licentious radio

Tuesday, October 7, 2003
[12:18:21 PM]

I'm opposed to the death penalty in principle. And, in principle, I think it's a bad idea to fire people who have made a mistake -- as long as they can learn from it.

But I can't think of any penalty too strong for the people who allowed Iraq's various nuclear facilities to be looted.

I would want this to go through the court system, with full due process, but somebody's head should be cut off, preserved, and stuck on a pole on the White House grounds. And maybe all their nuclear (ha ha) family should have their heads there, too.

Bush, Rumsfeld, Franks, and everybody in the chain of command are in line for this penalty. If Bush were ten percent the man he pretends to be, he would take the full blame for this disaster.

The whole war was supposed to be about preventing terrorists from getting nasty weapons, and these IDIOTS let all the nuclear facilities be looted by anybody with the ignorance or gumption to carry away radioactive materials.

Cheney and Rove are desparate to convince people that Bush is a good leader in the so-called war on terrorism -- precisely because he is a miserable failure at it. Except for right-wing propaganda, people would laugh them out of the room. Bush let Bin Laden kill thousands, then couldn't catch Bin Laden, Omar, the anthrax killer, or even Saddam, *and* he let terrorists walk out of Iraq with nuclear materials to build dozens of dirty bombs. When a Republican talks about how good a leader Bush is, just laugh.

The Democrat who gets the nomination should promise a full accounting of Bush's disasters, including how much nuclear material disappeared from Iraq while Bush left it unguarded.