Spinning Aside, Hanging Saddam Hussein Cannot "Vindicate" Thousands of American and Iraqi Deaths

By: Macduff
Published On: 11/5/2006 6:22:21 PM

Accoring to the AP's report this afternoon,  President "Bush painted Saddam's conviction and sentence as vindication of the sacrifices made by American soldiers in Iraq. More than 2,800 members of the U.S. military have died since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003."  The AP quoted Bush as saying: "Without their courage and skill, today's verdict would not have happened."

Some "vindication".  More than 2800 American soldiers have been killed in this ill-planned invasion; untold numbers of American contractors' employees have died; many thousands more Americans have suffered debilitating wounds; and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died or been wounded.  No matter how you spin it, hanging Saddam Hussein will not justify either the thousands of lost lives, the chaos our invasion has unleashed on Iraq, or the destabalizing effect our invasion has had on the Middle East. 

George's insipid claim of "vindication" further demonstrates this President's utter lack of judgment.  He's a committed political campaigner, but a disastrous president.  It's time to make Bush confront reality by putting Democrats in charge of the House and Senate.  Only changing control of Congress offers hope of redirecting this Administration's badly skewed priorities.


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