a degrading spectacle

The official US response to the capture of Saddam Hussein: a degrading spectacle
By David Walsh
16 December 2003

The official American response to the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein must provoke feelings of deep disgust. It requires a political and media establishment from whom all traces of democratic or humane instinct have been eradicated to react with a display of such ignorance, vindictiveness and sadism.

There is irony in the fact that only a regime as depraved as the current one in Washington could create by its actions a degree of sympathy for Hussein, a right-wing nationalist thug and former ally of the US.

Banner headlines screaming “We’ve got him!,” the innumerable and tedious variations on the “rat” caught in his “hole,” countless news items citing the event as George W. Bush’s “ultimate Christmas present”—what does this all add up to? Victor’s justice, with an unspeakably backward and repellent quality to it.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/huss-d16.shtml

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that our media are blood-thirsty idiots. So is Bush. This doesn't make Saddam less evil, but it does make any "victory" more hollow.

Is the world to know no rule but the whim of the biggest bully?

Saddam's capture is a Roman spectacle: the parading of a "barbarian chief" for the distraction of the masses and the tribute of Caesar.

Fuck Caesar and his legions.

over and over and over ......

Whoever invented the split screen for TV news needs to be taken out and shot.

And a ton of them at DU !!

Kick for civilized Progressives!