Oh, PLEASE Department
Look, I was critical as hell during the war and continue to be critical. But this is just retarded.
The al-Ahram weekly, a newspaper based in Cairo, deems the display of Uday and Qusay Hussein's corpses as "as disgusting display." "Whatever crime they [Saddam's sons] committed, is beside the point. Killing them was a crime, a murder, it was sacrilegious because the body belongs to God not to people."
Do please shut up. During the fighting, I got almost all of my graphic pictures from Arab and Muslim sources, whether it was al Jazeera, Arab News, Jordan Times, Dawn, or any number of publications. These papers were happy to show pictures of slaughtered Americans and slaughtered Iraqis when it served their purposes. Throwing this happy crappy about "the bodies belong to God, what sacrilege" just makes you look like a bunch of hypocrites. Waaah, cry me a fucking river.
On the other hand, that does NOT mean to say that Charles Krauthammer isn't an idiot, which he amply demonstraters in this column.
We had no wish to take Uday and Qusay alive. We did the correct thing in giving them one chance to surrender. But no more. The moment we captured them we would have been responsible for their care and feeding forever. They were in their thirties. It would have meant that for the next 50 years the Hussein dynasty would have been kept alive -- by us.
Well, first of all Chuck, who's this "we" you keep talking about? Last I heard, you were a wheelchair-bound armchair warrior. You had as much to do with killing Uday and Qusay as I did formulating Eagles' strategy for last year's Super Bowl.
Second of all, as Saddam Hussein's closest henchmen, taking Uday and Qusay alive might have helped in our thus-far fruitless search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Intense questioning or sending them to one of our allies that permit torture (something I belive you've advocated) might have helped Mr. Bush's case a bit don't you think?
Or is it better that they're dead because they would add to the chorus of captured Iraqis that have said there were no WMD?
Look, I was critical as hell during the war and continue to be critical. But this is just retarded.
The al-Ahram weekly, a newspaper based in Cairo, deems the display of Uday and Qusay Hussein's corpses as "as disgusting display." "Whatever crime they [Saddam's sons] committed, is beside the point. Killing them was a crime, a murder, it was sacrilegious because the body belongs to God not to people."
Do please shut up. During the fighting, I got almost all of my graphic pictures from Arab and Muslim sources, whether it was al Jazeera, Arab News, Jordan Times, Dawn, or any number of publications. These papers were happy to show pictures of slaughtered Americans and slaughtered Iraqis when it served their purposes. Throwing this happy crappy about "the bodies belong to God, what sacrilege" just makes you look like a bunch of hypocrites. Waaah, cry me a fucking river.
On the other hand, that does NOT mean to say that Charles Krauthammer isn't an idiot, which he amply demonstraters in this column.
We had no wish to take Uday and Qusay alive. We did the correct thing in giving them one chance to surrender. But no more. The moment we captured them we would have been responsible for their care and feeding forever. They were in their thirties. It would have meant that for the next 50 years the Hussein dynasty would have been kept alive -- by us.
Well, first of all Chuck, who's this "we" you keep talking about? Last I heard, you were a wheelchair-bound armchair warrior. You had as much to do with killing Uday and Qusay as I did formulating Eagles' strategy for last year's Super Bowl.
Second of all, as Saddam Hussein's closest henchmen, taking Uday and Qusay alive might have helped in our thus-far fruitless search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Intense questioning or sending them to one of our allies that permit torture (something I belive you've advocated) might have helped Mr. Bush's case a bit don't you think?
Or is it better that they're dead because they would add to the chorus of captured Iraqis that have said there were no WMD?
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