It’s official… Bush has my vote and that’s final. This's why

I just watched an episode of cover to cover that left me glassy eyed and mad enough to kill. It was about child prostitution in places like Pnom Phen. They showed brothels where they were selling children as young 5 years old for the evening for $30. What does this have to do with Bush? I'll get to that. First I need to rant a little. I'm probably going to mix this up a little. Bear with me.

For starters, those of you against the death penalty are crazy. IMHO, if you can produce video from a hidden camera of a man or women offering to sell you a child for the evening (like they did with no problem on this program): Not only should you should be immune from all prosecution but you should be paid a hefty reward for stopping the offending black-heart from beating. I'm dead serious here. In thirty-six years on this planet, I've never seen anything quite as sickening as a child reacting with glee at the prospect of being bought. There isn't room on a civilized planet for people like this. I would propose a $1,000 reward for each dead perpetrator. That's about 3 years pay for your average citizen of Cambodia.

If you don't share my rage, or feel my solution is reasonable; take a look through your family photo album and pay particular attention to the photos of the children while considering this crime. This has got to stop.

Among the customers interviewed during the program was an American Doctor who travels there several times a year to take advantage. He explained that if you don't go for the very young you can avoid prosecution because the American law covering foreign behavior reads you have to "knowingly" have sex with a minor before you are in violation. What he didn't know was that President Bush signed into law a new bill that makes the act itself the crime without the loophole of intent, rightfully placing the burden of age verification on the potential offender. The Department of Homeland Security is currently preparing a case against this doctor. Guess what folks; Cambodia and most of the other leading offenders don't have oil, or much of anything else we want. I don't see how Bush and Co. benefit from cracking down on these disgusting rogues… any more than the rest of humanity.

Saddam Hussein and others like him rule their countries by fear. Dissention can lead to having your children raped and killed right in front of you. This, my friends, is an even worse crime than the one that put me in this murderous rage in the first place. State sponsored abuses, indeed, State performed abuses like this need to be addressed. What better justification for war could there be? I've read so many people calling this an "unjust war" and I just don't get it. Do people not know what horrors Saddam ordered? Do people not care what horrors Iraqis suffered? Do people really believe that nothing can be done to stop State sponsored atrocities? Is it too expensive? How much money is too much to spend saving people from watching their children get raped and murdered in front of them, by the police no less?

Saddam's men… his own son for crying out loud, had a reputation for his habit of kidnapping young girls for sex slaves and then murdering them when he tired of them. Are we now so desensitized to horror that we can take that with a grain of salt? I also hear people saying, "It wasn't our responsibility". This may be true, depending on whether or not you feel the strongest among us has a "responsibility" to defend the weakest among us from evil. I've asked dozens of men if they would stand idly by while a woman or child was raped. Every one, to a man, said NO. Strangely, many of these same men answer the opposite when the question is extrapolated to a country. I can only conclude that State sponsored rape is more palatable to some.

Whatever mixture of reasoning Bush used to conclude Saddam needed removal, he did NEED REMOVAL. Many of you know me pretty well now, and I think it's high time you let me send you the audio file referred to in my signature line. It's only a 171kb and will only take a couple minutes out of your life… though the message may stay with you longer. It won't hurt you, I promise.

In conclusion: Children the world over need to be protected from rapists and murderers. Saddam and his crew were both. No, I don't think we can lay a security blanket over the entire world. But it's high time we stop tolerating the blatant violators. Saddam was that. And this, is why Bush has now officially secured my vote.

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