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January 15, 2008
President Bush And His Awesome Sword
On the surface, this photograph from an event today at Al Murabba Palace in Saudi Arabia is just another unfortunate snapshot of our 43rd president being a dingus on the world stage. Below the surface, however, it's not so funny-haha.
They're called "Chop Squares."
CBS News: A condemned convict is brought into the courtyard, hands tied, and forced to bow before an executioner, who swings a huge sword amid cries from onlookers of "Allahu Akbar!" Arabic for "God is great."
Saudi Arabia is notorious for its public beheadings of criminals, homosexuals, women, Christians, witches and the like. Many of them innocent. Some of them children -- despite international sanctions against it. At least 136 public beheadings were carried out in Saudi Arabia in 2007. Perhaps you saw the gruesome footage of a public beheading in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911.
On yet another day when the American economy has been forced to genuflect before the Saudis, it's nice for our president to explicitly remind us that one of the world's most awful human rights violators is actively buying our sovereignty... at a discount.
UPDATE: Compare the executioner swords in the video below with the sword our president is playing with above. (Don't worry. The video is just an interview.)
UPDATE 2:
Posted By Bob Cesca | January 15, 2008 11:57 AM | DIGG ME!
Comments
Well he oversaw what, 131 executions? So as the man in the video says, I'm sure you just get used to it.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/061700-102.htm
Posted by: lnbno13 ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.bobcesca.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 15, 2008 01:31 PM
I wonder if the executions are what attract Bush to the Saudis or the Saudis to Bush. When they are dinning together, I wonder if the argument of who killed the most people ever comes up.
Posted by: the_truth at January 15, 2008 02:43 PM
Oh isn't he just the funniest thing? Playing with his little friends.
Sad, sick, pathetic little twerpus.
Posted by: basheert at January 15, 2008 03:27 PM
Christians, eh? What's stopping them from beheading the on right in front of them? Oh, I guess money.
Posted by: FrictionSoul at January 15, 2008 06:37 PM
I love the way he thanks god for making his conscience go away. That's just great.
What is it about that country that we like so much? I can't put my finger on it...
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at January 16, 2008 10:46 AM
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