Glenn Reynolds asks the question: HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS SADDAM HUSSEIN KILLED? in his blog today from an article in the NYTimes. Well, that's a good question. Why is it important to know that number? Hussein is a cold, calculating dictator that many of the 1600 Crew helped put into power and remain there. Surely in the 80's when Rummy was peddling aid and comfort to Hussein for politics and profit, he must have had an inkling that Saddam was not going after the Mother Teresa Humanitarian Award. And the unelected fraud's Daddy left him there after Gulf War 1.
So if the ruler of sovereign country does atrocious things and we either aid or abet them along the way, do we have the right to be morally outraged now (later)? After all, the Sovereign ruler of the State of Texas, AWOL-boy managed to execute 152 prisoners all by himself and even laugh and joke about it.
Although he said he was anguished by the decision, in an interview in Talk magazine, writer Tucker Carlson described Bush mimicking the woman's final plea for her life. "'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'"
