"Zap rat Saddam, sez Prez"

Great title from the New York Daily News, to depict how the President feels about the fate of Saddam. I also read another interesting article criticizing the President for being a little too trigger happy to kill off Saddam.

This comment from the article made me laugh "The US will create the instrument that will render Hussein’s verdict based on the time-honored American principle of “give him a fair trial and hang him.”" (Taken from www.wsws.org). I love 'independent' media just as much as the next, but seriously, I think that too many of them are too worried about pointing out the Bush Admin's faults and not concerned with what the Saddam actually did. You get things like this as a result.

After a quarter century of remorseless brutality to his country and people, he was finally executed as of a few hours ago. Now whether or not the court he went through is just a "puppet-court" (not the "kangaroo court" that Bush didn't want i.e. International Criminal Court) is really entirely speculation.

To be honest, I think the trial was a courtesy (just like most war tribunals are). The fact that he even was given a trial--even though it wasn't really a trial--was miracle enough. I was surprised he was assassinated --like his lawyers--before the trial was complete.

He is indisputably guilty of murder, torture, forced deportation (I know from second hand experience after speaking with a friend who was dropped out in the middle of the desert by Saddam's men and forced to walk for in the desert to Iran with his family) and received what was coming too him. Oh, and let us not forget the 100,000 Kurds in the 1988 Anfal campaign.

It blows my mind when Saddam's lawyer says "... he believes in destiny", and yet was enraged about the position he is in. To me, this is a fine example of Iraqi *cough*US*cough* due process.


Music:
Markus Shulz feat. Carrie Skipper - Never Be The Same Again (REMIXES)
Wonderfully composed track form Florida's Markus Shulz. He used Carrie Skipper for vocals again (we heard her voice in "Time Goes By" last year)! She has an incredible voice that adds to the song making it sound very robust and dynamic. The link is to a RAR for all three mixes, so unzip and enjoy! I hope to hear the Jose Amnesia & Sean Mitiska remix, when Sean will play in SLC at the end of Jan at the circle lounge. The Remixes all compliment each other very well, Mike Shiver did a nice uplifting remix that would work perfect for closing the night.