While normally I am not for the death penalty, I can make an exception in this one case. He is the monster whose life must be put to an end. It irked me when Rosie O’Donnell had this to say of terrorists, "Well then, get away from the fear. Don't fear the terrorists. ... They're mothers and fathers." How could she choose to place a face of humanity on those who chose to dehumanize the victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks around the world? Don’t fear terrorists is saying, don’t fear rapists and murderers.
By making this war a felony with Bush the defendant, yet another heartbreaking story came out of Iraq today and prior to this debate in which bombers took the lives of 72 innocent Iraqi civilians. While they were not killed by American forces, with our presence in that country, and turning it into a civil war through sectarian violence, President Bush did take the lives of those innocent people. If the war is illegal, then the taking of any life through such an illegal war is by definition a war crime. It does not get plainer than that.
When Gravel mentioned the Iraqi death count as being in the hundreds of thousands, I was glad that he did. We need to know what slaughter was done in our name and with the complicity of the United States Congress. As I have stated in past articles, all of this will lead to the blow-back effect as innocent people have been murdered and displaced. Should these blow-backs take place on Bush’s watch, again, he has aided and abetted the enemy in their hatred towards all of us. Future blood must also be on his hands.
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