John Gibson"..we tried to change things, but Iraqis evidently want to cling to their bloody history"

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,240877,00.html

Saddam's Hanging and Future of Iraq
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

By John Gibson

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Christopher Hitchens, who I admire greatly, has written that Saddam's execution was Iraq's chance to give up its bloody history. With all due respect to Christopher, Iraq blows a chance to give up its bloody past each and every day.

In a county where 50 or 60 tortured and bullet-riddled bodies turn up in the capitol every day — every day — what's one more body? Oh, this is a special body, this Saddam Hussein? Sure, he was the one who led the dead body production machine for two decades or more.

However, having said all that, today's piece in The Wall Street Journal that shows Prime Minister Maliki rushing to get the signatures in place so he could get the hanging done before somebody stepped in to give Saddam a reprieve, as unlikely as that sounds, makes the whole process seem much less like Iraq law in action than a Shiite revenge squad in action.

That's the problem now in Iraq. The Shia are running wild settling old and very legitimate scores, and the Sunnis are fighting back with their weapon of choice: the car bomb in a crowded market.

So now our president is going to surge troops so we can try to stop that revenge cycle, to put it on hold for a few minutes so both sides can catch their breath. OK, but if it continues, at least we can say Iraq has a bloody history, we tried to change things, but Iraqis evidently want to cling to their bloody history. And if so, then so be it. At that point, the only sane thing for us to do is say, OK, adios.

That's My Word.

[muntrv]

1. Uh, John. You're assuming that the Iraqis wanted us to come in and

overthrow Hussein. By the way, why don't you enlist? Oh yeah! JOHN GIBSON IS A CHICKENHAWK!!

[Wilms]

2. Nice of you, John.

So does that mean you all at Fox News will quit the lying that has sent 3000+ troops to their death? Can they come home now that you have your lame ass excuse all worked out?

[walldude]

3. I caught this little rant while flipping through the channels

What an asshole. The Shia are setteling "old and legitimate" scores and the Sunni are blowing people up with car bombs. Woo Hoo talk about fair and balanced.

[dave_p]

4. Oh. it's those violent Iraqis

We brought them peace with our bombs and tanks, but they just slipped back into a bloody history that we just invented.

How could they?

[Berry Cool]

5. "OK"? And in the meantime, let's just pour more people and money

down this rathole and see if it does any good? And if not, we just shrug and say, "Oh well, we tried, but we just couldn't stop THEM from being violent and bloody..."?? :shrug:

[brook]

6. Someone needs to ask Gibson

what he thinks about the good old USA holding on to a history of undermining other governments for corporate gain.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. I never believe anything that Albino beaver says.

Fox whore is what he is..................

[BuyingThyme]

8. "We murdered hundreds of thousands of them,

but they still love what's left of their families while clinging to their culture."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. If the USSR had invaded because some former actor was

deemed a threat to global stability, and had taken ronnie out, then hanged him, what would every single person in the US be doing? Even those who hated Raygun?

We'd be fighting in the streets, blowing up soviet armored columns, and attacking soldiers whereever and whenever possible.

JUST LIKE THE IRAQIS are doing to us.

it is such a simple truth. Why can't the idiots at Faux get it? Are they that dumb, or are they simply following orders?

[Skittles]

10. fuck you Gibson, you smarmy FREAK

and he is YOUR president, NOT ours

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. The only sane thing for gibson to do

is to say "I was wrong." But I have no reason to believe that sanity runs in his family.