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GOT HIM!

Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 7:21:51 am PST

Saddam Hussein Captured Alive Near Tikrit.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Without firing a shot, American forces captured a bearded and haggard-looking Saddam Hussein in an underground hide-out on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency by the ousted dictator’s followers.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer told a news conference Sunday, eight months after American troops swept into Baghdad and toppled Saddam’s regime.

“The tyrant is a prisoner.”

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1 dennisw  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:23:13am

The real freak show now begins since it looks like he will get a trial.

2 Macker  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:23:28am

I love what Joe Lieberman said: "HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!"

Ain't that the truth.

3 hans ze beeman  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:24:08am

Ace of Spades! YEAH! Congrats to the Iraqis, I shout and celebrate with you!

4 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:24:32am

In reaction to the news, celebratory gunfire erupted in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq. Radio stations played celebratory music and people drove through the streets of the capital, shouting, "They got Saddam! They got Saddam!"

Earlier in the day, rumors of the capture sent people streaming into the streets of Kirkuk, a northern Iraqi city, firing guns in the air in celebration.

"We are celebrating like it's a wedding," said Kirkuk resident Mustapha Sheriff. "We are finally rid of that criminal."

"This is the joy of a lifetime," said Ali Al-Bashiri, another resident. "I am speaking on behalf of all the people that suffered under his rule."

5 fred  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:24:32am

That's not Saddam. It isn't even a good body double, he's too fat.

DNA evidence takes weeks to confirm, it has to be fake.

/conspiracy mentality

6 FreakyBoy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:24:32am

Got him...and his head lice too!

Way to go.

7 Vancomycin  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:24:55am

Yes!!!! I woke up and heard this on NPR and thought they were talking about what to do to catch him.

This is great news!!!!

8 The Law Student  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:25:22am

Headline in tomorrow's New York Times:

SADDAM CAPTURED - Democrats and Islamonazis hardest hit.

9 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:25:28am

Nice news to wake up to, eh, Charles?

10 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:26:07am

The most important thing I can think of to say on this momentous occasion is -- will Saddam get a fair trial? And do you think he has dry socks?! Oh, and I bet he has enough info to bring down Halliburton!!11!

(Late to the party, Charles)

11 ebbe  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:26:15am

saddamize the bum!

12 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:26:28am

He really does look like Spock's nutty brother.

13 Targetpractice, King of the Britons  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:26:43am

10 months ago, he was sitting in his golden palace and laughing at the assertion that the US would topple his regime and put him in chains. Now we find him, 9 months later, sitting in a hole in the ground and looking like Jerry Garcia. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

14 Saddam  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:27:18am

Got away again, tee hee!

15 Pablo  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:27:36am

Top of the morning to you, Charles!

"The tyrant is a prisoner." Sweeter words will not be spoken today....unless we also scrape Osama off the walls of some cave.

Props to the 4th ID on a job well done. Quagmire looks pretty good this morning, doesn't it?

16 dennisw  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:27:47am

Saddams trial location will be a magnet for terrorists and Saddam will get to make his case to the Arab Muslim world and leftist fellow travelers. To the UN lovers too.

Saddam will go the Milosovich route and try to use his trial as a soapbox. The longer the trial drags on the longer he gets lush prison accomodations. Will we and Iraquis have the balls to pass a death sentence on this mega-thug?

17 Paul  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:30:34am

Got a wake up phone call from my brother-in-law. Put a shot of vodka in my V8 juice, cranked up Sousa on the stereo, gave a salute to the men of the 4th Infantry Division. Wow!

18 rabidfox  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:30:37am

Wonderful! Great! Halleloulia! Hossana! Whoopee! What's even better is how far down he's come. Just the current state he's in should give some of his followers pause - no longer the legendary, shadowy, bigger that life figure. Just a pathetic, lice ridden bum. I expect to see a flood of new information to come in about his activities. YEAH!!!! Worth waking up for.

19 lb  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:03am

yay charles! finally you're awake!

20 Right Brain  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:08am

I thought I would knock out the text for the NY Times to save them the bother:

ELECTED PRESIDENT OF SOVEREIGN NATION ARRESTED BY INVADERS

Tikrit, Iraq. Hardliners at the Pentagon this morning chortled as they claimed to have taken into custody the elected president of the latest sovereign nation invaded by a smirking George Bush whose election is still in dispute. The popular President Saddam Hussein, who garners strong support both in his country and in Europe, was roughly trussed and manhandled into a truck by low paid young men typically from the South. He was then shaved on national television in a fashion that one observer likened to a Jew being shorn by the Nazi's. Democrat front-runner and voice of reason Howard Dean declared that this was "punishment before guilt, a new low for the Bush regime. Everyman deserves trial by the extant laws of their land. None of which allow Pres. Hussein to arrested." Neo-Hawk Senator Clinton suggested ”a blood drive to give constant transfusions after his feet are cut off," this in order to allow him to remain conscious until she announces candidacy. Senator Lieberman was seen firing his AK-47 into the air in downtown Greenwich CN. However the Times survey found that most Americans disagreed with the bullying tactics of what many call an Imperialist Army, saying that President Hussein should have been served with a warrant and released on his own recognizance. This survey was taken among festively dressed adults 50-55 living in downtown San Francisco.

21 TAS  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:12am

On CBS this morning: Joe Biden said that if we can capture Osama and Mullah Omar and stabilize Iraq and the president gets re-elected, that's just fine with him, and best for the country.

Dean replied "Yeah, but he looks like Moses!"

22 ak  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:22am

...can't wait to see the cockroach get squashed.

USA!

23 rang1995  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:28am

now lets sit back and wach the Dems/liberals spin this as a negative...biden doing this right now on fox

24 Footy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:37am

Markets all over the world report a rush on razors and Drano by leftists, socialists and some Democrats

25 -=@$$=-  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:39am

my infidel stomach is feeling roasty toasty warm this morn.

one simply must go to democratic underground to see the dispeptic mumblings of traitors. what's the opposite of schadenfreud called, where one derives regret and dissapointment from the good fortune of others? it's like 911 in reverse over there.

nazimedia global and chicago both have posting disabled in order to save the spirits of minor threat/moby fans everywhere. let's be there to give them the good news when it comes back up.

26 Gary Bruce  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:42am

Looks like Justdanny is going to make our lives miserable for a while--he called it yesterday afternoon. Hear's to ya. You're no longer "just" danny.

27 ushie  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:31:47am

Now I really will dance! Dance as I have never danced before!

If only I could dance on his corpse!

28 Ellen  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:32:03am

Good morning Charles. I think this news calls for a nice cigar and your favorite tipple.

29 PALESTINE IS FRANKENSTEIN !!  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:32:35am

fIRST sADDAM
tHEN Bin LAden
and third, Chirac

30 Elizabeth  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:32:42am

YEEEEEEEEEEEES!

Boy oh boy, did you see that hole he was living in. Six feet down to a pit in the ground. Living like some underground animal. That's a long way from having your bum on a gold toilet to take a dump.

Now it's time to string him up with electrical cord and hang him from a hook in the ceiling with his hands hooked behind his back till he tells us where Ashad has the WMD! (But of course, we're too civilized to do that--aren't we??)

YEEEEEEEAAAAAY!!!

31 Doug  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:32:46am

Kerry on with Chris Wallace desperately trying to spin this every which way - it's good, could have been done sooner, should have had more int'l support, haven't given enough attention to world AIDS (seriously), he supported the ouster, he didn't support the war - what a sad spectacle.

