MUST READ: The Lynching of Iraq
By James Carroll | Monday, January 8, 2007 | The Boston Globe
This is an impassioned piece about brutality. Political analyst James Carroll compares the disgraceful act of tribal revenge implicit in the way Saddam Hussein was executed to George W Bush’s history of presiding over 152 executions with zero acts of clemency while he was Governor of Texas. America is now in the mdst of a national disgrace, presided over by an “executioner in chief”. Bush’s lies at the outset of this war and his fantasy that some kind of honorable ending for it is possible are repellent and dangerous. In Carroll’s words, “Stop this man.”…BS
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/01/08/the_lynching_of_iraq/
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