If Bill O'Reilly was dictator, he'd be just like Saddam he says

[Grimmlok]

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has an innovative idea about how to establish order in Iraq: Act like Saddam Hussein.

"On the June 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly declared that if he were the president of Iraq, he would run the country 'just like Saddam [Hussein] ran it,' by establishing curfews and shooting violators 'right between the eyes,'" Media Matters writes. "O'Reilly added that what he proposed is 'not the kind of country I want for Iraq,' but reasoned that 'you have to have that for a few months to stabilize the situation so the Iraqi government can get organized, can get security in place and get the structure going.'"

More excerpts from O'Reilly's Hussein fantasy can be found here, including this doozy: "That's me. President O'Reilly, curfew in Ramadi, 7 o'clock at night. You're on the street, you're dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. OK?"

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

[ohmygoodness]

The way Saddam ruled was the only way Iraq could be ruled as it currently is. His only mode of authority could be only oppression, because of the inherent problems in dealing with people of different religious convictions in that kind of numbers, and the insurgents and such. Right now, Iraq has just been turned into a big training ground against the US for insurgents, who are mostly not native Iraqis. So, therefore, Iraq itself must be changed. I don't know how, I don't think that right now anybody knows how, and people SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BEFORE THEY INVADED.

Fuckheads.

/end rant.

[Aella]

Wow, O'Reilly is showing some refreshing honesty here. I mean yes, he's a crazy motherfucker, but we already knew that.

[Sojiita]

Let O'Reilly go ahead and 'rule like Saddam in Iraq'. Then we can target him for 'regime change' and legitimately(according to current US government thinking anyway) blow his ass to bits!

[Peach]

Did mention what he'd be like if he were a newsman?