Sleepless in Baghdad and Shameless in D.C.
Georgie would be peeing in his pants and running to daddy for protection, that is the disgrace of it all . I give you the President of the USA
...How would Bush react to being sentenced to prison, or to death? Here is how Saddam Hussein reacted to this sham US-sponsored court: Upon hearing his verdict, a visibly shaken Saddam called out "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live the nation!" Saddam has told the court he wants to face a military firing squad, not the hangman...
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With the Dujail verdict in, the media has started to mention the other trial, the one for the Anfal campaign in which many Kurds were killed. I'm not here to excuse anything that happened, just to explore what did happen. On tonight's news I heard the newscaster casually refer, without attribution, to "200,000" Kurds killed during the Anfal campaign. Well, of course that's interesting, since most of the media haven't even mentioned the Johns Hopkins report of 655,000 (or "more than 480,000," as I prefer) dead because of the American invasion of Iraq. So naturally I ask the question I tend to ask - where did that number "200,000" come from? Does it have anywhere near the credibility of the "655,000" number?...
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