Bush wants US troops to die. He had a chance to barter Saddam’s life for a cease in hostilities against US troops and he refused to take it. Bush is a murderer and should pay the Texas price for murder. He deserves no better treatment, or justice, than Saddam got.
from TomPaine
The Wall Street Journal, in a profile of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday, quoted one of his aides saying that part of Maliki’s motivation in speeding Saddam to the gallows was that he feared a “secret deal sparing Mr. Hussein’s life in exchange for a halt to attacks on U.S. troops.” Although some reports, and some of my sources, say that precisely that deal was considered by more sensible administration officials—and why not? why not give Saddam a life sentence as part of a ceasefire agreement with the resistance?—it was never a serious option. Indeed, since the very start of the insurgency in late 2003, the United States has repeatedly rejected the idea of peace talks with the main force of the resistance, including Baath party officials, former army and intelligence officers, the clergy tied to the Association of Muslim Scholars and resistance groups like the 1920 Revolution Brigade and the Islamic Army of Iraq. Now, and so utterly predictably, virtually the entire Sunni population of Iraq is likely to line up foursquare behind the insurgents, making it immeasurably more difficult to ease sectarian and communal warfare.
Now, any chance that Saddam could be used as a bargaining chip to help ease a deal with the insurgents is gone, forever.
Comment from M. Douglas Wray
Time: 1/3/2007, 6:57 pm
The key is to understand that the Chimperor doesn’t WANT the war to end. War = Profits for his pals.
We’ll have to wrench control from his clutching, twitchy fingers.