I was disappointed with the responses to my diaries on Iraq's first mass execution since the invasion, so I won't be surprised to see this one slide down and off the list.
They just killed 13 people.
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
That doesn't sound like a newsworthy event in Iraq, I suppose. But here, of all places, people should recognize the moral implications of this act.
This wasn't a car blown up by some nutcase. These weren't amred men shot on the battlefield in a kill-or-be-killed firefight. This was a mass hanging of unarmed individuals by a government for which Americans are dying.
Who were these men? Why were a bunch of them killed at once? Seriously, maybe I'm overlooking something, but I'm thinking the cynical calculus is that one story about thirteen executions doesn't invite the scrutiny that would be paid to thirteen separate executions. Way to prove them right, SCLM.
And what the hell is this:
U.S. military officials who oversee the Iraqi justice system said they keep records of the number of Iraqis who have been executed since Sept. 2005. But they could not immediately provide those figures.
Do they suck at their jobs that hard? Who the fuck can't keep a fucking tally? Can we these officals' names and ranks and at least cut the Pentagon's budget by their salaries next year?
And where's the Democratic response? Do they imagine that the ruling party has the right to impose its values on the invadee du jour? Where's the outpouring of how-dare-yous that would greet the Stewart/Colbert administration toppling Indonesia to install a pro-gay-marriage government there? I don't think one even has to be anti-death-penalty to oppose this sort of hubris.
Out. Immediately after torching the gallows.