Sunday, July 27, 2003

What to do with the bodies: Well, my preference is to drop them in Mt. Aetna; but, I guess someone would try to make a shrine out of it. It might be wise to consul the Iraqi Interim Council. When it was said that the family could retrieve the bodies, I say NO. (Well, unless it's Saddam who comes to pick them up.)

The bodies belong to the Iraqi people and the decision of what to do should be by Iraqis. When you consider that most of the family is of the regime, it seems like an undeserved favor to turn the bodies over to them. Thoughts of dragging bodies through the streets are not pleasant, and that may be why the decision was made to turn the bodies over to the family. But...it might be wiser to have a some service, cremate them, and scatter the ashes in an unknown spot in the ocean.

I never felt that you shouldn't "speak ill of the dead." If a person were disgusting in life, speak the truth when they are dead--within reason. You don't get to do horrific acts while living and become saintly in death.
This week, Q & U were killed. It seems that questions about whether or not it was really the two sons of Saddam are fading away. Should we have killed them, maybe capture was better? Why did it take so long? Why were the bodies displayed? On and On..... Looks like the Fedayeen believed it. We must have convinced an enemy, but not those considered allies or "friends."

Did anyone (in the media) take a deep breath before they jumped on to the next...darn those Americans?

Okay, I admit it, I'm an American. I do look at information with a bias toward the U.S. position. But, I'm not blind; and, we aren't perfect. Who is? We won't always do everything 100% correctly. That doesn't mean we can't improve. It doesn't mean we won't try to improve. And, it doesn't mean that we are bad people.

We didn't capture them. It took a few hours just to kill them. To those who yell that we did it wrong, you should have told us that before we did it. I believe it was better that it was swift, sure, and final. They won't be coming back. And, every self-respecting body-double should ....run.
To the technologically challenged, any change could be frustrating. To the old, "new and improved" are not kind, gentle words. Upgrades are a challenge to overcome; and, I'll keep trying. You can get little accomplished if you don't try, and try, and try. Wow, sometimes, it's really trying. (It worked and could be edited...)