Margaret Beckett Disgusts Me

[poliphilo]

This country abolished capital punishment when I was a kid,  so why is a British foreign secretary welcoming the death sentence that's just been passed on Saddam Hussein?

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

in the gym in the morning, there are televisions. Three of the five stations are sports, one is CNN and one is MSNBC and that's Imus. He offends me no end, but sometimes there are happenings on his program that make me...laugh. And think. This morning they were interviewing a man on the street (right outside the Port Authority terminal) about the elections. He said he was voting democratic because he thought the War in Iraq had gone on long enough. And the reporter said "Oh, so you want to cut and run?" The man actually had a good answer for that one. Then he was asked if he agreed with the death sentence for Saddam and he said absolutely not. He thought Saddam should be put in jail *all alone* for the rest of his life, but that killing was not right.

(He was also asked which he thought was worse, Rush Limbaugh making fun of Michael J. Fox or the thing with Haggard, and he said "Both.")

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hanging people is wrong. Killing in hot blood is one thing; killing in cold blood in the name of the state is disgusting.

As for "cutting and running", From what I hear the Coalition presence in Iraq is achieving nothing. Our troops have gone from being the proposed solution to part of the problem. I read a quote from a British soldier who said, "now, we're just another tribe."