Saddam's Bushco photo-op.. Er, I Mean Execution

Haven't posted in a bit. I came down with some kind of nasty cold/flu bug over the weekend. Nasty cough, stuffy nose, achy all over. All those old cold medicine symptoms. I haven't even been able to keep up with the "News" much. I did watch some of the Gerald Ford honor-thon today. Like I told my wife I didn't mind much. I thought more of Ford than I did Ronald Reagan and I certainly liked Betty Ford more than Nancy Reagan. Other than showng dubya sitting there smirking every few minutes it was okay. I saw the old war criminal Kissinger's speech and Tom Brokaw's which led into the Smirkster himself. I returned to my book at that point. Watching that man speachify is like getting dental work done. There was lot's of war pigs present not only dubya and The Dick Cheney but I saw crazy Donnie Rumsfeld in the audience.
Overall a pretty dazzling send-off for Jerry Ford.
Regarding the war dilletante dubya once again has apparently screwed the pooch with the emergency(apparently) execution of Saddam Hussein in the Green zone(?). If we were going to do this right the guy would have been turned over to an International court. As always with this gang "right" is just an excuse for a photo event when needed. Seems like they virtually turned Saddam's execution over to Al-Sadr.
From MSNBC:
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Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland Monday, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator.

The demonstration in the Golden Dome, shattered in a bombing by Sunni extremists 10 months ago, suggests that many Sunni Arabs may now more actively support the small number of Sunni militants fighting the country's Shiite-dominated government. The Feb. 22 bombing of the shrine triggered the current cycle of retaliatory attacks between Sunnis and Shiia, in the form of daily bombings, kidnappings and murders.

Until Saddam's execution Saturday, most Sunnis sympathized with militants but avoided taking a direct role in the sectarian conflict -- despite attacks by Shiite militia that have killed thousands of Sunnis or driven them from their homes. The current Sunni protests, which appear to be building, could signal a spreading militancy.

Sunnis were not only outraged by Saddam's hurried execution, just four days after an appeals court upheld his conviction and sentence. Many were also incensed by the unruly scene in the execution chamber, captured on video, in which Saddam was taunted with chants of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada.

"The chants referred to Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shiite cleric who runs one of Iraq's most violent religious militias. He is a major power behind the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.