Mikael Rudolph
Op
Ed News
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
The Price of Silencing an Accomplice ~ Courtesy Sgt. Fearn, the "Impeachment
Grunt"
Saddam is dead.
The same Saddam we armed to fight Iran.
The Same Saddam who shook Rummy's hand.
The same Saddam who used American-supplied chemical weapons to kill
the Kurds.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Bush.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Cheney.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Rummy.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Condi.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Colin Powell.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to Rudy Giuliani.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to every GOP
Convention speaker.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections - or so we were told.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections - or so Congress was told.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to FoxNews.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to CNN.
The same Saddam who had Al Qaeda connections according to the entire
corporate media.
The same Saddam who was behind 9/11 according to Bush, Cheney, Condi,
Rummy, Powell, et al.
The same Saddam who was behind 9/11.
... well not really...
Why exactly did we attack Iraq again?
The same Saddam who had NO Al Qaeda connections according to Bush...
eventually.
The same Saddam who had NO 9/11 connections whatsoever.
Why exactly did we attack Iraq again?
The same Saddam who hated Osama bin Laden.
The same Saddam who had no nuclear weapons.
The same Saddam who had no missiles capable of reaching Israel, much
less the USA.
The same Saddam who bought no Yellowcake uranium from Niger.
The same Saddam whose aluminum tubes were incapable of use in a nuclear
centrifuge.
The same Saddam who had no mobile chemical weapons labs.
The same Saddam who had no other WMDs.
The same Saddam who allowed Hans Blix to inspect his nation until Bush
pulled Hans Blix out.
The same Saddam whose Iraq's skies we have controlled and patrolled
since the Gulf War.
Why exactly did we attack Iraq again?
Saddam is dead.
The same Saddam whose personal pistol is a hunting trophy in President
Bush's office.
The same Bush who Europe's press titled: "The Executioner"
as Governor of Texas.
The same Bush who chose not to stay the execution of the first 131 death
row inmates - the vast majority black men - whose time had come under
his watch.
The same Bush who after five callous years as Governor finally granted
his first stay of execution in a Rovian flourish shortly after announcing
his candidacy for the Presidency.
The same Bush who fiddled while New Orleans flooded and the poor blacks
drowned.
Saddam is dead.
And President Bush didn't even have to wear a black hood.
Nor a white one.
Saddam is dead.
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