What is it with Bush and the death penalty?

Executing minors and the mentally retarded apparently isn't enough for Bush. He now says that Saddam deserves the death penalty as well:

Bush made clear in an interview with ABC News 'Primetime'
that what happens to Saddam will be decided by the Iraqi people, in the
wake of Saddam's capture by U.S. troops on Saturday. 'Let's just see
what penalty he gets, but I think he ought to receive the ultimate
penalty ... for what he has done to his people,' Bush said in excerpts
from the interview to be broadcast on Tuesday night. 'He is a torturer,
a murderer, and they had rape rooms, and this is a disgusting tyrant
who deserves justice, the ultimate justice. But that will be decided
not by the president of the United States, but by the citizens of Iraq
in one form or another,' Bush said. A White House official said Bush
was referring to the death penalty."

No doubt, Saddam was an evil motherfucker. He will go down in history
alongside Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler. But in the spirit of Lord of the
Rings mania let's pass the mic to Gandalf:

"Many who live deserve to die,
and some who die deserve to live.

Can you give it to them, Frodo?

Do not be too quick to deal out death and judgement."

Even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Posted by flow Frazao on December 16, 2003 at 04:16 PM | Permalink