32 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:32:55am

So far, here is a sampling of LLL ugly uber-lib responses:

"Who cares, he never did anything to us till we invaded his country.

Where is Osama, you know the man who financed the 9/11 attacks.
The man who travels with medical equipment yet we still can't catch him."

&

"Americans seem to have believed the initial bullshit they were fed about Hussein's involvement with Al Qaeda or weapons of mass destruction.

The reasons used to justify the invasion of Iraq would also justify the immediate invasion of Israel. "

pathetic.

Go to:
[Link: www.thecreatures.com...]

click on “SADDAM CAUGHT” and read what the entity called Lynn and SCO have to say about it.

LLL ALLERT!

33 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:33:39am

ahem - that's "Alert"

34 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:33:46am

This so-called "focus" of Dubya is stereotypical behavior among recovering alcoholics.

/moonbat therapist

Joe Lieberman said: "HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD!"

Looks like he can kiss any residual chances of getting the Dem nomination goodbye. :(

I bet he has enough info to bring down Halliburton!!

LOL James!

The UN/World Court is going to put up a BIG fight over jurisdiction.

35 PALESTINE IS FRANKENSTEIN !!  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:33:57am

Biig show of turning over the 25 million, and we will get Bin Laden out of his rat hole

36 Eric Winfrey  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:34:15am

Surreal: Saddam lice and beard hairs already being auctioned on Ebay:

[Link: cgi.ebay.com...]

37 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:34:24am

Wow.

38 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:34:42am

#26 Gary Bruce

What thread was it on? I keep hearing about these fabled justdanny posts but don't know where to look.

39 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:34:51am

#33 -

Be alert.

We need all the lerts we can get.

;)

40 Former CNN Watcher  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:35:07am

Separated at birth: Karl Marx and Saddam Hussein

Compare:
[Link: www.lucidcafe.com...]

41 newscaper  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:35:41am

HOLY $HIT!!!!

Awesome!

[and that's not a term I ordinarily use]

42 bgmacaw  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:35:44am

I've been humming Beer For My Horses since I woke up and heard the news.

Ah...but there is hope for the LLL...

FOX News: President Informed of Capture Saturday Afternoon

You see, Bush 'lied' again and saved the news a day to undercut Democrats appearing on Sunday morning news shows...whatta cheap dirty political trick.

43 Pablo  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:36:11am

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the "legitimate resistance against US occupation" continues to murder....Americans???? No, it continues to murder the Iraqis tasked with promoting peace and stability in their own country.

20 killed in Iraq bombing

What would Dean do??

44 AG in Houston  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:36:23am

I was talking to people at the gym. Everybody is simply ecstatic.

I wonder what the LLLs of the world are saying right now? I think I will go and check out the Liberty Forum.

45 Judith  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:36:46am

CNN just reported they read him his rights a la USA Miranda laws, in his own language of course. Ain't America great? Long live and free and democratic Iraq.

Anyone catch the new Iraqi flag the current President showed off while crowing happily about the good news. They removed the words Saddam had put in.

46 TAS  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:36:49am

I understand they got the necessary info by interrogating recently captured prisoners - no 25 million payout.

47 AG in Houston  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:28am

#42

Beer for my horses is a great song. Very apropos.

Too bad Willie Nelson threw his support beihnd Kucinich.

48 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:41am

#44 AG in Houston

So far I've heard everything from "Hillary's visit to Iraq inspired the troops to do this" to "Saddam will take down Rumsfeld with him" to "the U.S. doesn't have his DNA".

49 beta Capricorni  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:41am

... and what should be the lead "readers' commentaries" provided by the BBC on their website?!?

Funny how Saddam Hussein appears in the news just when both the American and British Governments are struggling to gather support for their respective 'Presidential' campaigns. This fantastic piece of detective work has the same smell as the reason the war was 'inaugurated'.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Idiotarianism lives.

50 Evariste's Zaide  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:44am

Before he's hung in a public square in Baghdad, he should be placed on display in an elevated, bullet proof box for a few days.
Naked.
Without a pot to piss in.

51 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:46am

Slightly OT... Charles, someone's been posting as VFI the last few days. Does she have a reprieve? Is she posting from a different IP? Or is it an imposter?

52 Curious  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:46am

Great news.

53 ak  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:48am

44

who cares what the LLL's are thinking AG.

54 -=@$$=-  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:37:56am

no, you're all wrong. it's jack elam.

55 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:38:14am

The justdanny post.

56 Orbit Rain  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:38:18am

w00t!!!

:D

57 Short Fat Corporal  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:38:46am

Do y'all see the docility in Sodamn's demeanor on the tape?

He knows what he has done to others is just a custodial transfer away from happening to him.
He has been living in holes since the night the 117's dropped our little surprise on him.
He has seen his sons lying on sheets, covered in blood.
He has seen his legacy pulled down in the streets of Bagdad.
He has seen pictures of "his people" reviling his image.

He KNOWS that he is defeated. Prime meat for good interrogators.

It's even better then the defeat on Rather's face right now :>

58 Targetpractice, King of the Britons  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:38:57am

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just witnessed the end of Dean's chances at the presidency. Long live Lord Bush, the Boy King! YEEE-HAAA!!!

59 AG in Houston  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:39:29am

AK

Your brother works for the fire department, doesnt he?

As for the LLLs, I am simply curious.

James

I figured as much. I thought Saddam was hiding out in Tel Aviv?

60 doppelganglander  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:40:01am

What great news to wake up to this morning! As my 11-year-old daughter put it, "You go from living in a palace like a king, to having US soldiers check you for lice. That's gotta suck."

61 H.R.H. King Lerxst  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:40:01am

#40

Dammit, that's what I was gonna say! ;)

62 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:40:16am

There's going to be a news conference at 11 with the soldiers who took him down? Did I hear Linda Vester on Fox correctly?

63 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:40:23am

I think this calls for a good old-fashioned Redneck yell.

*scares the neigbhors. returns to normal*

64 ak  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:41:22am

AG

my brother and I both are volunteer fireman.

He's a captain (Southside) & I'm an Lt.

65 Gary Bruce  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:41:38am

James: It was on yesterday's "Moonbat Alert" story, around the 200 post mark, if I remember.

66 Jonathan  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:41:40am

Great news for the Iraqi people!

Maybe we should head to Uzbekistan next, where the dictator boils people alive and regularly tortures prisoners. No, wait, we're friends with him. I forget why. OH YEAH! He's housing our troops. And isn't he willing to sell us some oil?

I love selective humanitarianism, don't you?

No doubt I'll take a bit of flack for this post, but it's not really debatable.

(Before you respond, remember that disputing my content is far more effective than ad-hominum attacks, but do as you please.)

-Jonathan
WiredOpinion.com

67 Laurelin  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:41:44am

Rock ON! Sorry, Democrats, but we won this war.

Hey, Salam Pax! Whaddayasay?

68 John Gibbon (Abu Barney and Friends)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:41:57am

Biggest Losers:

EuroWeasels

Dhimmicrat 9 drawfs

Palis (I expect many angry protests)

Hillary Clinton (forget even 2008, baby!)

Saudis (oops, we have a democracy to the north! how did that happen!)

and Of course, SADDAM,

69 Yishai  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:42:10am

Yeah!!

I was reading all of the celebratory and positive reactions of the Iraqi people.
But wait! The US occupation of Iraq was a BAD thing! They should be sad! There should be increased violence! Uprising!

