“Defense attorney David Baugh said al-‘Owhali’s engaged in “killing to stop killing,” referring to the million Iraqis who have died from Gulf War airstrikes and food and medical shortages created by U.N. sanctions. He told jurors it would be wrong to order an execution. “Each of you will have to decide whether to kill someone,” Baugh said. “If state sanctioning makes killing OK, I want you to know the Holocaust was state sanctioned.”” – CNN.com’s report of the arguments of the defense attorney, David Baugh, in the case of Mohamed al-‘Owhali, who was convicted of bombing the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Baugh’s arguments are almost enough to make me support the death penalty.
FLORIDA AGAIN: Since I often criticize the New York Times and since they’re still kind enough to publish me regularly, it behooves me to point out that in the case of the report about Florida’s election issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Times was not suckered like the Washington Post into publishing the leaked report without comment on its bias. One of the reasons I often criticize the Times, I should add, is that it’s still, in my view, the finest paper in the world, and therefore all the more worth criticizing. They’re so good at times, it pains me when they’re not. Here endeth the suck-up.
The Dish 