Well I made it about a day before "accidentally" looking at Saddam's' online hanging video. It's ok though, I saw it on the NY Times site so I can't possibly be accused of simple morbid curiosity - I had to watch the snuff film the Times was airing to really understand the news of the day. After all, they can't get outdone by Murdoch. I usually manage to drive right past car wrecks without looking but this was too damn tempting. What I thought: Barbaric and stupid but kinda interesting.
I'm most amused/frustrated by all the Saddam retrospectives being reported. Somehow the summary of his greatest and worst hits, his list of friends and enemies, always seems to skip right over the happy years he and our government enjoyed. In a time when images are more influential than words why the hell can't this video just be used to sum up the hypocrisy and stupidity of those in the seat of power? Maybe its for the same reason pardoning a criminal of the highest order is suddenly an act of great courage and wisdom.
Now that he's dead (Saddam, not Gerald or James) I think we can declare victory (everywhere) and get on with the work of uniting humanity in the all important quest of identifying meteors. I'm not really kidding, we should be watching the skies.
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