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Editorial: Dog Eat Dog

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 30 December 2006
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Justice International USA

Crimes against Iraqi people must not go unpunished

BAGHDAD, IRAQ — (OfficialWire) — 12/30/06 — The rightful President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was put to death in the early hours on Saturday while lawyers for the ousted dictator tried in vain to use U.S. courts to prevent his transfer from American authority—to Iraqi control—thus hoping to prevent his murder.

Those efforts, while admirable, were doomed from the start. There is little justice left for Americans in the United States, much less for a man who holds the secrets of America’s involvement in his purported ’crimes against humanity’.

We have now witnessed what happens when one brutal dictator kills another brutal dictator. One is dead and now we, the people of the world, must hope for the other to meet the same fate.

George W. Bush is responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. The fact that he has also killed thousands of his own people and ignored the cries of others while they died, merely proves that he is no better than Saddam.

There are some who believe that the U.S. saved Iraq from a tyrant—though I am not one of them—but who will come to America’s rescue? Who will pull ‘the shrub’ from his hole?

 http://www.officialwire.com/main.ph...

Forum posts

  • In response to Greg Smith’s editorial, "Dog Eat Dog":

    Yesterday, just as I had anticipated, the "commercial" (I won’t dignify them with the adjective "mainstream") American news media began their feeding frenzy—always 24/7, little screen-sized, heavily-made-up talking heads going at it round the clock—vis-a-vis the hanging of Saddam. And, always, in America these days, "we" search for our keys where the light is, under the lamp, as opposed to where we lost them, way out there in the dark. Saddam is not "the enemy," the "shadow-self," our true dark side. We shouldn’t be talking, and talking, and talking about Saddam. It is, instead, Saddam’s twin, the dictator who was NOT hanged yesterday—or "The Decider, if he wants to use that euphemism—who deserves our 24/7 scrutiny. But Americans, who always elect (or accept, meekly, by coup) the leader they deserve, are looking frantically in what little light they have, for keys to meaning that lie so, so elsewhere.
    ...
    Over the course of Mr. Bush’s two-term presidency, we have been lied to by our leaders and waged an immoral war based upon those lies; we have allowed a genocide to be committed in our names in Iraq, simultaneously closing down VA hospitals which might have served our so, so many maimed soldiers, now returning home from battle; we have opened our brimming coffers to finance thieves while young soldiers go without armor; we have stood by while the antiquities of an ancient civilization are vandalized—oh yes, the entire country has been whistling in the dark.
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    It was, at last, easy to wrest Saddam from his spider-hole, the mad dictator from his literal nest of denial. But, in Washington, our president hides on in his own little nest. I always picture him reading "My Pet Goat," upside down, looking right and left, in dim, sweating perplexity, to his neo-con handlers, "What do I do now, Dick? What do I say now?" But the neo-cons, as evidenced in an article in the latest issue of "Vanity Fair," have fled Bush in droves. As responsible as the little man from Texas, they now leave him to face the music on his own. Saddam’s rats fled his sinking ship as well. But Saddam HAS faced the music, his countrymen compelling at least that moment of justice. When, when, will the man who brought this war upon us all be called to account? When will the men I did not elect be compelled, in American and in international courts of law, to answer for their war crimes? When hell freezes over, if I know the way of the world. . .
    ...
    Meanwhile, Greg Smith and I sit at our computer screens and rage, rage against the dark. But the dark, I think, Greg also resides within us now, within each American heart that has permitted these atrocities—the two electoral coups, the war in Iraq, and etc. ad nauseam. We need, instead of writing, in addition to writing, to be screaming in the streets. In the 1970’s, I went to the streets to rail against the Vietnam War. Now, although tired and grey, I need—have needed for years—to be out there again with my bullhorn and placards. Impeach this president and his lying lackeys and handlers! Account for the inoocent Iraqi and American dead! Pay back our squandered billions! Expose every last lie in Washington!
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    And, for me, not the quiet noose in the dark, hidden room. I want "the evil-doers" in DC dragged out into the streets to meet their fates in the light. Maybe after that, there’ll be some hope of this country regaining its lost—lost so long ago—sanity. . .of finding its keys in the light and the dark.
    Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

  • Mr Bosh has caused much more deaths in IRAQ than Saddam did. It is ironic that Bosh claim that he is spreading democracy and freedom in the middle east. He has spent more than 400 bilion $ for nothing but the destruction of every thing in IRAQ !.

  • Greg Lloyd Smith (Google his name for full story) is now serving 16 months in Swansea (Wales) Prison for entering the UK under false pretence. It’s alleged he will be extradited to the USA at the end of his term at the request of the FBI. What goes round comes round Greg!