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gezzam
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Australia
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 Posted - 12/14/2003 : 05:34:08
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The US has Saddam.....
It's all a little cloudy at the moment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3317429.stm
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 12/14/2003 : 06:27:26 [Permalink]
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| Found hiding in a hole in the ground, scruffy beard and all. That's bad/good enough. Really a humiliating image of him for the Iraqi people to see. One thing more humiliating for Iraqis would be if he had been captured cowering as a woman. Course, the arresting troops could has just said they captured him in woman's clothing, for the ultimate propaganda coup. |
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| Edited by - Randy on 12/14/2003 06:28:42 |
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
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Posted - 12/14/2003 : 06:42:04 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Randy
Found hiding in a hole in the ground, scruffy beard and all. That's bad/good enough. Really a humiliating image of him for the Iraqi people to see. One thing more humiliating for Iraqis would be if he had been captured cowering as a woman. Course, the arresting troops could has just said they captured him in woman's clothing, for the ultimate propaganda coup.
They do say the DNA matches though.......though THEY have said alot of things over the past couple of years
They would not come out like this unless they were positive that they had him......the next few days WILL be interesting, that is one fact.
Guantanamo for Saddam........lol
It is good news though.....I hope the citizens of Iraq take the opportunity and put the the cradle of civilisation back in it's rightful place, on the history channel, not FOX News. |
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| Edited by - gezzam on 12/14/2003 06:47:16 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2003 : 09:56:41 [Permalink]
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Yup, he's got. Somebody puked on him and is 25 mil richer, if the story is straight -- a rarity these days, although I think that this one is. It is my further understanding that ultimatly he will be tried and punished by the Iraqis, which is right and proper as it was they that bore the brunt of his greed and insanity.
The real question is: What now?
I do not think that Saddam's capture is going to make a lot of difference in the current situation. I think that he became pretty much irrelevent not long after he started his down-the-gopher-hole act. There are simply too many armed factions in Iraq, each one intending to be, or at least to strongly influence, the ruling party. There are also a lot of old scores to settle -- I wonder if our newly-minted, multi-millionair will live to enjoy the bread. And it must be remembered that just because Saddam was roundly hated by his people, it does not necessarly follow that they love us.
At this point, I don't see where much has changed. Mayhaps I'm wrong.
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Espritch
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 12/14/2003 : 19:48:06 [Permalink]
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| Filthy pretty much sumed up my feeling. Getting Saddam is a plus, but it won't really resolve the problems in Iraq. The violence is more anti-America than pro-Saddam. There are a lot of factions fighting for a lot of different objectives. That isn't likely to change as a result of this. |
| Edited by - Espritch on 12/14/2003 19:48:57 |
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