*: thank U.S. forces for bringing Zarqawi "to justice."

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-12T174144Z_01_N10212766_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-BUSH.xml&archived=False

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Bush asked the generals to thank U.S. forces for bringing Zarqawi "to justice." Zarqawi was killed when an F-16 jet fighter leveled an al Qaeda hideout with two 500-pound bombs.

[endarkenment]

1. Uh ok I'll bite.

At the risk of stating the obvious, blowing somebody up in an airstrike (if that is what happened) is not 'bringing that person to justice'. Bush is a vile asshat who should be brought to justice the right way: a one way ticket to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes.

[underpants]

2. Reviewing our top headline

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1407966

[MallRat]

3. Huh?

What, they mailed a couple of fingertips and an ear to The Hague to stand trial?

Whether or not you agree with the bombing mission or its objective, I would hardly call this bringing Al-Zarqawi "to justice." There's nothing left to adjudicate.

[Vogt]

4. Did Bush ask the generals

to thank the al-Qaeda informant that served Zarqawi up on a silver platter? If so, did they do it? And while we're at it, has this member of al-Qaeda received his check for $25 million yet? I'm sure his boss Mr. Bin Laden is expecting payment in full.

[Virginia Dare]

6. 25 million going to fund more terrorism no doubt....

and welcome to D.U.

:hi:

[Vogt]

8. Thanks

Cheers.

[gatorboy]

7. They've already stated that he didn't "qualify" for the award.

Now ain't that a kick in the ass!

[obreaslan]

11. "Oops, look here, you forgot to sign the 1145B form in subsection 45q...

I'm so sorry, you don't qualify for the reward. Here, have a commemorative pen."


:)

[lebkuchen]

5. Still fishing for those HS recruits, I see.

...even though Rummy says army recruitment quotas are being met~.

[Gregorian]

9. No. Thank you, George! We couldn't have done it without your war.

The corporations are very pleased. We never were too keen on that "innocent until proven guilty" thing. Too much work. Not cost effective.


If I could post two sound files here, I would.

One is a band that does the Pledge of Allegiance. They site it with total anger in their voices. That's it. But it's really powerful.

Then there's one that Jello Biaffra does. It's a mock phone conversation with the sound of a gagged prisoner being tortured, underneath the voices.


"Greetings... This is the Secretary at the State Department of the United States... We have a problem. The companies want something done about this sluggish world economic situation... Profits have been running a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some growth... Now we know there's an alarming high number of young people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble for the police and damage private property. It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job... It's about time we did something constructive with these people... We've got thousands of 'em here too. They're crawling all over... The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious get-together - and start another war... The president? He loves the idea! All those missiles streaming overhead to and fro... Napalm... People running down the road, skin on fire... The Soviets seem up for it... The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years. Hell, Afghanistan's no fun... So whadya say?... We don't even have to win this war. We just want to cut down on some of this excess population... Now look. Just start up a draft; draft as many of those people as you can. We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on, hand 'em some speed, give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use an automatic riffle and send 'em on their way... Libya? El Salvador? How 'bout Northern Ireland? Or a 'moderately repressive regime' in South America? We'll just cook up a good Soviet threat story in the Middle East - we need that oil... We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafy's hit squad didn't even show up. I tell ya... that man is unreliable. The Kremlin had their fingers on the button just like we did for that one... Now just think for a minute - we can make this war so big - so BIG... The more people we kill in this war, the more the economy will prosper... We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queues if we plan this right. Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls... Now don't worry about those demonstrators - just pump up your drug supply. So many people have hooked themselves on heroin and amphetamines since we took over, it's just like Vietnam. We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong. Kept the war functioning just fine... It's easy. We've got our college kids so interested in beer they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again. Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldn't even know what it looked like... So how 'bout it? Look - war is money. The arms manufacturers tell me unless we get our bomb factories up to full production the whole economy is going to collapse... The Soviets are in the same boat. We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?... That's excellent. We knew you'd agree... the companies will be very pleased."

[pdxmom]

10. When I first heard that, it made me cringe. But isn't the word "justice"

related to a police/criminal matter? And didn't Bush make it very clear that Iraq was a military problem, not a law enforcement problem? Another example of the hypocracy of this administration. I need to write a book about that topic - I have a ton of these types of hypocritical comments by that side.

[ladjf]

12. Why didn't they just send there or four Humvees with troops to

the house and arrest him? Think what information he could have given.

[Rex]

13. Bush thanks generals

"Thanks for blowin shit up!"