Posted on 01/04/2007 8:02:08 AM PST by Constitution Day
Hehehehe...
Saddam proved to be some counterweight alright...
A murderous, genocidal, tyrant gets hung after a lengthy trial and an appeal and people are pissed off. The world is totally NUTZ!
Not totally, but at least partly!
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Lileks' piece is quite insightful ... as always.
Putting an end to the Saddam problem?
I thought that was what the noose was for.
Then CNN reports why it was bad that he was executed.
The NY Times laments his passing.
The folks over at NBC are practically in tears that he is gone.
Yet, the folks in the MSN can't understand why people continue to go elsewhere for the news.
I like this line.
The Muslims, we are told, gave us the Zero a thousand years ago, and little much since. We can take heart, however, that science has returned to the Muslim mind; Saddam Hussain finally discovered the Law of Gravity.
Yes, that's what the article meant.
D
Okay, NOW the new year can begin, now that we've had our dose of the inimitable Lileks, LOL!
Thanks so much for the ping! I like how he answers some of the really stupid comments that have been made about Saddam's execution, in his own style.
Thanks again!
The rest of it is fluff. "We put him in power" is simply ignorant and false, as is "Bush is just as bad" and "Saddam was the terrorists' enemy." These are comforting lies - the kiddies will sleep more quietly if they believe there never was a monster under the bed, and never mind the bones and claw marks. He's gone now.
Thanks for the ping!
Great as always.
And the closer:
"... It does not solve the problem of Iraq. But it solved the problem of Saddam."
YEP.
Tyrants in other countries might have felt a pang of unease at his end; all that money, all that power, all those glorious implements of fear and oppression at his disposal, and it still added up to a drop, a jolt, an ignominious yank captured on shaky cellphone video. No doubt tyrants have drawn the correct conclusion, too: Confiscate all the cell phones.
IRAN: SPECIAL POLICE CORPS CHARGED WITH CONTROLLING CELL PHONES
AKI ^
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762301/posts
Posted on 01/04/2007 9:40:51 AM CST by Valin
Tehran, 4 Jan. (AKI) - A special police corps has been officially tasked with checking the cell phones of Iranians and in the past few days plain-clothes officials have started stopping passers-by in Iran's main cities to inspect their mobiles. All text messages and audio or video files considered 'illegal' are erased by the officials from this new corps. In the past few years, cell phones have reportedly become the main means to convey news which would never make it into the government-controlled Iranian media.
News on scandals, jokes on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other political leaders, information on meetings, political assemblies and rallies mainly circulate via cell phones.
(snip)
Do the Mullahs read Lileks? :-)
There's always another problem.
Life..it's just one damn things after another.
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