BAGHDAD — Amidst celebratory gunfire all over Shiite and Kurdish areas of Iraq over the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, doubts are being raised over the actual veracity of the execution, the most notable of which is coming from Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Saddam’s former information minister.  Speaking on Tucson’s favorite television show, Amy Goodman’s "Democracy Now!", al-Sahhaf declared "Saddam and his followers are fighting valiantly against the American infidels before the gallows as we speak.  He is sending them to God, who will roast their stomachs in hell.  Bush’s international gang of colonial bastards is being pushed into the swamp as we speak."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in turn called for an immediate Congressional investigation into further allegations that Saddam would be inhumanely cut into quarters and sent to the four corners of Mecca.

Update: David Roney at Lighthouse Blog reports that his son’s Catholic school has a military uniform ban in place for its Halloween parade.  Of course, military costumes on the university campus typically amount to d****bag "Greek" parties or f***tard anti-war protesters.  Note that my language is typically more reserved than this.

FIRE’s Sean Clark comments in a recent post that censorship of offensive costumes is becoming all-too-common on the university campus.  I do remember one particular instance at the University of Tennessee when a five white students from Jackson, Tennessee decided to dress up as…The Jackson Five.  I’d certainly like to hear what they have to say on fake weapons.  And I don’t consider it beyond the University of Arizona (specifically Residence Life) to pull a censorship move.  The Growler is listening.

Remember: Wilbur Wildcat used to be armed with six-shooters.

FIRE’s website appears to be down; the post is reproduced below:

What the heck is this guy talking about?

It sickens me that Republicans, who always tout their "tough-on-national-security" stance, have resulted to one thing in trying to regain the confidence in Americans before the Nov. 7 general election: politicize 9/11. We have seen this recently with baseless attacks on two of Arizona’s strongest leaders, Democratic Congressman Raúl Grijalva and Gov. Janet Napolitano. The governor’s ultraconservative opponent, in trying to criticize Napolitano for politicizing 9/11 is, ironically, politicizing 9/11. With nonpartisan help from state leaders and Arizonans directly affected by the attacks, the governor turned an idea to establish a permanent 9/11 memorial in Arizona a reality. Rather than criticizing her work, her opponent should stand with her in honoring those who died and the numerous Arizonans who assisted in relief efforts. Republicans have also attacked Congressman Grijalva, who stood courageously when he voted against HR 994, which lost its true focus of honoring the victims and their families when Republicans entered into the bill language that was essentially equivalent to hammering a campaign yard sign at ground zero. The resolution also claimed our "nation is safer than it was on Sept. 11, 2001," when in fact, a recent assessment commissioned by this current government found otherwise. If Republicans actually cared one bit about keeping their jobs, they’d take a big dose of reality and try to remedy the worsening conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq instead of attacking Democrats and politicizing 9/11.

David Martinez III
pre-education senior
president, UA Young Democrats

That’s right, Mr. Martinez.  Completely avoid what the memorial actually says.  If you actually cared about logical debate rather than just winning, you’d stand with those who the memorial insults.  I see you found it in favor of your winning not to say what the memorial actually says that might be controversial.  Go ahead.  Read it.  Publish it in a letter.  Show us why it shouldn’t be reviewed and destroyed.  Justify it line-by-line.  I dare you.

Flopping Aces’ report on the proposed Arizona 9/11 Memorial makes me want to puke just as much as Refuse and Resist did during the 9/11 anniversary.  And guess what?  Janet Napolitano likes it.

I hate to be politicking over this, but what say Len Munsil? 

Correction (9/21): Not proposed.  It exists.  Disgusting.