Corpsewatch : Day Five
Okay, we get it. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. I know this is the only good news the President has had for months, but do we really need to get all Zapruder film on the last few minutes of a dude who we blew up??
Speaking of Zaqawi, lemme just say that the President’s press conference last week was obnoxious. Every once in a while, George is so good at sticking to talking points that it starts to look a bit pathological. See if you can pick up on the phrase that Bush’s handlers wanted to insert into the news cycle :
One of the goals of al Qaeda was to encourage sectarian violence inside the country; it was to pit Sunni against Shia and Shia against Sunni in order to be able to stop democracy. His whole ambition was to stop the advance of democracy in Iraq. And our troops — who performed brilliantly, by the way, in bringing this man to justice — did the Iraqis and the Americans and anybody else who loves freedom a great service by bringing him to justice.
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Well, let me make sure everybody understands, I’m thrilled that Zarqawi was brought to justice. And I am so proud of our troops and intelligence officers who brought him to justice. This man had a lot of blood on his hands. He killed a lot of people. And it’s a big deal to have brought him to justice.
It’s okay to point out that American troops killed him, Mr. President. Next time try to either come up with another euphemism or avoid using the same phrase in every sentence.
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Bush Trumpets Iraq Terror Leader’s Death
President Bush was celebrating “a good week for the cause of freedom,” with the killing of terrorist
Trackback by Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — June 12, 2006 @ 10:04 am
What’s Democracy? Is that the system of government they have in Florida? If so, I’m not impressed.
Democracy doesn’t mean anything. The word is too vague in and of itself. A democracy does not guarantee individual rights and freedoms. It is the laws within the form of government which define and protect individual rights and freedoms. Spreading Democracy is meaningless rhetoric without enforcing a just rule of law, so this whole excercise in empire is completely corrupt without due process and adherence to laws which protect the rights of individuals. This includes sociopaths like Mr. al-Zarqawi and even Mr. Bush.
Comment by Kamachanda — June 12, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
At least we didn’t have to see a dental exam and lice check 500 times. We can take some comfort that since he lived and was awake for 52 minutes after the bomb hit,he probably suffered. He still had a better death than he deserved.
Comment by Becky — June 12, 2006 @ 2:21 pm
Rule of Law is the answer, but I don’t see us bringing justice to anyone as we refuse to have truck with it ourselves.
Comment by Mike Meyer — June 12, 2006 @ 9:30 pm
to “bring to justice” in this instance is
pure Orwellian newspeak - to use their lingo
properly, a “high value target” was “terminated with extreme prejudice” -
there is no justice without an impartial
judge and jury
Comment by Lieutenant Breakfast — June 13, 2006 @ 9:07 am