Booyeah Baby.

Sing along guys!
NaNaNaa Na, Nananaa Na, heeyHeey, Goodbye.

70 abu cannoncocker  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:42:25am

the command post has a link up saying; "Palestinians Saddened by Saddam Capture". The link doesnt seem to work. Anybody have any further info on this? not that it suprises me they're saddened.

71 Quana  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:42:31am

I suppose my neighbors are awake now. I am still ululating and gun shooting on the back porch (ok, you know I'm kidding about the 'gun shooting', right? I am, however, taking a cue from some other posters, drinking a little "toast" to the troops). A second post at LGF on this most important day (I wanted to get in under the 300+post wire, again.)

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Charles, for Little Green Footballs. I read the news first at Rantburg. Then I sped over here to watch the postings and to wait for Charles to wake up and post this. I'm still laughing at the hilarity of the posts (not to mention all the cogent comments as well, yanno.)

Ha!

Now the phone has started ringing with all my octogenarian/nonagenarian relatives asking me "Is it true?".

Ha. I believe America is now awake. Good Morning!

72 AG in Houston  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:42:50am

AK

I know...

I am very good friends with Champ.

We work together, office right next to each other.

Veeeeeeeeeeeeeery small world.

73 Dave  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:43:05am

The tyrant is a prisoner.

What a fantastic day in the world. Read more, plus on Saddam's definite link to 9-11 at [Link: www.aurepublicans.blogspot.com...]

Thanks!

74 Donna V.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:43:13am

I woke up just a half hour ago, switched on the TV, and there was Saddam. Except I didn't realize at first it was Saddam. I've seen people sleeping on park benches and muttering to themselves who looked like movie stars compared to the character I saw on TV. I thought "Jeez, what a hideous mug to see first thing in the morning. Who is this loser? Some al-Queda thug? A captured serial killer? Or this some segment on healthcare for the indigent?"

Then I heard the voice-over saying Saddam Hussein and I literally jumped into the air and did a little dance in my bathroom (my hair, at this moment, looks no better than Saddam's, although it's considerably cleaner).

This is a great day.

75 Curious  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:43:21am

#57 Short Fat Corporal

He knows what he has done to others is just a custodial transfer away from happening to him.

I agree he's docile and knows the game's up. However, although he's for the chop, his manner of death will be more than he deserves, unless he's handed to the Iraqis to be lynched.

What he deserves:

To be held for a year, given electric shock treatment every day then finally fed through a shredder.

What he'll get:

Hanging, quick bullet.

Hand him over to the Hague and he'll get compensated for having his 'human rights' violated.

76 Sean Crowley  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:43:58am

It's morning in Iraq!!!!!!

77 Jeff S.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:44:08am

#54 -=@$$=-

Can't be Jack Elam, his eyes are both pointing in the same direction....time to scrape up some DNA from Qusay and Uday and play the match game.

78 Judith  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:44:19am

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

[Chorus:]

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
We’ll all meet back at the local saloon
We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

Actually, I read somewhere beer isn't good for horses. Still it is a good song.

79 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:44:59am

How did justdanny know, and how did evariste know?

80 lurkiethegooddog  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:13am

#20
Perfect--we'll no doubt see something like it soon.

#45--
If they read him his Mirandas, does that mean he's getting a U.S. trial?

81 AG in Houston  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:24am

The ripples of Saddams capture...

82 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:26am

#79 zb

I believe justdanny is serving somewhere out there and heard talk.

83 Nexus  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:53am

YES!!!!!!!!!!
WAY TO GO GUYS!!!!!!! BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL MONTH(except for my wife telling me I'm going to be a daddy)

84 ak  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:53am

good news travels fast zulubaby

85 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:46:55am

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Bush knew!!! (okay - he knew on Ssat)
;)

86 Donna V.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:47:09am

Correction to my post 74: I did a little dance in my bathrobe, not my bathroom. I do not dance in my bathroom.

87 RightIsRight  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:47:43am

YES. Oh glorious day.

The moonbattery has started over at DU:

"it was probably set up before the war many of these insurgents have huge ammo dumps, military grade weaponry and military training using things like mines, mortars, rocket launchers, explosives.
This was obviously planned before the war."

"Was this worth American lives? $300+billion? Has it made us more secure?
My answer is NO! Throw the usurpers out of the White House!"

Nothing like a good moonbat rant to go with my late morning java.




#20 RightBrain Hehheh very close to reality.

88 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:47:47am

Saddam sure is a mighty Saladin. Reminds me exactly of the migthy Nebuchadnezzar in fact.

89 Short Fat Corporal  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:47:58am

75 Curious

My bet is he eventually goes to the Iraqis. It is almost a necessary thing as far as establishing their sovereignty.

I don't see President Bush making the mistake of giving Sodamn to the UN trash.

But, damn, it makes you feel good :>

90 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:48:10am

#23 range 1995

now lets sit back and wach the Dems/liberals spin this as a negative...biden doing this right now on fox

Natl Pinko Radio has hit the ground running. Lean Hanson (sp?) interviewing someone (don’t know who) asserting that “the Americans may well be investigated for serious violations of international law” if Saddam is tried in Iraq.

Kerry's on with Brokaw now, whining about Haliburton.

91 abu cannoncocker  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:48:53am

#75 Curious

I don't think Iraq has the death penalty, since they do not have a constitution yet. I think Saddam will get the Hess treatment and die a sad old man, guarded by Americans, in a prison, in Iraq.

92 EU boy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:04am

#363 cba (from previous thread)

Thanks for the reference (differences between trolls and those who simply have differing opinions). One of the reasons that I like lgf is because I get to see the opinions of people with a radically different view of the world. That said, is there a mirror image of lgf somewhere which has European/Left slant? - it would be interesting to see their take on this news.

93 Alex  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:22am

I can barely believe what I"m hearing. Kerry sounds like a complete idiot right now... It's pathetic.

94 johnCV  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:29am

#20 Right Brain

That will be the story, but they will use more quotes from influential and important world leaders like, 'Red Ken' Livingston and Arafat to show the 'true' injustice of it all.
CNN this morning was saying that only 'a few' were gathered outside to celebrate the capture. That asshat aaron brown even asked if they could get a wide shot of the crowd to show how few there were.
Just like they do with the protest marchers....

95 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:34am
Lean Hanson (sp?) interviewing someone (don’t know who) asserting that “the Americans may well be investigated for serious violations of international law” if Saddam is tried in Iraq.

To quote W, "International law? I'll call my lawyer."

96 DCCLXX  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:43am

The reaction in Arab World:

West Bank.....Arafat stunned (has no official comment).
Al Jazeera ....... A once great Arab leader who alone stood up with defiance to the Zionists and the hated US Imerialists is being degaded and shown in an undignified manner for all to scorn.
Kuwait.......everyone expects Stock Market to spike tommorrow.
Everywhere else in Arabland.....Mass confusion, Shock and Awe, torn feelings, pity.

The reaction of non-Muslim world:
USA.....home of the brave and proud.....just serving the cause of Justice with resolve and modesty.
Everywhere else.....curious and generally supportive.

Congrats to everyone involved especially US 4th D.

97 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:43am

He looks like crap.

98 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:49:54am

I tried posting this on IdiotMedia (main site), but received the following error message:

Publishing has temporarily been suspended while indymedia people work to finish the migration to new servers and new code. Please be patient.

Hmmmm...sounds like that excuse given by IdiotMedia Israel. (No posts in almost 24 hours.)

