Still A Saddamite

Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose ties to the Saddam regime he now purports to have despised have been well documented, and who was earlier this year proselytising for Saddam to be granted immunity from prosecution for the crimes in which he, Donald H., was complicit; has explained away Iraqi anarchy by surmising that, "Every jail in that country was emptied, so on the street are looters, hooligans, and bad people. They have to be rounded up and put back in," and promising that, "The forces there will be using muscle."

So while Human Rights Watch's 2002 country report noted the regime's "arbitrary arrest of suspected political opponents and members of their families" and Amnesty International is tacitly accusing the Bush and Blair Administrations of, "A failure to treat" the issue of "disappeared" victims of Saddam's regime "properly and as a matter of urgency"; Donald H. -- rather than addressing the dearth of electricity, food, potable water, medicine, petrol (!), basic services, police, and paid employment (from whence the anarchy has clearly sprung) -- is spouting off about the need for a good old-fashioned "round up".

It isn't, surely, any wonder that the Bush Administration would be neglecting the task of making a full accounting of Saddam's crimes -- we were, after all, fully in support of those crimes. But at least it looks as though the Bush Administration is keeping its promise to model Iraqi democracy after American democracy: all niggers into the slammer.

Posted by Eddie Tews at May 15, 2003 03:42 PM