typos etc, I am just back from a New Years Colider and so even less than Compos Mentis than usual (so what's different?)

This mornings papers were full of the judicial execution of a tyrant.

Saddam Hussein Al Tikriti was surely one of the worst SOB's on the planet.

Why do I feel that we have not added any kind of value to the sum total of human happiness, knowledge and wisdom by killing him?

Sure, there are many lined up for revenge, and many have just cause.

Lets look at some ''Issues'':

1. SH Al T was an Ally of the USA. 1970 +
2. His ChemWeps came from The USA.(via Germany)
3. The USA was seriously happy with his war against the Iranian Mullahs.
4. SH Al T screwed up by attacking Q8.
5. Even the Q8 thing was forgivable a childrens tantrum over Directionally Drilled Wells, put right by Daddy USA.
6.But going for the Euro and reneging on the Dollar was beyond the pale.
7. Colin Powell was correct: Leave him in place. If he is not in place, civil war and all kinds of sh1t will happen.

So what happens?

SH is removed
Iraq falls into mayhem
A country is destroyed
An entire region is fundamentally less safe and secure. And potentially on the edge of WW III

It could be thus for a generation.

Well done!

Bravisimo!

This morning, you created another Martyr in an already fractured region.

The American Gov has now become so foockyng stupid that they insult the word stupid.

What a way to start a new year....

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step back on January 1, 2007 - 8:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The SH lynching show was timed to coincide precisely with the time that USA passes through the 3 egg shells territory.

Yup folk.
3,000 American troops dead and hardly any notice given to that story.

Why?
Because explicit photos of the SH lynching dominate the MSM stream of consciousness.

You've been played yet again.
Did you notice?

Don't bahhh-there.
The Good Shepherd always leads his flock in the right direction, in the new way forward.

Think my conspiracy oriented ways are worthy of ridicule?

Well how about the New York Times? Are they also stupid for seeing that something was "rushed" in a highly unusual way?

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step back on January 1, 2007 - 8:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

P.S.

Here is some more New York Times insight on the 3 eggshells.

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step back on January 1, 2007 - 9:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

P.P.S.

Sorry folk for the morbid topic on this joyous passage into a "new" year with all "new" techniques for re-painting history.

This quote was too insightful to let pass by:

In this light, it seems that the initial coverage of Saddam's execution has served as a collective ritual hand-washing designed to reassure Americans that they really are the blameless leaders of a cosmic struggle against "evil." And so the answer to the existential question comes into view. Today's mainstream journalism, even "live" TV, is a far cry from the first draft of history. Instead, it functions largely as a transmission of selective history that has been drafted--and airbrushed, and sanitized, and rearranged, and distorted--long before it ever reaches our eyes and ears.

--from CNN and the New York Times Execute a Denial of History

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