The giveaway was "indymedia people WORK". C'mon folks, you can't fool me.

99 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:50:33am

#83 Nexus:
Mazel tov on the impending fatherhood. Hint to you (and even more so to your wife): get all the sleep you can NOW.

#86 Donna V:

I do not dance in my bathroom.

Why not? I dance wherever the hell I please.

100 Laxmi  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:50:41am

Want to see the Mordern Karl Marx?

Saddam's Mugshot

[Sorry Marx, to associate you with a swine]

101 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:50:54am

The UN can eat shit. Do you think those stupid little blue-helmets would have ever found Saddam? never!
It took OUR genius boys to do it!

I am so proud of all of our soldiers! Cheers to them!

102 TAS  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:51:12am

John Kerry on NBC now :

... time for the president to start getting it right ... halliburton ... great moment ... haliburton ... no - bid ... better way ... not a legitimate coalition ... United Nations ... parents of those kids ... multilateralism ... not go-it-alone ...

103 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:51:25am

Iraqi leaders confirm saw Saddam in U.S. custody, say he tried to jusify his crimes (Reuters)

104 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:51:26am

Zulubaby:

Reminds me of...

"I am Number One."

"But ya look like Number Two, if ya know whut ah mean."

105 fly_killa  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:51:29am

Hoorah! I just can't wipe the stupid grin off my face.

I hope the Iraqis give Saddam what he deserves.

#66 - Do you have to rain on our and the Iraqis' parade? Why don't you go paint some WTO protest signs or something?

106 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:51:52am
17:08Palestinian cabinet minister says PA will not issue officials response to Saddam`s capture (Israel Radio)

Hahahahaha. No shit.

107 zipity  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:52:04am

Man, listening to NPR and their reporting on Saddams capture has an almost disappointed tone to it. WTF? Unbelievable. First it was "Well they haven't got Saddam yet...." And now it's "Well, yeah they got him, but they still haven't fixed this country that has been decaying for 20 years in the 6 months since we won the war....." I don't know which is more surprising, that they are so blatant in their biases, or that I am surprised by it.

108 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:52:08am

Donna V - Go on - dance in the bathroom - I am!

109 Partizaner  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:52:17am

Saddam's first words: "Mind if I call Mark Geragos?"

Today Saddam, tomorrow Arafat.

Bravo to the US Army and Donald Rumsfeld, Princeton '54.

110 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:52:26am

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arabs greeted the capture of Saddam Hussein with divided emotions Sunday, welcoming the arrest of a dictator yet tinged with regret that a symbol of Arab defiance against the United States was behind bars.

The Balestinians are somber {sob}:

In Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians are fighting against an Israeli occupation, some were in somber mood that the United States, perceived as providing unswerving support for Israel, could claim victory.

"It's a black day in history. I am saying so not because Saddam is an Arab but because he is the only man who said 'no' to American injustice in the Middle East," said Fadiq Husam, a 33-year-old taxi driver in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

But the Kuwaitis couldn't be happier:

But in Kuwait, occupied by Iraq in 1990-1991, the reaction was one of joy. Some cars honked horns along a seaside road that during the occupation had been lined with Iraqi army positions. Others sent mobile phone messages to spread the news.

"We are so happy they got him...The people of Iraq have been brainwashed by the Saddam regime. They need another 20 years to realize that the Kuwaitis are not to blame for the Iraqis' plight," said Kuwaiti Mohammad al-Hudieb, cruising the Arabian Gulf seafront in his jeep.

111 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:52:46am

James (#82)

Thanks. I'm still half asleep, haven't had time to check the other threads.

112 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:53:28am

#92 EU boy:
You're welcome.

113 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:53:35am

#66

GAZING with pity.

114 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:54:04am

I wonder if the Telegraph's story about Atta was tied into this?

115 CrusaderGirl  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:54:48am

Why is this guy working for the Americans?

"At the Palestine hotel, where foreign journalists and American contract workers are staying, Abil Daoud was sad.

"We lost our only hope and now we are stuck with the Americans," said Daoud, who is employed by U.S. troops as a local security guard."

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Will someone ther eplease fire this Fedayeen member?

116 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:55:37am

#66 Jonathan -

You spelled "ad hominEm" wrong.

117 Steve  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:55:40am

TOUCHDOWN! enough said

118 J.D.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:55:45am

I'm more than glad that the haughty-looking-John-Kerry-who-served-in-Vietnam is so anxious to get on television and make an utter fool out of himself again. Someone who cares about his campaign ought to get him off it until they can come up with something at least semi-intelligent to say. Sheesh!

Let 'em rant. So much the better!

119 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:56:24am

Trial in San Francisco.

Oh, what a scary thought.

120 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:56:38am

My 70 year-old dad just called. "Are you watching Kerry? What a DICKHEAD!!"

Love ya, Dad.

121 Jack Murray  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:56:50am

I love it. He's one of the assholes over there preaching to people to die for allah. To die in honor, to fight until the end. Where did we find the scumbag? In a little ditch hiding like a little bitch! The subsequent events are going to be pretty damn interesting. Talk about the OJ trial, I can't even fathom the circus to come.

122 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:57:08am

Frank IBC (#104)

LOL. He obviously hasn't been keeping up his beauty regime.

So, he lived through his sons being killed. I hope he felt the pain of that, the same pain he caused countless other parents.

123 Laurence Simon  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:57:31am

Give that man a a red hat, a red suit, and a sack full of C-4 toys and he'd be a great Santa Claus.

124 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:57:49am

#92 EU boy

Another good troll indicator is that TROLLS DON'T BOTHER TO READ THE THREADS THEY'RE CRAPPING ON.

If you had, you would have seen many posts with links to the LLL agonizing over Hussein's capture.

125 Short Fat Corporal  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:58:11am

66

Sure, we'll get to Uzbekistan.

AFTER North Korea, Syria, Iran,Saudi Arabia, The Palestinian Authority, Cuba,...

Now will you allow us to take out dangers to democracy worldwide first?

Or are you just trolling?

126 Melissa  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:59:31am

I'm too late to pass out candy to the crowd here, but I am saving two special pieces: one for justdanny for cryptically alerting us to this news nearly 12 hours before the lamestream media and the other for LGF for providing the best, most up-to-date info from the Middle East.

Actually, instead of candy, I think I'll make my Christmas donation to LGF early this year.

127 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:00:15am

Did you see all that cash he has with him? What's he buying? LOL.

The soldiers in Iraq must be grooving.

128 Zack  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:00:46am

You could hear NPR's collective teeth grinding this morning.

I heard the (celebratory) gunshots, but people in Baghdad are very unhappy. - Julie McCarthy, NPR, Baghdad
Iraq is still a very troubled country. - Steve Inskeep, NPR, Washington


Pathetic.

129 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:01:59am

I was just woken up to the great news!
Sasddam is looking good!

130 cba, modest (yet surprisingly thoughtful) Jew  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:02:06am

#125 Short Fat Colonel:

Or are you just trolling?

No, he was just being Thoughtful.

131 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:02:12am

This is a nice Christmas present for everyone, eh? President Bush must be feeling gooood.

132 Craig  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:02:38am

#86 Donna,
Many people sing in the shower, so why not dance in the bathroom? :-)

133 Doug  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:02:44am

#31 me
#93 Alex
#102 TAS
#118 JD

Great minds think alike, and I don't think we saw one on display this morning in this case!

