Readers Respond: The Hussein Hanging

[madeline_con]

"Somehow this is the epitomy of the ravaging that this people has endured - barbarism hailed as liberty."

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2780.shtml

[XOKCowboy]

1. In revulsion at the executioner, we become executioners. This is called irony

Very true.

[pacalo]

2. All good letters -- I agree with each one.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Steve Harris nails it.

I see a memo laying around somewhere, a memo that has a scripted scenario with key plot developments such as Colin Powell's dog and pony show at the U.N., the fall of Baghdad (complete with the pulling down of Saddam's statue), "Mission Accomplished," and somewhere later on the execution of Saddam.

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He might well include the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch and the Thanksgiving plastic turkey incident, as well as the "Did I just see Air Force One?" farce on that same Thanksgiving.

Oh, I almost forgot. Purple fingers!

[cassiepriam]

4. Yes all of this is just Rovian marketing. We are manipulated daily.