Saddam Countdown
December 30th, 2006 at 02:30
It appears that not only do I have the ear of those in power in London, I also have influence on those in power in Iraq, too. Just yesterday I posted about the lame news agenda, and now they’ve decided to murder Saddam Hussein. Er, result, I guess.
As you might have guessed, I’m not too happy about this. Not least because the biography of Saddam on my shelf has become out of date – I’m hoping they’ll release an expansion pack or a patch to sort that out.
Its not as if there’s going to be much point in killing him- I mean, they’re stepping up the number of troops out in Baghdad, so they can’t exactly claim that its going to sort out the Iraq mess.
Watching the coverage of this is a bit like the countdown to new year, only with a slight more depressing conclusion. Rather than just “…is that it? I’m going to bed” at ten past midnight, someone’s actually going to die at the end of this. So basically, just like the whale.
I’ve got the Sky Plus set to tape Al Jazeera and Fox News overnight, and I’m staying up to watch the coverage on News 24. Yeah, I don’t have to be up tomorrow. I’m not entirely sure what I’m expecting, other than “Oh, he’s dead now”, and a switch to the past tense, but its bound to be exciting.
I think the people I feel most sorry for in all of this are the Somalis. They tried their hardest to get their little civil war up the news agenda over Christmas by kicking the Islamic Courts out of Mogadishu, yet now once again nobody cares. They’ve had Ethiopian troops intervening and an Interim President returning to the capital yet all I want to see is the end of the Saddam Hussein story-arc. The only way Somalia are going to get any attention is if they do a Catherine Tate and pop-up with something new just after Saddam is dead and buried.
The worst part is that as a viewer I’m helpless. I can’t send in a text vote to decide whether Saddam lives or dies, I can’t vote out the guys doing it at the next election, and I can’t claim to be personally affected so I can’t become a publicity whore for my cause (like Jamie Oliver, for lack of a better example). And I don’t think even Michael Jackson’s lawyers could make Saddam innocent- not in the next hour, at least.
So I’m just waiting for this gruesome spectacle to happen, and for the cycle of violence in Iraq to continue! Hooray!
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