Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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I am kinda outraged at Chris Matthews today. Last night on Hardball, he lamented how Americans didn’t like it when their leaders were treated badly abroad and how he didn’t like Bush’s treatment in Baghdad yesterday. I am not lamenting, not one bit. I rejoiced. I would have liked it better if the Iraqi threw monkey poo at Bush.
As I still see it, Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections and he is unworthy of being shown grace or dignity – at home or abroad.
In fact, it would suit me just fine if Bush was tried by the International Court, convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad. I am typically against capital punishment because wrongful convictions are so easy to obtain. But the entire planet has given witness to the atrocities Bush has wrought in every corner of the globe. Torture, criminal use of military might, illegal war, abuse of the Geneva Conventions, abuse of all declarations of human rights and on and on the ugly list grows.
So, I am not at all bothered that an Iraqi threw his shoes at Bush. I just lament he missed.
“I am kinda outraged at Chris Matthews today.“
I have been more than “kinda” outraged at Chris Matthews since my first exposure to him in 2001 on the Ron Owens Show on KGO radio where he made the most hideously bloodily racist statements imaginable about the impending attack on Afghanistan. He was actually outraged at anticipating that when the American military slaughtered Afghan civilians they would gain sympathy by “running out of their tents waving their bloody hands in front of the press” and thus provide bad publicity for the war (Afghans don’t live in tents, you subhuman, racist asshole).
From that point on I had no interest in anything he had to say about anything.
Mundadhir Al Zeidi, the man who threw his shoes at George Bush, has been severely beaten and possibly tortured in prison. There are two petitions demanding his immediate release. Please sign both of them, and urge everyone you know to do so also.
This petition was placed by Ra’ed Jarrar who is very well connected in Iraq and verhy knowledgeable (google the name for some excellent analysis by an Iraqi of the Iraq situation). He plans to deliver it to the Iraqi embassy next week.
The originators of this petition have a goal of 50,000 signatures.
Please sign, leave a comment if you are moved to do so, and urge everyone you know to sign also.