134 Nancy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:03:15am

This is terriffic

I wonder if this --that they apparently found out where he was --has a connection to the story yesterday re. Atta.

Someone raised it in the other thread that the GWB war on terror may have been to track down the persons and evidence and that they KNEW Sadaam had supported the 9/11 hyjackers.

Whatever even the LLL are going to have a difficult time finding something "bad" to spin about this.

135 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:03:32am

From White House

From Messopotamian

136 Radian  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:03:36am

Die his beard and hair white and he'd look like old st. nick. i see someone else is thinking the same thing..

McCain suggested the unit that captured him wack up 30 million.

137 Curious  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:03:38am

Apparently they found, as well as the cash and a couple of pistols, an 'orange and white taxi'. Wonder what he was intending to do with that - paint it yellow and hide in New York? (Might be a bit of a give away if a customer haggled over the fare and he threatened to put them through a shredder.)

138 Ayatollah Ghilmeini- Believe in the Victory  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:04:02am

Saddam will be tried by his people. He will be convicted of millions of murders. He will be convicted for crimes against humanity. He will be convicted for theft. He will be convicted for rape and ordering rape. He will be convicted for virtually everything he did for the last thirty years.

The significance of this cannot be overstated

139 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:04:07am

ok Saddam... obviously I just woke up. After all, I said he looked good.

140 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:04:13am

#126 Melissa

I think I'll make my Christmas donation to LGF early this year.

Excellent! And while you're being overcome by seasonal motivations, how about some love to the troops? Operation Gratitude is an easy way to do it.

141 cba, modest (yet surprisingly thoughtful) Jew  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:04:35am

#134 Nancy:

even the LLL are going to have a difficult time finding something "bad" to spin about this.

Nah, they're already doing it.

142 Short Fat Corporal  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:04:49am

130 cba

I just looove being Thought at by the Incredibly Thoughtful; it always makes me feel good to bask in their Presence and Knowledge :>

143 Doug  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:05:10am

#120 Add Brianstein & his dad. It's unanimous!

144 Sergio  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:05:11am

Woo-ha!!!!

Maybe this will finally show ohter regional dictators: You can't hide forever from U.S. Special Forces.

As Lieberman said: Hallelujah and Praise the Lord.

And for awesome all-day comedy relief, check out with Al-Reuters, the BBC and other Saddam allies are saying. They are so depressed and miserable, they are just showing their positions utterly to the whole world. While Iraqi celebrate the BBC cries for Saddam.

This is just too awesome.

And if anybody didn't see the best Saturday Night Live gag last night in probably five years: Gore (played with perfection, as always by Darrell Hammond) endorsing Dean (while Dean looks unsure) by saying that he (Dean) will ally with Saddam against Bush.

Priceless.

145 Doss  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:05:14am

Hell Yeah!!!!!!
I'd like to see the big statue of Saddam that we toppled, the one shown a thousand times on t.v., brought back into service as the spot that he's hanged from. We could have the rope descend from the wedge spot between his thumb and finger on his outstretched hand. Poetic justice and all.

It's probably a good time for another look at another shaggy-assed, lice-infested John Walker Lindh and (I can't remember his name) the other terrorist they caught in Paki with his disheveled beard and hair wearing a dirty wife-beater. Maybe also have a pic of the crusty corpse-heads of Uday and Qusay. The five pics together would be a nice visual compendium of where terrorism gets ya!

146 mommydoc  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:06:55am

What a great day. Once more, I am grateful to our armed forces. Every last one of them.

But in my joy at his capture, I am still saddened by te realization that no matter his punishment, it will not bring back a single nameless person in one of those mass graves, nor a single one of our fallen servicepeople.

I think the most fitting punishment would be to bury him alive. Perhaps in the same spider hole.

147 Judith  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:06:55am
"It's a black day in history. I am saying so not because Saddam is an Arab but because he is the only man who said 'no' to American injustice in the Middle East," said Fadiq Husam, a 33-year-old taxi driver in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Poor Palestinians just don't get it, do they?

148 ushie  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:07:12am

Donna, you must dance everywhere!

LLL/But we paraded him on camera! We violated his rights by the Geneva Convention! We violated his body by testing him, shaving him, and treating his head lice!/

Hiding in a "spider" hole. I thought of Shelob. Hope Saddam gets gutted, too.

149 Curious  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:07:55am

145 Doss

Te terrorist they caught in Paki was Khaled Sheikh Mohammed. He looked like a disgusting slob.

It's important that these 'heros' are thoroughly debunked.

I love the fact that Saddam had a dentist peering into his mouth, like you would with a camel. Given the shame/honour culture of the Arabs, this is real serious humiliation.

150 Dar ul Harb  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:08:15am

#40,#100:

Thanks,

Already made that joke... :)

151 EU boy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:08:37am

#124 Thom

If you had, you would have seen many posts with links to the LLL agonizing over Hussein's capture.

Yeah, there's slots of mentions of LLL, but no links that I can see. Nice of you to just discount me like this though.

152 Thor  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:09:01am

Hopefully this will succeed where sunlight and crosses have failed and kill Hillary's political career.

I hope they bury him in the same hole they dug him out of, after the Iraqi war crimes tribunal's done with him.

153 RebelPOW  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:09:55am

Nice job, 4th ID!

154 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:10:33am

#114 Frank IBC- The timing is miraculous albeit suspicious. Blood debt carries alot of weight in those parts.

155 Henry S.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:10:35am

Truly, a great day!

#50 Evariste's Zaide

Before he's hung in a public square in Baghdad, he should be placed on display in an elevated, bullet proof box for a few days. Naked.Without a pot to piss in.

Sorry, David Blaine's already done that :)

I can't wait for Tony Benn and George Galloway to create the "Saddam Hussein Legal Defense Fund".

156 Short Fat Corporal  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:11:07am

OT:

According to Brokaw/NBC, somebody tried to blow up (Pakistani Pres) Musharraf today

157 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:11:29am

Um... kindly cluestick this gentile - Shelob?

158 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:11:33am

Palestinians pained by Saddam capture

For many ordinary Palestinians, the TV footage of a disheveled Saddam obediently submitting to a medical exam by his U.S. captors was painful to watch: it sealed the defeat of the one Arab leader they felt always stood by them.
159 Nancy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:11:34am

What is also important and likely won't get that much coverage is WHO and WHAT was responsible for the Iraqis being able to celebrate having been freed.

hundreds of Iraqis flooded the streets of Baghdad, firing guns into the air, singing, dancing and throwing candy into the air -- celebrating the apparent capture of the man who had ruled their lives with terror and repression for more than three decades.

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

160 Sergio  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:12:15am

Mommydoc, once they put him on trial, the relatives of all the people he killed (well, the ones that have relatives, he often disappeared whole families at a time) will have a chance to confront him directly.
And it will give the rest of the world (those who care) a chance to carefully review Saddam's relationship with his many allies - France, Russia, Germany, the other Arab dictators, leftist professors and their boyfriends and girlfriends in the media, and, of course, the BBC.

161 Gary Bruce  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:13:04am

What a great day. It's snowing here in NYC, appropriately.

162 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:14:14am

#158 zulubaby,

Palestinians pained by Saddam capture

No doubt. I suppose I'll read that one to to hear about the pain of the "poor Palestinians."

163 -=@$$=-  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:14:24am

from the bbc comments:

I'm a bit sad that it puts an end to this battle of David against Goliath. We must acknowledge that Saddam Hussein is a cunning, if not a talented leader. He may look defeated, tired, dejected but when you think of all the means deployed to get rid of him, it's just a tremendous achievement to have been able to survive.
Bernard Franck Dehlinger, Ris-Orangis, France

my stomach is roastin'!

