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My own sentiment has been voiced several times over on this thread, but I'll echo those who see the impotent farce of Saddam Hussein's execution simply as one more death in Iraq.
A death made ever more insignificant by every innocent Iraqi who has died/is dying/will die because of our overzealous incursion into Iraq and inept mismanagement of its prosecution at virtually every turn. Who feels safer today with Saddam dead? How many Iraqis do you suppose feel safer?
Anyone who wants to treat this as something to celebrate doesn't earn a lot of my respect either. You are playing along with a game for fools in deliberate ignorance of what we have done...and at what price we have earned this ridiculous hanging.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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