In Iraq, Who's Been Worse Than Saddam?

The Grindstaff Chronicles

"Christian" crusader petty little man with well-known mean streak and infamous potty-mouth
A few nights ago, the full moon was beautifully casting moonlight over all our farms and made lights unnecessary on the porch, where this evening Schuyler was busy making cocktails for all the arriving neighbors. Tonight, remembering that golden light, he made a cocktail called a Golden Russian, and used Ciroc vodka and Galliano. For some, he made nonalcoholic Sangría, with an extra pitcher for the younger crowd to drink where they were gathered inside.

With most of our dinner preparations done, we all gathered to talk about something that had been bothering Judy and Bob for a while, and about which we've written before. They thought it was kind of clever how the media had cow-towed to the White House and made it seem like Saddam was really this awful, nasty man who had killed tons of his own people. Funny, Judy said, but this White House, the most morally bankrupt White House since that pile of bricks was erected, was far more murderous and sadistic than Saddam had ever been.

Snap To Attention
At first, you could even the see the silence, it was so sudden and so loud. Then, like a sudden gust of wind, you could hear us all as we spun around to see just what Bob and Judy meant. They explained that those Paragons of Christian Virtue, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Meyers and that sweet piano player, Condosleazza Rice, were all directly, irrefutably responsible for as much killing, torturing, and maiming as Saddam, if you put simple mathematics to simple timeframes. Bush has held sway over Iraq 'x' amount of time, and killed and maimed between 8,000 and 100,000 Iraqis, (more or less 800 per month, 8,000 in 10 months) and that's just since 2001. It took Saddam 37 years, to kill roughly 300,000 Iraqi's, or 8,000 per year.

Judy and Bob apologized to us for not being as eloquent as one of their sources, Juan Cole, of the Informed Comment blog, but thanked him for permission to use some of his data. Prof. Cole is much more articulate. Judy and Bob were just too furious with this sorry thing that passes for a U.S. administration to be as eloquent as Dr. Cole.

We Are Worse Than Saddam
So, Carmen concluded after pondering every filthy detail she had just heard from Bob and Judy, Bush & Co. have dragged us down into the mire, the pig sty, as Condosleazza bangs away at her piano and the mousey librarian holds book fairs that decent women of principle will boycott. What's it going to take, A.J. asked, to clean us after we've been bathed in dung since Dubya usurped the presidency?

And as regards Condosleazza, The Champion of Torture, she probably took Malcom X's words to heart: "If someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

Oh, Sweet Guillotine, Where are You When We Really Need You?
Liz told us that this, from a speech given by Frederick Douglass on August 1, 1860, applies to all the demented sadists in the White House: "They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong." And, of course, a whip is the least of the evils brought down upon the hapless Iraqis by Bush & Co. For the slimy and sadistic way in which this administration has dealt with ordinary Iraqis and "detainees" hopefully they'd receive a public whipping of their shiny black and white hinnies, followed by whatever punishment Osama Bin Laden, the guy The Whacko from Waco has forgotten, deems appropriate.

Ann Coulter, A Sage for the Ages
Ann Coulter, whining like Michael Jackson on steroids, claimed that Bill Clinton sullied the White House more than Bush has. Hmm. Sounds to us like consensual sex between adults is much healthier than slaughtering and butchering, maiming and torturing an entire people, and that's what Bush and his sick, sick, sick minions are doing, miring our country in more manure than we'll be able wash off in generations. But, since the guillotine is no longer used, the dominatrix-in-chief, family and minions, will probably get their just rewards from Bin Laden directly, and ultimately, from Bush's real father, Beelzebub. Oh lordy, can you just imagine that bed? Beelzebub begetting Dubya with Barbara the Barbarian/Catherine the Great? Now that should get Ms. Coulter's knickers in a knot!

Yuk, But Nevertheless, The Youngsters Want Dinner
After announcing, via the dinner gong, that they wanted dinner, now, - the youngsters concluded our outdoor "salon" and asked us to take our places at the dinner table so they could take theirs.

Charlotte, our angel cook, immediately recruited volunteers to help her serve us all small ramekins of Roasted Shallot Egg Custards. Served with the same sherry we had last night, an Osborne Amontillado, we were off to flights of fantasy. No, I'm not kidding, Charlotte is kind of our 'Saintess Cook."
Soon after this exquisite dish, she sent out Buffalo Mozzarella Soup, made with water and Monini olive oil, the apricots and scallions added a special touch that made this a truly delicious soup, especially when paired with Max and Charlotte's Mastroberadino Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio, a minerally, dry white wine.

Max had been grilling some excellent sea bass, adding a few mesquite wood chips to the grill for the last few minutes, and seved it grilled zucchini, Portobello mushrooms and scallions, paired with a lively American dry rosé, a Joseph Phelps Vin de Mistral. After some dollops of watermelon and pear sorbet, to our surprise, Max and Charlotte next served one of their specialities, Black Mole and Chicken, Mexican rice with diced carrots and beautiful peas, and wonderful black beans.

At first we thought they'd serve this spicy dish with beer, but not these gourmets, they served the mole, appropriately, with a somewhat hefty dry Alsace Riesling from Leon Beyer. Fish before a good mole dish is quite normal in Mexico, so there was no discordance here. A coconut granita followed the mole course, mentally taking some of us to the beautiful Mexican Pacific.

Winding Down
Feeling the desire to be close to the children and somehow convey to them a sense of safety in these dangerous times, we joined them in the great room and had our after-dinner coffee with them.

Summary:
Lest we cast the first stone: The U.S. has been just as barbaric as Saddam Hussein, warranting that this administration undergo the same kind of trial as Saddam began to undergo this Wednesday.

©Copyright 2005 Grindstaff Chronicles. All Rights Reserved.
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Reprinted from The Grindstaff Chronicles Newsletter which is published in the USA by farmers, ranchers, and neighbors.

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