White House won't condemn Saddam taunts

[BushOut06]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/03/D8MDV7N00.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration sent conflicting signals Wednesday about the taunting and baiting that accompanied Saddam Hussein's execution, with the White House declining to join criticism of the procedure and the State Department and U.S. military raising questions about it.

"The president is focused on the new way forward in Iraq so these issues are best addressed out of Iraq, out of Baghdad," deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel said. "Prime Minister Maliki's staff have already expressed their disappointment in the filmings, so I guess we'll leave it at that."

Stanzel said the U.S. military and the U.S. Embassy in Iraq had expressed concerns about the timing of Saddam's execution and later about "the process and what took place."

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday that U.S. officials questioned conducting the execution on a Muslim festival day and as well as some procedures, such as who would be signing certain documents.
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[saigon68]

1. Chimpanzee too busy masturbating in oral office bathroom sink

LOL

[AzDar]

2. Stupid sonofabitch. Just can't bring himself to do the right thing, can he?

Loathsome, hateful, unworthy FOOL...
makes Saddam look like the hero of the piece.

[displacedtexan]

4. By ignoring this opportunity to speak out, he's just as bad as they are.

Bush*, that is.

[IndianaGreen]

11. How can Bush call al-Sadr a bad guy when it was his militia that lynched Saddam?

Bush can't have it both ways!

[Nihil]

13. Hang on ...

... That's not what Jeff Gannon said!
:evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

3. It is so degrading to have this WH represent us to the world!!

[central scrutinizer]

5. "Oh, please don't kill me"

If you can mock one condemned prisoner, why not condone mocking another? It's that old compassionate conservatism again.

[Cass]

6. Its a damned disgrace that this Administration can't bring themselves

to condemn this. The entire frigging civilized world is appalled at the despicable spectacle of Saddam's execution and this Administration can't condemn this?? Jesus Christ. This is unbelievable.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Totally at a loss for words, but planning on a nice time in South America with all of our money...

[HuffleClaw]

8. U.S. officials questioned conducting the execution on a Muslim festival day????

what utter bullshit. this pretense that it wasn't completely at the orders of the white house, right down to the 'leaked' video, is so insulting.

[ckramer]

9. Could it be that Saddam's execution is part of the "Shiite Tilt" strategy?

Read this:

"On the political front, the administration is focusing increasingly on variations of a "Shiite tilt," sometimes called an "80 percent solution," that would bolster the political center of Iraq and effectively leave in charge the Shiite and Kurdish parties that account for 80 percent of Iraq's 26 million people and that won elections a year ago.

"Vice President Cheney's office has most vigorously argued for the "80 percent solution," in terms of both realities on the ground and the history of U.S. engagement with the Shiites, sources say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120801823_pf.html

Speculated by http://www.liberaloasis.com/

[MadMaddie]

10. I don't know why anyone would be surprised by Chimpy's

non response...

He was proud of the Death Penalty in Texas and mocked a women who was to be executed....

America should hang it's head low....

No one is defending Saddam for he was a criminal but how can America claim to have the moral compass the world should compare itself too when the leader * is such a sociopath...

[aaronbees]

12. "new way forward"??

Is this the new BushCo meme now to catapault us over the cliff?? I swear I keep hearing that damn disgusting phrase these days. What a complete joke.

The only moving forward is moving forward right on out of there.

[daleo]

14. Bush loves a good hanging

The more uncivilized, the better. He would have been right in the thick of the Ox-bow Incident.