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2005-01-07 Iraq-Jordan

Demonized Dictator or Demented Defender?

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Posted by Steve 2005-01-07 3:49:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Believe me, Ramsey, you don't have to explain yourself. It was a foregone conclusion you'd slither on your belly into Baghdad eventually.

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-07 4:42:43 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:42:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Reminds me of the Hell-ywood leftists after returning from sucking Castro's, um, cigar...

Posted by Hyper 2005-01-07 4:54:02 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:54:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sweet Slogan but it's idealistic BS.

What If I demonized Satan or Hitler, I don't see how I'm stopping peace.

Posted by Jolulet Jeting8442 2005-01-07 4:55:55 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:55:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Go ahead and dig Ramsey - take the whole damn left down with you.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-07 4:57:12 PM|| 2005-01-07 4:57:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hanging from a gibbet with crows eating his eyes is my personal favorite vision of Sammy...

Posted by mojo 2005-01-07 5:20:23 PM|| 2005-01-07 5:20:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "In presence [Saddam] is reserved, quiet, thoughtful dignified, you might say, in the old-fashioned sense."

Well, in the old fashioned sense of Stalin maybe. Smiling Uncle Joe killed millions in a dignified, quiet kind of way.

Clark, you are an idiot.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-01-07 5:37:46 PM|| 2005-01-07 5:37:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And sometimes Unca Joe would call up folks and let them know they were safe...... sometimes they were.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-07 5:46:20 PM|| 2005-01-07 5:46:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh man I feel so sorry for Ramsey. He will cry like Boxer when they send Saddam to the gallows. Hopefully the trial will last until the mid-term elections so all the LLL politicians can voice their strong opposition to the hanging of the tyrant Saddam. Can you say 70-seat majority?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-01-07 6:28:40 PM|| 2005-01-07 6:28:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ..insisting that Americans have demonized Saddam,..

I don't suppose any of the barbarity that occurred on his long watch (not to mention the things that happened with his approval) had anything to do with that......did it?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-07 6:53:09 PM|| 2005-01-07 6:53:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "one of the greatest barriers to peace is demonization."

I would have thought dumping your citizens in mass graves, gassing minorities and warring with your neighbors was a barrier to peace. But what do I know? I'm just a simple American.

Was Ramsey Clark really the Attorney General or is that just a drug-addled remembrance from the 60's?

Posted by SteveS 2005-01-07 9:23:23 PM|| 2005-01-07 9:23:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Clark really was AG under President Johnson. In fact, he was the AG, J. Edgar Hoover's boss, at the time of the original COINTELPRO operation to discredit anti-war activists and when MLK and Robert Kennedy were assasinated in 1968. These are, of course, staples of the Moonbat conspiracy industry.
Clark should by all rights be the prime suspect in these conspiracies, but he is somehow never mentioned.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-07 11:15:23 PM|| 2005-01-07 11:15:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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