My mother turned 94 on Thursday, and I am just back from visiting her and other family in South Texas for a few days. New fact I learned: My great-grandfather, who is buried in Nursery, Texas, fought for the 30th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War. My brother Joe, who has done some research on all this, says that Crisps were fairly well represented on both sides of the war. So I come by my moderate extremism naturally.
I took the occasion of the trip to spend some birthday money on two books: "The Wal-Mart Effect" by Charles Fishman and "Fiasco" by Thomas Ricks. "Fiasco," an account of how things got so screwed up in Iraq, kept me occupied yesterday through 10 hours of airport layovers. Powerful stuff, about which more later.
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I see that Bush finally got Saddam............BEFORE HE COULD SPILL THE BEANS! I can't believe that the American people are not outraged by this atrocity! Now, we will probably never know the full extent of the Bush family complicity in the entire Iraq saga. Who says that crime doesn't pay! It's paying quite nicely for Bush and Co.
LK
How stupid, LK. If they wanted to keep Saddam quiet, they would have splattered him inside his spider hole.
Yeah, how stupid of me anonymouse. What was I thinking? An American soldier does his job effectively, efficiently, and with honor by not summarily executing the leader of a sovereign nation, which would have been in direct violation of all established international law and civilized conduct by any standard. Boy did HE screw up. But Bush didn't. Bush executed Saddam by means of his appointed kangaroo court. Now THERE'S some real justice for you! Will see what the civilized world has to make of all this.
LK
Yes, the description stuck, no?
Happy New Year!
Tony
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