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I was watching footage of Saddam Hussain being executed.

I want to preface my post by saying, I know this man was a real life monster & what I have to say is not to be mistaken as defense of him.

I was so pissed when his execution was shown on television, it was everywhere, you couldn't get away from it...The whole thing disgusted me, this unprovoked war, soldiers & innocent Iraqis dying, people spying on their neighbors & co-workers because of whatever imaginary "evil doing" they were up to, my fellow Americans because so many were rejoicing in his death, people were clapping for christssake... Americans !...For weeks I thought that we/my country had turned into the very thing that we all abhored, blood thirsty bastards cheering death...I remember the media asking GWB if he had watched the execution & he replied that he hadn't {I think he may have even said he was still in bed asleep}...I think he should have had to, I thought that then &I think that now...He was the Commander In Chief, it should have been a responsibility, he ordered this capture& execution...So many people, countless actually, paid the price for George to have his way, Saddam was to be killed, he owed it to all of those people to at least bear witness to it.

I apologize for the length of that but, I've always felt very strongly about that moment in time & seeing OP's post set me off...That & I just drank a frappuccino which has given me a serious caffeine buzz, had you been in front of me you would have seen me say all that without even stopping for air.