Tag: "Saddam Hussein"
From Nightmare to Museum Exhibit
This is a positive sign, I think. On the two-year anniversary of Saddam’s death by hanging, Iraq is preparing to open a new museum that will allow Iraqis to see up close such macabre mementos of mass executions, torture, and other atrocities committed in Saddam’s decades-long rule. … It will showcase torture devices such as [...]
A Shoe is an Emblem but a Murder by an Islamist is an Isolated Event
The left side of the blogosphere is dancing around this AP article about the Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist and how he is being hailed as a hero and is emblematic of Bush-hatred in the Middle East. Which leads me to a question. When an Islamist kills a few people and screams “Allah Ackbar” when he does [...]
Iraqi Reporters Make Rookie Mistake, Treat President Bush with Respect
Helen Thomas and the entire reporting staff of MS-NBC were all accounted for at the time, so I’m pretty sure the identification of this man is correct. An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at [...]
Thank You, Mr. President, for Holding Fast to Your Values
Though I’ve not liked a lot of what President Bush has done, this statement endears me to him greatly. “I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, [...]
The AP Discovers the Bush Doctrine, Pronounces It Desireable
I’d like to formally welcome the Associated Press to 2002. See, when we went into Iraq to topple the despicable Saddam Hussein, one of the things President Bush was saying building a stable Iraq was something that was squarely within our national interest, insofar as a stable Arab democracy would exert a huge amount of [...]
Now They’re Just Lying About Her
The next time someone tells me there’s no bias in the media, I swear I’m going to laugh right in their face. It wasn’t bad enough that last night Charles Gibson spent perhaps the most important interview he’ll have all year quizzing a grown woman like he was Art Linkletter on “Chidren Say the Darndest [...]
Ace vs Robert Scheer, Drooling Moron. Guess Who Wins?
When Ace is on, he is the blogging equivalent of a stiletto that slides between the ribs of the moronic then explodes in a thermonuclear blast of awesome. The object of his wit (and that is not a position to be coveted) is Robert Scheer, journalist and Sooper Genius, who thinks he has the whole [...]
That’s What You Said