the "American people" will not go along with this bloodlust

[Cocoa]

I'm talking about the human trophies, of course.

I have faith that the Bushies and the cable news whores are way out of step with the public on this one.

I saw Lester Holt the other day interview a woman in Jessica Lynch's hometown. He was clearly trying to lead the woman into expressing her jubilation at the news of the assassination, which had happened that day. But the woman declined to do so. She did say something like "well I guess it's a good thing" but it seemed to me she was just being polite, not wanting to disappoint Lester.

She also added a qualification to the optimism, which I'm sure Rove would not be pleased with if he heard it. She said "I don't like to hear about anyone being killed."

Now, with these pictures all over the place, I think we may see a backlash. Some people, like the people that applauded Dennis Miller's fascistic rant last night on Leno, DO want our country to be primarily killing Iraqis for the sake of killing them, but the Bushies may have overestimated how many are that sick. They may be fatally projecting their own sickness onto the whole public.

[damnraddem]

1. Maybe. I hope so. But there are many who enjoy their bloodlust.

Note the popularity of the death penalty, and its enthusiastic application in some states.

[Cocoa]

6. yes, but this is a new low, imo

Despite what you say, there's also some restraining element in our culture that has prevented this kind of thing from having been done before now.

Unless I'm mistaken about my history, I don't think American propaganda has ever included parading corpses, at least not in such an official way.

[bryant69]

2. This may be wishful thinking

I mean, Odai and Qusai, were clearly monsters. I for one am pretty well satisfied that the planet doesn't contain them anymore.

Pretending they are just another Iraqi we killed mocks the real tragedies that have occured. Odai and Qusai viciously oppressed the Iraqi people.

While I do seriously dislike President Bush and hate what he's done to our country, I'm not going to let my feelings for him cloud my perception of what other monsters exist in the world.

Bryant
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[Cocoa]

3. I guess I'm saying

that hopefully you're in the minority.

:shrug:

[bryant69]

4. I still intend to vote against Bush.

So I hope I'm not.

[Pillowbiter]

5. the nazi's even got a trial

and their crimes were much worse.

Yes the world may be better off without them. But America's sense of justice has been severely wounded by this attack.

PB

[unfrigginreal]

8. I agree with you

Those two thugs just aren't worth any of our concerns. I tend to think that most of the country is in the same position as you are on this one.

I'm strongly anti-Bush myself but questioning the military's action in this case will probably do him more good than harm.

[tom_paine]

7. They are psychoengineering this society

to make it as sick as they are.

Billions of Scaife, Bushevik and CIA-spook-drug-money (we can now see that, Thank God, the entire CIA is not yet wholly Bushevik, though I strongly think if the Impeial Family maintains control through 2008, it will be) have bought this Goebbels v2.0 and is now busy creating ever-growing legions of Monsters who will take this nation through the 21st Century : The Age of Totalitarianism.

Don't believe me? Look here...

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/education/6361513.htm

It's all in good fun until someone creates an Orwellian-Totalitarian Empire full of bootlicking serfs and arrogant aristocrats.

[catmandu57]

9. I think you're right

We all agree that they were bad men, saddam is a bad man, maybe there wasn't any alternative to killing them, however, the way these fools are crowing about it is sickening.
I believe that the american people don't share in this bloodlust, and I hope that it comes back on these idiots. At least they aren't parading the decapitated heads on a bradley, it just feels like it.