Where have you been?

The following was taken from an article by James Carroll writting in the International Herald Tribune. Article title: "The lynching of Iraq"

"The hanging of Saddam Hussein on Dec. 30 offerd a view into the grotesque reality of what America has sponsored in Iraq...It was a lynching...The harsh fact is that the Shiite dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, in its contemptible treatment of a man about to die, laid bare the dark truth of Bush's war. This is what revenge looks like, and revenge...drove the initial U.S. attack on Saddam Hussein every bit as much as its snuffed out his life at the end. The hooded executioners took their cue from Bush."

"And why should they not have? Let's remember who this man is. As governor of Texas, he presided over the executions of 152 people, including the first woman put to death in Texas in a century..."

"...That executions defined the main public distinction that Bush brought to the U.S. presidency sums up the national disgrace, while suggesting also how little surprise there should be that America is presided over now by an executioner-in-chief."

"...Iraqi loss of life remains mostly unimagined, but every evening on the television news, Americans see the sweet faces of young soldiers who have died in Bush's war. They were heroes, not criminals, yet Bush dragged each one of them up onto a gallows. He positioned them on the trap door, hardly wincing as they then fell through. And now, in perhaps the greatest outrage of all, Bush claims that the way to justify the unnecessary deaths he has caused is to add to them. Escalation is his way of saying, go to hell."

"With his lies at he beginning of this war, and his fantasy now that an honnorable outcome remains possible, the president is a taunting killer, caught in the act. He lacts nothing but he black hood. Stop this man."