I picked up the paper today—an actual physical paper, something I don’t do very often—and read about Odai and Qusay and the amazingly well-timed (for the White House news cycle, at any rate) four hour firefight. And then I read this article and I feel, well, disoriented.
Odai, 39, Saddam Hussein’s elder son, was the wolf — a sadist who tortured athletes for losing matches, a womanizer who had henchmen snatch women and girls off the street, a tantrum-thrower who beat underlings and rivals to death, a show-off who collected fast cars and jungle pets.
Um, hello?
Colin Farrell is a womanizer.
Odai sounds like, oh, I don’t know…a rapist? Or a psychopath?
Why the hell did the Washington Post use a term like “womanizer” for a vicious bastard like this guy?
Because journalism is dead.
Odai was a human cancer and parasite who preyed on the people he was supposed to serve. A criminal in government guise.
Virtually all the names they use are pathetic. You almost get the sense they’re trying to romanticize his memory.
Inconceivable!
You said it. Appalling use of language.