Ding, dong the Moammar’s dead

 

To hear Ronald Reagan tell it, Moammar Gaddafi was evil personified. Those whose loved ones were among the 259 who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland, may have felt that way as well — and with what many say are good reason.

Gaddafi is one of the list of dictators and mega-mass murderers who have now been hunted down and executed. His end came after weeks of NATO bombing and no telling how much covert help from the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. Gaddafi ceased to exist after being shot by his captors and, if he wasn’t already dead, being beaten by crowds through which the murderous dictator was dragged today.

Under Shrub Bush it was Saddam Hussein, who also threatened Bush Sr., and between the two Bush presidents came two U.S. wars — who got his comeuppance. Under Barack Obama it has been first 9/11 driving force Osama bin Laden and now Gaddfi. Now there was no way out for the GOP to avoid praising Democrat Obama, the main GOP hate obsession, for the SEALS cornering and killing Osama. But this close to the 2012 presidential election — one year away — the Republican haven’t even heard that Obama had anything at all to do with the way the Libyan uprising turned out. This includes the killing of Gaddafi. That figures. What a bunch of chickens**t politicos.

Not all bad guys get theirs’ but some do, even it is by the forced hand of suicide. Here are just a few of the more prominent:

Adolph Hitler—1924-1945—Suicide
Hideki Tojo—1941-1944—Captured, tried and hung after attempting suicide.
Saddam Hussein—1969-2003—Captured in a spider hole, tried and hung
Benito Mussolini—1922-1943—Overthrown, shot and hung by his heels
Osama bin Laden—1971-2011—Hunted down, shot by SEALS
Moammar Gaddafi—1969-2011—Shot by rebels and beaten by mob

It’s kind of like some folks I knew back in the 70s and 80s who seemed to live on never-ending cocaine binges. Some quit. Some didn’t. For those who didn’t it seemed to them as if they were on the top of the world, until it killed them.

Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be dictators and terrorist leaders.