164 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:15:18am

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the Moonbats compare the shaving of Saddam to the picture of the Polish Jew being forcibly shaven by the Nazis.

Doss -

I would prefer that you not stereotype my preferred upper-body clothing in such a manner.

;)

Mommydoc -

Great to see you again - and on such a happy occasion!

Re: Nine Dwarves -

It's 1984 all over again. :)

165 mommydoc  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:03am

Sergio (#160) I hope you are right.

brianstien (#157) Shelob was the spider who attacked Frodo in the Ring trilogy. Not, in this case, a Jewish reference. :-)

166 Dar ul Harb  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:06am

Which gets more coverage in 2004?

The Trial of Saddam Hussein

or

The Trial of Michael Jackson

167 SoCalJustice  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:12am

Amazing work by the 4th I.D. and Task Force 21. This is great news. It's a snowy sunday in D.C., and I'm loving this wall-to-wall coverage. The coalition rocks.

(#158) zulubaby

Call me a partisan, but that's one of my favorite elements of this story... ;-)

168 Who's Sane?  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:20am

#144 Sergio


And if anybody didn't see the best Saturday Night Live gag last night in probably five years: Gore (played with perfection, as always by Darrell Hammond) endorsing Dean (while Dean looks unsure) by saying that he (Dean) will ally with Saddam against Bush.


Uh, no....Hammond played Chris Matthews.

169 abu-Hoo-Hoo  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:31am

I've heard each of the coalition of weasles have sent congratulatory messages to the white house, i guess the gesture translates to: on monday, both they and the u.n. will be demanding for his incarceration and trial in the hague but also immediate private access with him.

170 Donna V.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:16:38am

cba and Free Speech: Hell, I'm dancing all over my apartment today, including the bathroom!

You know, I used to think that it would be better if we killed Saddam and saved the world the cost of a trial, but this is much better. Finding him cowering in a rat hole - he can't be portrayed as a martyr or a hero or anything other than what he is, a cowardly POS.

I'm going to visit some the Iraqi blogger sites to congratulate them. That Baathist bitch Riverbend must be having the bends right now.

171 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:17:12am

The wheel of fortune that life is. From living high on the hog to losting EVERYTHING a man could lose in a little under a year. Well, except for his health. Hopefully he has hemmerhoids.

172 Kirk  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:19:15am

Squeeze all the information you can out of him then turn him over to the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites. They have a very large, dull chipped axe to grind with saddam.

173 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:19:15am

#165 mommydoc

Doh! Put a cone on my head and call me the village idiot.

174 Ginger Liz  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:19:48am

Actually, #66 does have a point. I was reading about Uzbekhistan this morning, and it is a sorry situation there.

But first, Zimbabwe.

175 ushie  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:19:53am

Yup, #157, Shelob the evil spider.

Sorry to bring up the "racist" LotR!

Man, I can't stop feeling gleeful about the Evil One's capture! And his disheveled state! I must dance again!

176 Ms. Andi  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:20:08am

What a wonderful thing to wake up to. He's not looking so good without the hair dye and pancake make-up. I wish I had a rifle to shoot off from my balcony like he used to do.

177 crown_of_feathers  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:20:34am

I can just see the placards in Paris now, from Les Chauve-souris De La Lune:

"Free Mumia! liberté a Mumia!

Free Saddam! liberté a Saddam!"

178 Gary Bruce  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:20:57am

The tales he will tell of France, Germany and Russia will be the real story from now on. That had to be an issue in whether to get him alive. Now we're going to roast the weasels very very slowly in public.

179 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:21:06am
During the past three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Saddam sent millions of dollars to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including US$25,000 for the family of each suicide bomber and US$10,000 for each Palestinian killed in fighting with Israelis.

They should hang Saddam from the lamp posts. Didn't he used to like to do that to kids?

180 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:22:58am

#151 EU boy

{sigh} Idiot.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Oh. And "DU" is "Democratic Underground". Get a clue, then come back to condescend.

Better yet, don't.

181 D. Edgren (the Merciless Infidel)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:22:58am

I saw the picture before my pre-coffee eyes could focus on any text...

I thought maybe the Unabomber had escaped, or something. Anybody out there who is Ph.D material have any thoughts about "whacko affect?"

Anyway, what a great day for freedom and small "d" democracy (as opposed to large "D" Democrats, for whom I'm sure it, and some days to come, will suck).

Tip to Joe Lieberman: Joe, we know you are a basically sensible guy at heart. Ditch the rest of those losers, come out in support of Bush after denouncing your party for the buncha asshats that it has become, and show yourself as the patriot that we all hope you really are. You would be choosing...wisely.


D. Edgren

182 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:23:39am

I hope that rathole where they found Saddam isn't indicative of the vast tunnel network purported to run between Triangle area and Baghdad. Maybe an unused an unknown spur.

183 hcq  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:24:09am

#137

184 quark2  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:24:36am

Yep! Charles is awake!

I'm off to church, after such a stunning awakening earlier this morning.
If you missed the french looking Kerry spewing on Fox news this morning, you missed a good gaffaw.

I'll be back later to catch up with the posts. Y'all keep the opines a coming!

zulubaby....**hugs**!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!

reaganite....**salutes** HooAhh!!!

Oh yeah, RWC: We watched ALL of Band Of Brothers on Fridaynight/Saturdaymorning....I have fallen in love with that band of bros. Again....HooAhh!!!

185 QueenEsther  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:24:41am

ulululuulululululululululu!!!

(As long as we're sharing stories, somehow I find this great news even more personally gratifying, having heard it come from the gravelly, accented voice of a wonderful Israeli who fought in the Yom Kippur War! )

Bless our troops! Bless the President! G'd bless the USA!!

186 Dar ul Harbarian  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:25:06am

I hate to add a small cloud on a bright day, but I give it a one in a hundred chance that he has some sleeper cells in the US with instructions to launch WMD attacks upon his death or capture.

187 Perplexed  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:25:45am

Why do I get this feeling the Sadam already has a lawyer named Shapiro or Leibowitz?

188 President Chirac  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:25:53am

He's Alive and talking???

Oh shit oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.....

189 Ger  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:25:59am

Baruch ata Adonai eloheynu melech haolam, who guides our leaders and troops to acts of bravery and justice!

190 Paul  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:26:15am

Captured alive in a spider hole; a sad end for a man who just recently received 100% of the popular vote.

I'll drink to that.

191 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:26:22am

I sincerely hope that his trial is televised world wide. That will give the Assads, Arafats, Mubaraks, and other fascists in the ME a little fortelling of what is coming for them.

192 Pablo  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:26:25am

#151 EU Boy

Yeah, there's slots of mentions of LLL, but no links that I can see.

Try post #'s 32, 49, 110. Perhaps you could also figure it out without being led by the hand.

Nice of you to just discount me like this though.

This is the price you pay for commenting while not paying attention to the subject at hand. Here in the US, we refer to it as "talking out of your ass" By definition, such commentary is immediately discounted.

193 D. Edgren (the Merciless Infidel)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:26:55am

BTW, I wonder if Weasilly Clark will want SH locked up in one'a them Dutch prisons, too?


D. Edgren

194 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:27:24am

I'm Saddam.
Yes I'm the real Saddam.
All you other Saddam can all kiss my bottom.
So won't the real Saddam...
Please bend over
Please bend over

195 Nancy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:27:51am

It is being reported that Sadaams second wife aided authorities in locating him.

