You Have to See it to Believe it....

This editorial appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle. I post it to demonstrate just how off the chart the far left can be. Saddam Hussein was one of history's all time mass murderers. He was executed based upon the decision of a democratically elected Iraqi council. Somehow this writer takes a position that it is all some Bush/Cheney voodoo scam. It is so unbelievable that it was posted in a major a newspaper that I must memorialize it here.

Hussein -- terrorist or terrorized?
Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007

SOMEONE has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy."

Instead, the rushed, illegal and unruly execution of a former U.S. ally after his conviction in a kangaroo court blurred the line between terrorist and terrorized as effectively as Hussein's own evil propaganda ever did.

In the most generous interpretation, the frantic killing of Hussein abetted by the United States was the third act in a morality play of misplaced vengeance for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- where the first act was the invasion of Iraq, based on trumped-up lies linking it to al Qaeda, and the second was the killing of the tyrant's sons, whose bloody corpses were hypocritically displayed to the world like war scalps.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/03/EDGC7N745G1.DTL

Why is this the NY Times Banner Headline Today?

In the New York Times' relentless campaign to put a negative spin on all Bush Administration accomplishments in Iraq, today's New York Times lead article on page 1 highlights the "abusive language " exchanged prior to the execution of Saddam Hussein, mass murderer of millions of Iraqi's over the past three decades. Can there be any reason to offer this spin on the lead story that is a monumental accomplish of the Bush administration? The obvious intention is to shift the focus to demonstrate nothing has been accomplished other than a shift of tribal power.

I personally find the New York Times to be transparent and without shame.

Iraq to Review Abusive Acts at Hussein's Execution

By JOHN F. BURNS and JAMES GLANZ

Saddam Hussein was subjected to a battery of taunts by official Shiite witnesses and guards as he awaited his hanging.

Officials said a three-man Interior Ministry committee would look into the scenes that have caused outrage and public demonstrations among Mr. Hussein’s Sunni Arab loyalists in Iraq, and widespread dismay elsewhere, especially in the Middle East. In an unofficial cellphone video recording that was broadcast around the world and posted on countless Web sites, Mr. Hussein is shown standing on the gallows platform with the noose around his neck at dawn on Saturday, facing a barrage of mockery and derision from unseen tormentors below the gallows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/world/middleeast/03iraq.html?