What about integrity?

Mark says torturing Saddam might save American lives, but what about innocent lives? Abraham argued with God to show mercy on the unjust to save just ten innocent lives. Are we to believe a soldier counts among the innocent? Was the dropping of the Atom Bomb not the same issue? We slaughter thousands of innocent lives so we can save a single soldier. What difference does it make? Are these men immortal? Did they not choose to live by the sword? Were they not going to die someday anyway? Of what point are Rules of War?

What is it that Saddam possesses that we mush have today, when we couldn’t have had anything yesterday? Had our bombing killed him, would the information not be lost then too? Torture is a barbaric way to compress time. It is a fools urgency. God will deliver us from fear and have the final justice, not us. Our test, is to live with integrity, when no one is watching.

Remember when they pulled down the statues of Saddam?

When you think about it, isn’t an amazing thing to build a statue of a leader who would wage war on his own people? How does one punish such a man? George Bush says the death penalty is warranted. It is amazing how pride can blind a man to his own true actions. He builds a false icon and adorns it with false virtues. The statue and the leader I am refering to is not Saddam Hussein, but Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln did everything that Saddam Hussein did. Not only do we have a Lincoln Memorial, George Bush practically sleeps in the man’s bed. That would be a historical first. A death sentence given by one president against another, of the same country!

Am I unamerican for suggesting that we should tear down the Lincoln Monument? No, but that may not stop some from accusing me. I hope they don’t torture me for my secret plans, since I don’t have any. I think we should vote on it. Just kidding. That would be a waste of time. Let it stand there and deteriorate intentionally, like those Buddhist statues in Afganistan.

Voting on it would be like passing a Constitutional Admendment to protect the flag. Really dumb. You should see the crappy flags I see flying. We should hold a contest for the most disgraceful one in the country. We love false icons, but we hate taking care of them. We have trouble recognizing the difference between a symbol as a graphic image and what it is we claim to be. It is the same difference between how we claim to be moral and righteous, and then how we actually treat others.