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William McGurn? Idiot. Stephen Hadley? War criminal.

WSJ Columnist: Obama Should Give Stephen Hadley The Medal Of Freedom

In the Wall Street Journal today, President Bush’s former Chief Speechwriter William McGurn writes that National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley has “earned” the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for work that made possible the success we are now seeing in Iraq.” McGurn argues that though “it’s possible that George W. Bush would award” Hadley, it would be better “for the country” if President-elect Barack Obama were to honor Hadley:

Were President Obama to do so, a good man would receive an honor he richly deserves. The American people would see a new president confident enough to acknowledge the success of a decision he opposed. And the world would know that when the United States does leave Iraq, we intend to walk out with honor instead of being helo’d off an embassy rooftop.</em>

To remind Mr. McGurn of a few things:

The war in Iraq was illegal. It was unnecessary. It has taken the lives of over 4,000 US troops, and thousands of Iraqi innocent civilians. It was sold on lies- lies pimped by slime like Hadley.

Hadley should hang- first on the Washington Mall, then once we’re done spitting on his remains, fly the bag sack to Iraq, and hang him again in the public square where the Iraqi people supposedly pulled down the statue of Saddam in glee over his removal. Supposedly, because like everything else about this genocidal debacle, it too was a lie.

These war pigs make me sick.


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