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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL The Democrats pre-emption strategy Finally, Democrats have a battle plan. This month, they went to war - on the American electoral process. Their pre emption strategy? Call into question the results of the midterms even before Election Day had begun. Brigadier General Nancy Pelosi of the Bth Drapery Division led the charge in an interview with her hometown San Francisco Chronicle last week: Pelosi cautioned that the number of Democratic House victories could.be higher or lower and said her greatest concern is over the integ rity of the count - from the reliability of electronic vot ing machines to her worries that Republicans will try to manipulate the outcome. “That is the only variable in this,” Pelosi said. “Will we have an honest count?” The “only variable”? How about the variable of vot Taking a look at Saddam Hussein’s conviction Josef Stalin died in power, and the old Communist mass murderer avoided punishment - at least, pun ishment exacted in this mor tal world. Contemporary Russia still suffers from the long-term effects of Stalin’s evil dep redations. Unlike Germany and Japan, two other nations once run by mass-murdering cliques, Russia didn’t bene fit from a postwar American military occupation. Check the empirical record: Those history-breaking American endeavors demonstrably hasten a country’s rise from the hell of sociopathic tyr anny. This past Sunday, former Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein received a death sentence for his role in the murder of 148 people in the Iraqi town of Dujail. As these complex affairs go, the ex-tyrant got a fair trial. The overwhelming evi dence of murder and may hem made the outcome a foregone conclusion, but “foregone” doesn’t automat ically mean unfair. Dictators tout some of their crimes. Saddam’s Dujail murders were a pub lic lesson similar to one the Nazi murderers laid on the Czechs at Lidice in 1942. The dictator’s message: Cross me, and I’ll kill you en masse and indiscriminately. Arguably, the trial was too fair to Saddam, given his thrashing antics and politi cal theatrics. But antics and theatrics (designed to play to sensationalist media) and murder of judges and law yers (traditional dictator and mob boss methods) were his best ploys, considering the evidence against him. While serving in Iraq in 2004, I asked several Iraqis what they thought of Saddam's then-impend ing trial and its potential outcome. My “anecdotally polled” Iraqis all knew about Clearly, The Lighting Store is where to go for Christmas Lights. Clearly. c Tlte stcre & Y A Di\: ;ion of Licctncai Supply J 926 Carroll St. • Perry, GA 31069 478-224-8888 T-F 9am-spm SAT 10am-2pm ers making up their own minds? Two days before the elec tion, left-wing Boston Globe columnist Robert Kuttner also advanced the Democrat strategy of pre-emptive delegitimization - which Boston radio talker Michael Graham rightly character ized as “Either We Win Or You Cheated.” Wrote Kuttner: “|Ulnless there are levels of theft and fraud that would truly mean the end of American democ racy, a Democratic House seems as close to a sure thing as we ever get in American politics three days before an election. . . . November 2006 will be remembered either as the time American democracy was stolen again, maybe forever, or began a brighter day.” Meanwhile, a gaggle of left-wing lawyers and col lege students mobilized at the polls to “protect” the integrity of the voting pro Dujail (as well as other big time crimes), and they all agreed that Saddam would be convicted and killed. One fellow added: “We Iraqis should try him and not the U.N. The U.N. would never reach a conviction. Besides, he committed his crimes against us.” By “U.N.,” I believe the man meant the international court in the Hague. Saddam rejected Sunday’s verdict with his usual bluster, arrogance and anti- American tripe. Still, a hang man’s noose may slip around his hoary neck as early as February 2007. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said: “The verdict placed on the heads of the former regime does not represent a verdict for any one person. It is a ver dict on a whole dark era that was unmatched in Iraq’s his tory.” “Unmatched in Iraq’s history” can be extended a bit to read, “unmatched in Mesopotamian history.” A history-breaking, tyr anny-shattering event - but few in the sensationalist media have noticed it. Since the verdict, we’ve already heard a few talking heads sob about “Saddam as vic tim” and the court exact ing “victors’ vengeance.” Though Iraqis ran the trial, the “Western judicial impe rialism” charge is circulat ing among the usual media and academia suspects. I know, The New York Times and John Kerry have told us Iraq is a disaster. Not true. There’s a democrati cally elected government in the potentially most pow- cess. Behind the civic-minded facadeofthese groups, includ ing the Election Protection Coalition and Video the Vote, are far-left radicals whose main concern is not in ensur ing a fair election process -- but in pre emptively under mining and dele gitimizing it. Video The Vote is led by anti-Bush docu mentarians who champion Cynthia McKinney’s race card politics and tinfoil hat conspiracies about 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. The supposedly “bipartisan” poll watchers are supported by Norman Lear’s People For the American Way and MTV Allied with this coalition are erful (predominantly) Arab Muslim nation, a govern ment trying to learn to gov ern and administer under the most trying conditions. It’s a government that is learn ing by doing - and learning often by failure. 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Saddam told the court he wanted “reconcil iation” in Iraq. The offer could be a clever stratagem on Saddam’s part. To whit, Saddam will “reconcile” Sunni and “former regime” holdouts if the Iraqi gov ernment lets him live. The problem with this potential deal is estimating how much WHY ARE YOU SUFFERING, WHEN CARE IS SO CLOSE? if treatment is indicated it could be at little or no cost to you because Workers' Compensation and most insurance companies cover chiropractic care to policy limits. 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