Spare us the pity for Iraq's ex-tyrant (some beautiful liberal-slamming from foreign press)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | December 18, 2003 | Miranda Devine

[GeronL]

he'll feel free to push his hard-right agenda,

WHAT hard right agenda?? I wish he had a conservative domestic agenda period!

[dagnabbit]

Good Howard

Bad Howard

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So, giving Saddam the White Glove medical care treatment is a BAD thing???

Nooo. I was referring more to the message that the Vatican (not some Cardinal) has been putting out along the lines of what KoffeeCup Anan was spewing about executing the scumbag.

[So Cal Rocket]

According to the foreign press, this is what we should be doing for Saddam:

[chimera]

You know, actually, all the wacky anti-Bush crap, like Rep McDermott's stupid statement, or Albright's comment, is a good thing for the GOP politically....yup, it's red meat to the hard core left/lib Dems, but they were never gonna vote for Bush anyways..but, as it continues, and escalates, it'll be enough to push some in the middle to Bush...and could tip the balance in some key Senate races..

Probably correct. That Howard Dean hatefest out west the other week was a good example. The language and tone of that was just beyond the pale. It's going to turn off a lot of fair-minded people who otherwise might (mistakenly) be inclined to give Dean and The Rats the benefit of doubt. I don't know about you, but when I hear these Deaniacs and people like John Kerry mindlessly spewing profanity in an attempt to appear hip and edgy, it's an immediate tune-out. It's like they have nothing of real substance to say, so the turn up the volume of the noise with profanity.

The Rats are really in danger of overplaying their hand with this negative spin on the capture of Saddam thing. Especially in view of the fact that it was they who made such a big deal out of it when he was still at large. It was like, "Where's Saddam? If we don't get him we haven't won anything.", and then when we get him, they seem to be saying, "Oh. Big deal. Nevermind...". Well, geez, does it matter, or not? They are so transparent...

[cmak9]

"That which you do unto the least of my brothers, you do unto me."

My response is this: It is better to give a public oral and head lice examination to someone, than to feed them feet first into a shredder. I believe Jesus would agree.

[EdReform]

Ping

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Interesting. This newspaper is nicknamed the Saddam Times by Australian conservatives!

Miranda Richardson is their Safiresque token conservative.

[headsonpikes]

Why the surprise about the Cardinal?

Arbitrary authority loves its own.

[whereasandsoforth]

You are right. Senator Clinton meant President Bush would not face another election in 2008. But I must say President Clinton's second term was not freed from that concern. He and his wife were soncerned about HER facing the voters in her senate run and future presidential elections. That's the difference and that's what chaps Senator Clinton's sagging butt at this time.

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Your reply was very well thoughtout and correct, but I think it would have been more applicable had the broadcast images actually shown any sort of indignity being leveled on Hussein.

It showed him receiving medical care that he was willingly and eagerly accepting after living in a hole in the ground for weeks. That's what made the comments so absurd. It is also why I suspect the emotion behind the comments was not the pure love and forgiveness you cited, but more of an expression of the cardinal's anti-Americanism, though that is obvious speculation on my part.

[Gargantua]

""I felt pity to see this man destroyed, [the military] looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures."

Really?

The Vatican could have spared hundreds of innocent American children the horror of sexual predation at the hands of their pedophilic priests by removing those perverts from their cassocks, but instead, they just shuffled them around to other churches to keep the matter swept under the rug.

This lame-assed Cardinal's proclamations of "pity" and "compassion" are not only hideously misguided, they are also a day late and a few million dollars in damages short.

Pontificate thyself, you Vatican pervert puppets. World history will record you as the evil, ineffective, marginalized cult which you have become.

;-/ ;-/

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!

[Ichneumon]

I would surmise that the Vatican is trying to send a very old message that most people on the planet seem unable to grasp.

You would surmise wrongly. The Cardinal's screed was a grasping attempt to slam the United States on the thinnest of excuses.

[Romulus]

I suspect the emotion behind the comments was not the pure love and forgiveness you cited, but more of an expression of the cardinal's anti-Americanism,

Perhaps the cardinal himself does not fully comprehend the significance of what he said about feeling pity. This is how prophecy frequently works, and it's certainly how the Church works, providing spiritual tools by which the faithful utter profound truths accidentally. Athletes sometimes play better than their class, don't they? God uses foolish sinful people to do his work in this world becasue that's by and large the only kind available. Clean water can flow through rusty pipes.

[TheSpottedOwl]

In defense of The Vatican, it was just the utterings of some lone Italian cardinal. It wasn't a proclamation, though who knows what they might say if it was.

This is true. People also have to understand that Pope John Paul II is in very bad health. He may not even know that this idiot is spouting nonsense.

[The UnVeiled Lady]

In defense of The Vatican, it was just the utterings of some lone Italian cardinal.

I have heard this is the next guy in line to be Pope.

I am worried about what he said, it should have been more compassionate to the thousands that Saddam had killed.

[UCANSEE2]

"That which you do unto the least of my brothers, you do unto me."

And...... We captured him, and had him checked out physically (concern for his health) regardless to the crimes we know he committed. We didn't shoot him in the back of the head. Capturing a killer, and allowing him to be tried by his own people, I believe , shows our troops and CiC put moral and religous values first.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You would surmise wrongly.

Wouldn't be the first time.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

BUMP!