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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (107334)	7/23/2003 9:36:23 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

. . . .Shakespeare was inflicted on me against my will [and I refused to learn the stuff], . . . A classic post, sir. You have my congratulations. But I've run out of refrigerator door space so it will have to find another home.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (107334)	7/23/2003 2:13:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>> I wonder whether it wouldn't have been better to take them to Den Hague and line them up for a multiyear trial like Milosevic is suffering. Now there's some cruel and unusual punishment. Being kept in prison for years, neither guilty nor innocent but with fleets of lawyers and journalists and associated carrion feeders pecking away at your eyes and bones.<< Great rant. ;^)

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (107334)	7/23/2003 2:30:30 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mq, the way I see it, Qusay and Uday were human beings only in the strictly biological sense of the word. However, they seemed not to possess any of the qualities that make anyone human. In fact, quite the contrary, especially the sadist. Hence, it is difficult for me to feel anything other than a sense of relief at the news of their death. This sense of relief makes me cheer their decease. Fewer humans are going to die, be tortured, be injured, etc., as a result of their demise. Their living victims will feel a sense of relief to hear that their torturers are gone, not an insignificant positive psychological event for them. Why is this something to wring one's hands about? The Sakespearean dramas involved complex characters, motives, irony, etc., none of which are present here. They were simple, cruel bastards and the world is better off without them. Perhaps the French would have acquitted them post-trial after concocting some intellectually dense rationalization for their actions centered around how their actions were the product of their environment, legal within the codes of conduct prevalent in their hell-hole of a country, etc. Me, I'm glad some US infantrymen found them and that they gave the GIs a reason to use 2.75" rockets on them. My only problem is that they were not monitored after being found so as to determine the location of their meretricious father. A shame that they didn't all go down the gurgler together, family-style.