Hussein's Verdict for America

Two days away from the midterm elections in the Amerikan Empire the news from Iraq is focused on the Hussein verdict. I guess the White House couldn’t find any more old Bin Laden videos to stir up public fear and influence another election.

Karl Rove isn’t that stupid to release reminders of Bush Administration failures but he is smart enough to spin a variation on a theme by trumpeting the success implied in Hussein’s verdict i.e. that we were in some way responsible for providing Iraq an opportunity to experience an “independent judiciary” while concealing the contempt this Administration has for an “independent judiciary” here at home.

Tony Snowjob’s role was scripted to mention a positive statement as obviously implied in his statement that “we're talking about an Iraq that can sustain, defend and govern itself, and you see -- we've seen progress when it comes on the military side, not only the Iraqi security forces ... but also an independent judiciary.”

And when a reporter asked Tony Snow if U.S. and Iraqi officials colluded to issue the verdict to help candidates who supported and still support George Bush he laughed and asked the reported if he was smoking dope. The insulting implication is that anyone who dare question the integrity of this Administration must be smoking dope.

Dissent has already been referred to as moral cowardice as well as the treasonous acts of giving aid and comfort to the terrorists why not demonize the opposition by ascribing “dope smoker” to dismiss the legitimate concerns of those who dare to disagree with one party rule. After all, we’ve already been conditioned in this country to know how fried your brain looks like on drugs.

Once again this Administration insults its citizens by implying we are too stupid to question what appears to be another staged event performed by the Republican Party intended to influence elections taking place in the homeland in two days. Indeed for a party that believes in profiling their past performances should make them suspect of perpetuating such mendacity.

The anthrax scare directed at Congress and the press which preceded passage of the first Patriotic Act without debate, the multiple color coded threat levels that were raised at the most opportune times in 02, the release of an old Bin-Laden video prior to the 04 election, and now two days before the midterm election Hussein is convicted of crimes against humanity and the public is once again expected to swallow this outrageous bullshit from the pathological liars of the Republican right.


Given the shameful history of this Administration, while the timing of the verdict is or should be questionable the question which has yet to be addressed is that of U.S. culpability in Hussein’s atrocities all of which were committed with U.S. political, financial, and military support during the Reagan Administration. Apparently under Iraqi law complicity is not a crime for the issue was never reported as being raised.

After the Hussein verdict was announced the U.S. embassy issued a statement which said the verdict “demonstrates the commitment of the Iraqi people to hold them (Saddam and his co-defendants) accountable.” How ironic that Hussein is an indicted war criminal in a country experiencing a civil war while George Bush has yet to be charged in a one party state masquerading as a democracy.

The Hussein verdict packaged by this incompetent war criminal president and his gang of miscreants as an Iraqi success story may or may not influence the midterm elections but it won’t affect my vote.

The appeasement party in the homeland already influenced my vote on the day the Hussein verdict was announced when Senator Schumer assured the voters that should they win a majority in Congress they will not be demonstrating any commitment of the American people they represent to hold George Bush and his coconspirators accountable for the death and destruction occurring in Iraq.

While the talking heads analyze the results of who won and why they won I’ll be sitting out this midterm charade because for me it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference when deciding between those who waged war based on a series of calculated lies and those who looked the other way. Hussein's verdict for America proved that a tyrant can be replaced by the rule of law if we only stayed the course of democracy here at home.