War for dummies...

So a jury refused to legitimize the ridiculous and absurd death penalty hail mary shot of the Justice Department by sentencing barely sentient whackjob Zacarias Mousaui to death for being a worthless stooge in the 9/11 plot. Meanwhile, the real culprits are in U.S. custody, completely unable to be tried because we're torturing them for what is by now worthless information. Whatever relevant information they possessed could have been obtained by legal and effective means that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement have been using for decades. But no, the utter morons that work for this Administration have exempted these jerkoffs from prosecution by using torture and making everything they say inadmissible.

Despite the bad rap Juries get in this country, they managed to make the right decision here. Sentencing this geek to death was exactly what he wanted, insofar as he know what he wants. It makes him SOMEBODY to the audience that he cares about, his pseudo friends in Al Queda and the audience in the Middle East looking for another excuse to hate the United States.

I have a fresh idea, how about we stop doing what these guys want us to do. Aside from the action in Afghanistan, we've handed them victory after victory. The Invasion of Iraq, the abuse and torture at Gitmo and Abu Ghirab, and the failure to bring the plotters of 9/11 to public justice is exactly what they want. It's victory after victory for the bad guys because our guys are too arrogant and too stupid not to play into their hands. Iraq is perfect for Al Queda. They get to hurt the United States, drain it's resources, ruin it's image without committing any serious resources or manpower. It costs them money, but they seem to have plenty of that.

Class, does anyone want to venture a guess why Al Queda always seem so flush? Anyone...

This trial was a sham. A sham like the fake alerts conjured up everytime the White House had a bad news cycle, like all the prosecutions that never got off the ground, and like this President war against terror. He's not fighting a war against Al Queda, at least not very well. They cough up the ball, and then pretend they are still on offense. And a pathetic and intimated press corp, at least the parts that don't work directly for them, are too corrupt, too weak or just too incompetent to call them on it. Mousaui was a worthless nut who should go to jail for his meager participation in a plot to murder innocent people. He's going exactly where he should go for justice to be served, into a hole where he will be forgotten in a few days. This isn't high strategy or brilliant tactics, it's the simple and obvious play.

Well, to everyone who isn't Dick Cheney...