[Link: www.iol.co.za...]

196 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:28:38am

Mommydoc -

Shelob was the spider who attacked Frodo in the Ring trilogy. Not, in this case, a Jewish reference.

ROTFL!!! I thought the latter!

Now can someone explain the "Golem" reference in "Ramble On", by Led Zeppelin?

Golem, the Evil One, slipped away with her...her...her

197 cba, modest (yet surprisingly thoughtful) Jew  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:29:38am

#188: LOL!
#189 Ger:...shehecheyanu ve-kiyamanu ve-higiyanu la-zman ha-zeh!

Blessed are you, HaShem our G-d, Ruler of the Universe, who has kept us alive and brought us to this day!

198 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:30:14am

PDM -

Uh, is that by REM?

199 XJ Nerd  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:30:53am

A big frosty mug full of Victory (Brewing Co.'s tripel). Ok, it's a bit early to be drinking, but I'm making an exception. U-S-A! U-S-A!

200 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:31:36am

# 193 BTW, I wonder if Weasilly Clark will want SH locked up in one'a them Dutch prisons, too?

There will be a strong push to have them do just that...
The LLL moonbats are already calling for SH to be tried in the Hague. I say set up a tribunal with 3 judges, 1 Kurd, 1 Sunni Arab, and 1 Shi'a Arab. Lay all of the evidence out...every murder, torture, corrupt arms deal..etc. Only possible downside I see...there will be a lot of info that comes out regarding the backing the US gave SH during the 80's, but all for the better. In'shallah, he has a tall tree and a short rope in his future...

201 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:31:58am

#195 Nancy:
Wow!

Well, they did say an Iraqi provided actionable intelligence.

But his own wife?!! I'd love to know the back story on that one.

202 Doss  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:32:20am

#149 Curious....thanks. That was what I thought his name was, but when I did a Googel Image search, I couldn't find a pic of him all scruffified, so I figured that I had the wrong guy. (I have a lot of trouble keeping all these Arab names straight and often mix 'em up)
Here's Khalid not exactly looking his best link
John Walker Lindh
Uday and Qusay corpses


#164 Frank IBC....You mean that you're not married? He he... :)

203 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:32:24am

Ms. Andi (#176)

I wish I had a rifle to shoot off from my balcony like he used to do.

LOL! Good idea ;-)

quark2 (#184)

Hugs :-)

204 QueenEsther  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:32:34am

#179 zulubaby
Zulubaby, read Terrorist Hunter!!! After the 6 Day War, the author's (anonymous/Rita Katz) father was accused of spying for Israel, and hung in the Baghdad town square with two others -- with belly dancers below them entertaining the crowd of 500,000.

205 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:34:40am

Ms. Andi -

I wish I did to. Condo politics would be so much easier. ;)

206 Eric Sivula  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:35:12am

Frank that is Gollum, aka Smeagol. The creature that follows Frodo through the Two Towers and Return of the King. The thing that had the One Ring before Bilbo found it.

207 Targetpractice, King of the Britons  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:35:39am

Wait a sec, anybody know if Cochrane is still in the US? Somebody go check and see if he hasn't already boarded a plane bound for Baghdad.

208 hcq  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:37:21am

oops. Let's try again, preferably with some small motor coordination.

#137 Wonder what he was intending to do with that [the orange taxi] - paint it yellow and hide in New York? (Might be a bit of a give away if a customer haggled over the fare and he threatened to put them through a shredder.)

Pretty clear you haven't tried haggling with many NYC cabbies :)


Did I hear right - that Maj. Gen. (?) Odierno says Saddam was armed with a pistol?

209 Dar ul Harbarian  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:38:01am

OT

Today is the one hundreth anniversary of the Wright Bros. first flight.

Yea.

210 Tara  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:38:28am

Woohoo! Yes! Finally! Life is so sweet sometimes. I love the fact that he was living in this shitty hole, meanwhile he had all this ridiculously lavish palaces not too far away. Yeah he got exactly what was coming to him and I am so happy this is finally happening!

211 J.D.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:39:35am

#200 Jaffar

I wonder if Weasilly Clark will want SH locked up in one'a them Dutch prisons, too?

Well, no doubt he'll want to know what Chiraq thinks we should do.

212 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:40:20am

#198 Frank IBC,

No, it's the new "Saddam is behind bars" version of this
"The Real Hussein (Slim Shady Parody)"
[Link: www.madblast.com...]

213 Jonathan  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:40:58am

66 - Frank

You spelled "ad hominEm" wrong.

...I guess you proved me wrong. I have nothing more to say...

214 observer  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:41:15am

158, zulubaby

In the last graf of the JPost story you link, two Palestinians are quoted about Saddam: "I love him so much..." said one.
Permanently poisened minds.
Not even De-Saddamization or De-Arafatization would work on this generation--just as De-Nazification didn't erase the ideology of old Nazis.
If--a huge if--change comes to the Palestinians in any other way than force (expulsion or...), it could only happen over 20-30 years or more.

215 Donna V.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:41:27am

I object to those who say Saddam looks like Santa Claus. Only if you're talking about some drunken perv who applies for a Santa job so he can get some kiddies sitting on his lap.

Actually, I think he looks like the Missing Link.

mommydoc, good to see you! I know it's a bit early to break out the champagne, but hell, it's a special day. (Passes out the virtual (kosher) bubbly to one and all.)

I'm sure the Palis and the LLL's aren't the only ones with long faces today. I wonder if Chirac, de Villipin and a few other EUnichs aren't suffering from the runs and cold sweats today. Imagine what Saddam has on them.

216 Geepers  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:42:34am

PDM (#194),

GOT HIM !

217 brianstien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:42:41am

Who needs the Sunday funny papers? The moonbats are flapping at DU:

I don't believe it - it's too pat - and what - no film crew ???


. . the USA had LOTS of footage for the Lynch "rescue"

. . Personally - I am still of the opinion that it is a double

. . the USA would never allow the REAL Saddam to talk to anyone, - he has more dirt on the USA and it's WH illegal antics ( e.g. supplying WMD's to himself and others) than any scandal rag could even dream about.

The REAL Saddam will never be allowed to speak out to the media as long as the BFEE has any say about it, and IF it is the REAL Saddam, he will undoubtedly end up suffering with the same (drug-induced?) amnesia that Jessica developed.

218 observer  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:42:51am

#214
oops...
"poisoned"

219 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:42:54am

D al-H -

Interesting coincidence!

220 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:43:42am

#206 Eric Sivula:
I think Frank's referring to Shelob, a creature of spider-shape, of the spawn of Ungoliant, who dwelt in the mountains on the western borders of Mordor.

221 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:44:31am

Atta trained in Baghdad
This should be interesting when it pans out.
All the LLL moonbats who couldn't entertain the notion that a secular regime like Husseins could be in cahoots with Islamists are in for a rude awakening...

222 Amy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:45:49am

YEE HAH!!!!!

Great news to wake up to on a snowy Sunday morning in the Big Apple! A Christmas/Chanukah gift for all of us.

I predict that Saddam will be tried right there in Iraq - I don't think that GWB is going to deprive the Iraqis of their right to subject him to their own system of justice. If I were an Iraqi, I'd be pissed as hell if he were taken out of Iraq and shipped off to the International Court of Justice, where he'd be coddled, given a platform and then supported for the rest of his misbegotten life. Not to mention that as long as he's alive, he'll be a magnet for the Baathists and other attackers. Israel tried Eichmann in Israel, and the Iraqis should try Saddam in Iraq.

