Surprisingly Literate

Cheers to the Brad Blog's Brad Friedman, for writing (on the Brad Blog and Huffington Post) one of the best uses of irony I've seen in a long time.

Not because it is particularly any more apropos than any other, but because for ONCE, an author doesn't insult our intelligence by assuming that if he doesn't point out his meaning, we won't get it. The entire text of his post:

Saddam Hussein's intolerable use of weapons of mass destruction against enemies; unprecedented aggression against and occupation of a country which posed no threat to his own; routine kidnapping, torture, murder and secret prison system; wholesale slaughter of citizens from other countries; imprisonment of political rivals held for years without charges; and secret spying on his very own countrymen without court order or legislative approval, demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that this so-called "President" was a dangerous rogue, a tyrant, and a grave threat -- of the highest order -- to worldwide peace and democracy.

His immediate removal from unelected power was...and is...a completely justified imperative.

(And anti-kudos to one of the early commenters on the post on Huffington Post, for proving why so few authors are able to do this kind of thing intelligently, because the sad fact is, far too many of us DON'T get subtle satire.)

Liam.