The Death Of Saddam and The Creepy Right

(Updated Below)

Let me start off this post with the obligatory “Saddam was an evil, evil man who did evil, evil things”, so the nutters don’t accuse me of an evil lovefest, or whatever other strange ad hom attacks they can think of to label the left, instead of actually debating their ideas. With that said, it seems quite set in stone that Saddam will be hung by tomorrow, giving the Bush administration what could, perhaps, be their final shining moment in regards to the Iraq war.

Watching Fox news (hey, I take that bullet so you don’t have too) and the Conservative blogosphere (that one too) cover this with such glee is quite creepy. There is no doubt in my mind that there will be Champaign (and pill) popping in many Conservative camps, once this execution has taken place. The fact that a group of people are so happy, so incredibly giddy, about the death of another human being, cannot be described as anything but a sign of insanity. To get a hardon over the destruction of another human life is intrinsically evil.

UPDATE1 1:16 AM

And it's done.

With all the effort, all the lives lost, all the money spent in the fight to get to this exact moment (well this exact moment a few hours ago… yeah, yeah, I’m behind), shouldn’t I feel more… something? I can honestly say it wasn’t worth all the pain and suffering of our soldiers, all the deaths, all the past and future destruction as this war drags on until Bush is no longer president.



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Ice Shelf Breaks - Nothing To See Here

Those evil liberals must have hiked up to the frigid North (God knows they didn’t take a car… I mean, they are just that radical) and cut away at a giant ice shelf, making it seem as though their excuse for “normal” weather patterns - Global Warming - is causing huge climate changes. All so that they can stick it to their evil nemesis, big business, by making them adhere to regulations.

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.

Contrary to the flat out lies by the right, Global Warming is real, and there is a scientific consensus that agrees. As GW spurred environmental changes occur at incredibly fast rates around us, they will eventually come to terms with this fact. My only fear is that it will be entirely too late. Prevention is the key here, yet I don’t think enough people are ready for that step. I hope that, by the time they are, our world isn’t completely destroyed. Maybe with the new Congress something will get done, but I highly doubt it.



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LIEberman and Reality: No Longer BFF

Ripped From Museworld

In case anyone was wondering, Joe LIEberman is still at odds with reality.

I've just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to leaders there, all of which has made one thing clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger war is emerging. On one side are extremists and terrorists led and sponsored by Iran, on the other moderates and democrats supported by the United States. Iraq is the most deadly battlefield on which that conflict is being fought. How we end the struggle there will affect not only the region but the worldwide war against the extremists who attacked us on Sept. 11, 2001.

Because of the bravery of many Iraqi and coalition military personnel and the recent coming together of moderate political forces in Baghdad, the war is winnable. We and our Iraqi allies must do what is necessary to win it.

This entire Lieberman OpEd, which is basically LIEberman giving a BJ to the troop escalation camp (is there any doubt now that Bush is going to call for escalation), stinks of some real reality dodging- we even get a 9/11 comparison. Simply, LIEberman sounds like unhinged Bush (circa 2005).

The interesting angle of this is how the American public will receive this OpEd and if they will believe that we are, once again, fighting al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Iraq, instead of being completely stuck in the middle of warring Iraqi groups fighting for power. My guess is that there will be a resounding rejection of this escalation plan, and when this happens, I hope they realize that LIEberman is not a Democrat and that he should not reflect on the party.

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