The moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter has lost its bloody mind. You have to admit, things are starting off a little shaky. As 2007 begins, I am puzzled and concerned about fairness and political correctness in America.
In the final days of 2006, Saddam Hussein was finally put to death for all the decades of horrors he put the entire country of Iraq through. He was a brutal dictator that was found cowering in a hole by American troops over two years ago. He was held in prison and tried with judges from his own country. His trial took months. Saddam spouted off quite frequently in court, which in turn, found its way to the media. He got to wear a snappy black suit, white shirt, no tie, each day to court. If he was malnourished in custody, he didn’t show it. I seem to remember that he quite enjoyed Dorito’s in custody. Dorito’s are tasty, especially for ruthless dictators.
After months of captivity and court proceedings, he was finally found guilty. Within 30 days, the Iraqi authorities, acting upon their own laws, put him to death, by hanging. I’m assuming when he heard the news he was going to be hung, he requested as many bags of Dorito’s as he could consume and had himself a good “man cry” alone in his cell.
On the morning of his execution, he was surrounded by Sunni’s in masks, guiding him to the awaiting rope and hanging platform. While he was being prepared, someone on the platform told Saddam to “go to hell” and taunted him. Heavens to Betsy, that’s not nice is it? It’s not nice to taunt the poor man about to be hung. Who would be mean enough to do that?
My question is, why are some people in this country, the media to be specific, focused on worrying about how mean someone was to Saddam Hussein during his last minutes.
What happened to this society? Why should we care one bit about how Saddam was feeling or what verbal abuse he received? Why do we care about the potential hurt feelings of a ruthless dictator who saw to the execution and murder of hundreds of thousands of residents of the country he led. He had people raped and tortured, remember?
Every day on television, we see people being humiliated and treated far worse then Saddam on the hangman’s platform. Flavor Flav treats his “ho’s” on his reality program worse than what Saddam went through during his entire captivity, and he’s the biggest star on reality TV. What is it about this society that refuses to accept the fact that in some rare cases, someone is just plain evil?
It’s as if there are some out there that are just hoping that Saddam may have been sexually abused by a priest, had dyslexia, and drank tainted water, anything in his life that would explain how he became so doggone mean to people. There must be something because there is good in everyone isn’t there? Remember, Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler had a cool VW back in the day. That doesn’t mean they deserve to have history rewritten to look past their little indiscretions like a tendency to want to commit genocide and their pesky hobby to take over the world. Evil is evil and Saddam, I’m sorry to tell you, was evil. He deserved to die, once it was decided that he should die by a court of his own people.
We are a forgiving nation. We love to forgive people who make mistakes, as long as they own up to it. I’m grateful that I have forgiveness in my heart. However, I am also fully aware that the past actions of this man have played a role in the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands of Americans. I am also full aware that this man lived an opulent life built on violence and intimidation far more severe than the schoolyard variety of intimidation he received on the hangman’s platform. This was not a “sectarian lynching” as some are saying, it was an execution, nothing more or less.
If there was good in this man, he hid it very well and he showed no signs of it through his reign as the leader of Iraq. Maybe he was sweet to his kids and grandkids and his wife at times. So what? It’s easy to be sweet to a 5 year old; they can’t overthrow your government. Sometimes you just have to come to grips with the fact that some people are just mean and they deserve what they get.
What we saw on the hangman’s platform and what we saw during the court proceedings, was that Saddam Hussein was one tough SOB who wouldn’t give an inch. In a weird way, I respected the fact that he was true to his beliefs throughout this entire proceeding. I’m sure on his way up the evil ladder, he knew how to take a punch and he sure knew how to give one. I’m sure at that moment someone yelled at poor Saddam, he was man enough to weather the moment and move on from it. That’s what we should do.
Let’s not worry about hurting someone’s feeling all the time, especially Saddam Hussein. People are mean sometimes to others. Just remember, at times, there’s may be a good reason people are mean to mean people. Trust me, Saddam is over it, literally and figuratively.
Now, I implore you, enjoy your own Dorito’s in the comfort of your own cozy home while you keep on obsessing about global warming, second-hand smoke and global warming for that matter, the puzzling and baffling career of K-Fed and the unfortunate lack of panties on Britney Spears.
