No pretense of moral clarity here!

At least one blogger believes that Saddam Hussein wasn't all that bad:

Saddam was a bad guy, but it isn't clear he's any worse of a guy than some of the folks who are a part of our "Coalition of the Willing," so this pretense of moral clarity, etc... is ridiculous.
Hmmmmm.....

Well, let me say one thing: this blog does not have any pretenses of moral clarity!

If you find any, let me know, and I'll be properly ashamed.

The next thing we'll hear is that the Saddam Hussein capture -- just in time for Christmas -- was just another orchestrated PR stunt for Dubya's reelection. (That they knew all along where he was, and were just waiting for the right time... something like that.)

I think the situation calls for satire.

Since I am lucky enough to have gotten an Instalanche on my last post, let me float an idea for either a cartoon or a Photo Shop project (something I am not competent to do).

Remember the uproar over Bush and the Thanksgiving turkey? How about using that same picture, and instead of the turkey, substituting a suckling pig -- with Saddam Hussein's head holding an apple in his mouth?

I can see it now. (Wish I knew how to draw or use Photo Shop....)

By the way, Saddam-Suckling-Pig Hussein was not my idea; it was my elusive helper, Justin Case. But ideas cannot be copyrighted!


UPDATE: Wow, it didn't take long for the turkey remarks to start!

another plastic Turkey moment. Another moment that does not really matter. (via InstaPundit.)
So the capture of Saddam Hussein is the equivalent of a turkey? And a fake, plastic one at that?

What next? Surely you don't think they'd go so far as to call this feast part of a PatternOfDeception(TM), do you?

Hey, forget my PhotoShop remarks, OK?


UPDATE: A source reports that the mood on "the street" in Berkeley, California, today is glum indeed. (Perhaps there'll be some news from al Jazeera to cheer them up!)


UPDATE: A talented ghostwriter for Indymedia offers this full explanation of today's news:

Isn't it convenient that the capture comes right on the heals of the Halliburton gas price scandal? Seems a little too convenient. Obviously they've had Saddam for months waiting for just the right moment to "announce" his capture. Cheney forced the issue to bring him out of hiding now to protect his Halliburton buddies. He wants to push the gas price scandal out of view, and he's going to succeed unless we keep attacking.


UPDATE: Here are some of the more amazing quotes I have seen (compiled in San Francisco by Banagor):

"I've heard that they had him for months and only pulled him out now because of the elections"

"I don't really believe it is him. It must be a double. You know that Bush would stoop to that."

"Yeah, I don't believe it either. It was staged."

"Maybe it was him but what about all the other things like Haliburton?"

"I don't put anything past Bushcheney and Rove. It's a set up."

"I'm still in shock, you know what this means for his numbers?"

"How can you be happy about it? You know what this means for Dean?"

I wish someone could spread some oil on such psychotically troubled waters. Anti-Bush hatred has taken on the earmarks of complete hysteria, and things are getting to the point where I think Bush himself ought to do something, and I don't know what! Not to win any election, but simply to remind those who hate him (and those ordinary folks who find themselves increasingly baffled by the metastasizing hatred) that he is, simply, a human being. (Ronald Reagan was to the right of Bush, yet he was nowhere nearly as excoriated. One of the things he used to do was to meet with enemies....)

UPDATE: And here's the last word on the Atta/Hussein connection: an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein himself, via Meryl Yourish.

U.S.: Let's talk a little bit about Mohammed Atta.
S.H.: I do not know such a person.
U.S.: Mohammed Atta, Abu Nidal—you remember Abu Nidal, he's the guy who committed suicide while in your country by multiple gunshot wounds to the head.
S.H.: Ah, him. Yes, it was an unfortunate suicide.
U.S.: Dude. Multiple gunshot wounds to the head. You had him murdered. We know it.
S.H.: I did not have him murdered. It was suicide. He fell on his gun, and it went off several times. And hit him in the head each time. It is pure coincidence that my son was there.
U.S.: Abu Nidal taught Mohammed Atta, didn't he?
S.H.: I do not know what you are talking about. How can I remember such things while my people are in bondage? [*urp*] I need to use the bathroom.
U.S.: How can you use the bathroom when your people are in bondage?
S.H.: You mock me now. But the great Iraqi people will rise up against the occupiers, and restore Iraq to—
I don't know what happened at this point. Guess they lost the signal....


NOT SO FAST!!! There's another interview with Saddam Hussein, and this time, he begs for mercy!

posted by Eric on 12.14.03 at 11:31 AM





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All Bush needs to do is let them keep spewing this garbage and he'll win in 2004 by a landslide. It's too bad.

Steven Malcolm Anderson   ·  December 14, 2003 10:31 PM

"Saddam was a bad guy" is a classic bit of understatement from the Bush-hating left... Might as well say "Saddam was a naughty boy."

HH   ·  December 15, 2003 12:10 AM

I feel sorry for the party of FDR, Truman, JFK, Henry Jackson, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Steven Malcolm Anderson   ·  December 15, 2003 03:43 PM


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