Hello, Kettle?

From the Category of Hello, Kettle? This is Pot Calling, here are the two headlines that were shown one on top of the other at Yahoo.com tonight.

1. Bush Chides Iraq over recent executions
2. 34,452 Iraq civilians said killed in '06

I can't be the only one here who finds it ironic that a man who openly defies international law and signed more death warrants as governor of Texas (including that of seemingly-rehabiliated-and-certainly-born-again Karla Faye Tucker) than any other elected official alive today in America thinks that those handling Saddam's execution "fumbled it" and made it look "like it was kind of a revenge killing."

I further can't believe that Tony Snow isn't rushing to help us understand that, while most of those 34,000+ deaths were at the hands of Americans, a whole bunch were due to Sunni/Shi'ite actions. Also roughly the same amount have been wounded. And I'm not even discussing people in prison or who have had to leave their homes. That numbers about a half a million more people.

What an astute guy that Unca Dub is. Pay no attention to the escalating civil war in Iraq or those whose lives have been utterly displaced, be sure to bring in more troops with no discernible current or exit strategy, and for God's sake don't forget to carp about the execution of one badass dictator--not the fact that his trial was outside the realm of international law, just that it seemed like come the day, he was killed revengefully.

And my guy got impeached for the heinous crime of getting some in the Oval Office and then saying he hadn't.

Sources:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views/020900-105.htm