I really have no feelings about Zacharias Moussaoui, one way or the other. He was not a participant in the horrific events of 9/11, Karl Rove's favorite day of the 1600 Crew administration. He might have known about it, but insiders from Al-Qaeda seem to indicate even if he did, his knowledge was sparse at best. But the "kill 'em all" crowd is crowing for their pound of flesh. The 1600 Crew blew their chance catch Reagan Adminstration creation, Osama bin Forgotten in Afghanistan. Right after they let all his relative leave the country when no one else could fly out. So someone's gotta die. It's the American Way, after all.
A federal jury found today that Zacarias Moussaoui was responsible for at least some of the deaths that occurred in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, meaning that he could be subject to the death penalty.
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The trial, whose sole purpose was to determine whether he would be sentenced to death or life in prison, also gave a newly detailed and vivid picture of the missed opportunities that followed his arrest three weeks before the attacks.
Almost as surely as charging Moussaoui, the same rationale could be applied to others, far less Muslim. Wasn't there a briefing, something about ObL determined to strike the US? Didn't at least one American die because Beloved Leader spent his August 2001 on vacation (as he's done most of the days we've been paying him) in Crawford, on his photo-op ranch doing photo-op things?
Well, if they decide to execute the guy who's already pled guilty, then all that's happened is that the US Government has created a martyr where one did not exist before. There were a few home-grown nutjobs who celebrated the death of Tim McVeigh for his terrible act, and have lionized his deeds. Imagine how the many adherants of Islam, who already aren't real thrilled with our conduct in Mess O'Potamia will feel after we execute Moussaoui. I suspect that there will be Zacharias brigades taking vengence in his name, in the not too distant future. If they had just locked his ass up in SuperMax for 30 or 40 years, no one would remember him or anything he did or said. Now we get the chance to elevate him to the status of Martyr, all on the taxpayers dime.
Well done. Idiots.
posted by Jo Fish on 04.03.06 at 05:19 PM
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Right on. Z-Mo is a stooge with delusions of grandeur. Compared to the terrorists who al Qaeda took seriously and assigned to carry out 9/11, this guy is a patsy. He'll do far more damage to America in death--giving radical fundamentalists one more poster child--than he ever has in life. And if anybody thinks that killing him will punish him, they're woefully without vision. According to this guy's beliefs, as a martyr, he has dozens of young virgins waiting for him on the other side. Killing him is the dumbest and lamest thing we could do.
What amazes me is how transparent his bid for martyrdom has been from the start. The guy is nuts and we are playing his game. What does that make us?
To think that the "pound of flesh crowd", I like that, would give this guy any credence and the public martyrdom he desperately wants is laughable if not sad. Stick him in a dungeon for the rest of his miserable life. That would be a far better penalty than death.
