his underwear. His tight white briefs. Now how did that photo get to be splashed across newspapers, the internet, and every cable and network news channel? Supposedly it's an old photo, taken around the time Saddam was first incarcerated, some 19 months ago. Nineteen months this guy has been held in an undisclosed, so-called "safe" location, uncharged. I guess former cruel mass-murdering dictators who don't have weapons of mass destruction but are unable to prove that have no right to due-process in their newly formed democratic country, or under U.S. military law, or however it is we are holding him... uncharged. And he is also fair game for being globally humiliated. Not that anyone cares about Saddam Hussein, least of all me. It's just the point. We have laws against this sort of thing, something known as the Geneva Convention. What next in this ridiculously mismanaged unnecessary war?
I think our dear George personally commissioned someone to take those photos of Saddam so that he could splash them across the media. What pleasure that must give him, seeing the man 'who tried to kill [his] daddy' in his "tightie whities." Victory at last, and in ways far more enjoyable than he imagined.
Ultimately it's too boring to hold center stage for long. One look at that photo was more than enough for me. And it's also just another diversion from what's really important: that human beings, both American and Iraqi, as well as other nationalities, are being blown up, shot, decapitated, or otherwise untimely sent to their respective 'maker' every day, courtesy of U. S. tax dollars.
Meanwhile, the South Koreans have made a major breakthrough in stem cell research. That news had George reiterating that he will veto any bill from Congress budgetting tax dollars for similar research by U. S. researchers. Better to keep funneling it into Iraq.
George is unable to wrap his little mind around the importance of stem cell research. It violates his sense of Christian morality. Killing tens of thousands of Muslims doesn't violate that sense, nor does sending our military personnel into harm's way for ... (if you can fill in the blank, good for you; I can't), that's okay. I guess there's something somewhere in the bible that says it's okay. But using a discarded embryo for potentially life saving research, well that's too horrifying, too evil, to allow.
I sure am looking forward to January 2008. Anything and anyone has got to be better than this. Well, anyone other than ... Dick Cheney.
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