Weird, how much this bugs me.

[apocalypsos]

The top three sarcastic responses I made in my head to Saddam Hussein's execution:

1. I haven't checked Guinness yet. Did we beat the land-speed record for execution?
2. So now will the Iraqi people be giving me my pony?
3. Great news! I've always wanted world peace!

I know he was a dictator and all, but something about the whole thing makes me cringe.

I was just asking someone at work the other day who they thought the third celebrity death would be after James Brown and Gerald Ford. Funny, you think I would have put my (not really any) money on Saddam.

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[mayhemwench.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with this comment. It's not that I think Saddam was a spiffy guy, because I think he was a dictator, and not a nice one. And he did do some horrible things to the Kurds and all. But this whole trial (just like this whole war) is a complete and utter farce, and we're wasting lives of our troops to make things worse for the Iraqis than Saddam ever did, and it makes me really ashamed of my country that so few people are actually saying anything about this (or even care). You guys seem to be the sane ones.

I've been reading Baghdad Burning over the past few days and it made me even more certain that this is true.

And I'll also apologize for being miserable.