Partizaner #109 - Are you a Princeton alum? Just wondered, since you posted Rumsfeld's class. I'm class of '76.

223 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:46:10am

observer (#214)

They are hopeless.

224 Doug  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:47:05am

#209 Dar - Actually, the first flight by the Wright brothers was December 17, 1903.

225 Geepers  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:47:39am

Jonathan says:

I have nothing more to say...

We can only hope.

226 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:47:50am

[Link: www.thecreatures.com...]

under "Saddam caught" - read what "SCO" has to say..

227 j-damn  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:47:55am

Of course, this happens on the morning after I choose to return to drinking bourbon and sleep in.

Is is true that the first statement Saddam made to our troops was an endorsement of Howard Dean for POTUS?

228 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:47:59am

J.D.

Well, no doubt he'll want to know what Chiraq thinks we should do.

I think our "ally" Chirac has more pressing problems, as in explaining his unholy alliance with Saddam over the past 25 years. (The nuclear reactor that the Israeli's took out at Osirak in '81, that deal was done by Chiraq himself)...

229 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:49:35am

Geepers (#225)

LOL! My sentiments exactly.

230 Eric Sivula  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:50:35am

cba, I was answering this question from Frank:


Now can someone explain the "Golem" reference in "Ramble On", by Led Zeppelin?
231 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:50:45am

Arabs skeptical of Hussein capture

It's official, my people have moved part and parcel into their own fantasy world...

232 Amy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:51:59am

Jaffar #231 -

I thought they'd done that a long time ago...

233 D. Edgren (the Merciless Infidel)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:53:23am

Among reaction from around the world...

...The French Prime Minister was dining when he received the news of Saddam's capture. Inside sources state that the tinkling sound that immediately followed did not come from the glassware: it was rather the sound of Chirac wetting his pants...

Inquiring minds want to know.


D. Edgren

234 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:54:36am

#79 zulubaby- I had a premonition that something earth-shaking was about to happen and told more than a few people about the "feeling". Maybe it was triggered by the last full moon, the "feeling" seemed to start about that time. Don't have a date for that, not long ago. I also noticed that my cat was behaving absurdly (getting stepped on, oww, sorry Whiskers!) and the womenfolk have been restive as well. I speculated an asteroid impact and I read later that an asteroid was discovered by its passing between the earth and the moon. This news is icing on the cake for moi ;-)

235 James  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:55:12am
Genocide? He crushed rebellions forcefully in what amounted to burgeonning civil wars. Clanic societies are not exactly renowned for their peaceful ways.

Good grief.

"Clanic societies"?

236 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:55:16am

#206 Eric S.:

Ah, yes. I understand Led Zeppelin was inspired by Tolkien to a large extent.

237 William  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:56:24am

Some Democratic Underground comments on Saddam's capture:


Author: PSU84 (128 posts)
Subject: Saddam caught? Like I should care...
Post date: Sun Dec-14-03 11:17 AM
Comment excerpts:

It won't end the insurrection in Iraq, because that isn't about Saddam - it's about the American occupation. ... It won't prevent terrorist acts by groups like Al Queda, because as "W" has finally admitted, Saddam was not linked to the events of 9/11. ... In short, after all the media hoopla and the self-congratulation at the White House, it won't mean much of anything.

[Link: www.democraticunderground.com...]


 
This is a nice one:

Author: ogminlo (32 posts)
Subject: Yeah, yeah...
Post date: Sun Dec-14-03 11:15 AM
Comment:

After a quick blip, reality will set back in as the Bush domestic failure gorws.


 
And the followup to "ogminlo" above:

Author: bspence (157 posts)
Subject: What domestic failure?
Post date: Sun Dec-14-03 11:45 AM
Comment:

According to so many reports, there's going to be a recovery.  We're fucked in 2004.  :-(

[Link: www.democraticunderground.com...]

Very interesting:

1) An enemy of America -- and the people of Iraq -- is captured, and it "doesn't mean anyhting."

2) America is recovering economically after 250 acres of its financial district were wiped out on Sept 11 (more office space than the entire city of Cincinatti), and all they can say is "We're fucked in 2004.  :-(".
 

238 blogaddict  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:56:50am

[virtual gun fired into the air]

What a day! If it were scripted, it couldn't be better--the way he looked ("Bad Santa" crossed with Karl Marx), the hiding place, the pistol that wasn't used, the checking his head for lice.

A limerick really doesn't seem momentous enough for this momentous occasion, but here's one, anyway:

Let's chorus in wild ululation,
And join in the worldwide elation.
"Caught like a rat,"
In the hole where he sat.
No words can express my elation!!

239 Donna V.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:57:52am

George Will said a few minutes ago that Duyba has hit the trifecta this week: the Dow soars, Gore endorses Dean, and Saddam gets hauled out of his spider hole.

240 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:58:00am

Amy #232 -

Perhaps this can be something of a turning point for people in the Arab world. What they will see is a trial of Saddam, run by Iraqis and for Iraqis.

241 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:58:18am

IndyMedia is still down for server upgrade.

Believe it or not.

242 ChgoAtty2001  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:58:42am

Please join me all, Jewish, Christian, whatever you may believe in.

Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha-olam,
SHEHCHIANU V'KIEMANU V'HEGIANU LAZMAN HAZEH.

[Translation: Blessed art Thou L-rd G-d King of the Universe who has sustained us and kept us and has brought us to this day.]

Let this be a lesson to those who oppose us (and that includes you France, Germany, and Russia), that the good and just will always triumph over evil.

243 blogaddict  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:59:10am

Oops--

Correction--second line of the limerick in #238 should end with the word "celebration."

Just too excited, I guess :-)

244 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:59:38am

#230:
Sorry, Eric--guess I'm over-excited and skipped that bit. Or maybe I was just being too Thoughtful.

Gotta stop that.

I'll go back to ululating now.

245 reaganite  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:59:43am

Yesterday, the 13th, I was in Home Depot buying some wood. The woman at the counter asked how long it was, 13 feet. She joked about "bad luck" I told her that 13 had always been my lucky number. Saddam getting popped on the 13th! WHOOO HOOO!

246 D. Edgren (the Merciless Infidel)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:00:36am

#233

Apparently Chirac was dining with his Prime Minister. At least they spelled his name right...

(anticipating sharpshooting at referenced post)


D. Edgren

247 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:00:56am

The operation to get Saddam was named Red Dawn after the 1980's movie of the same name. Glad to see our boys are keeping their sense of humor...

248 Ger  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:01:15am

#242-

AMEN!

249 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:01:22am

torchy (#234)

I usually get premonitions but this one passed me by. I'm losing my touch! ;-)

250 Paladin  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:03:20am

Hey, Justdanny!

You are no longer justdanny--you are thedanny!

251 Amy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:06:56am

Jaffar #240 -

I certainly hope so. That's why I'm in favor of Saddam's staying right there in Iraq, where he can be tried by a system of justice he can't object to by judges whose ethnicity he can't object to and then hanged like the dog he is for all to see as an object lesson to tyrants everywhere.

252 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:08:33am

#225 Geepers,#229 zulubaby

Since Jonathan is saying he "nothing more to say" is he really saying he has "nothing more to say" or is he just saying he has "nothing more to say? Did he just have that one last thing to say or does he reserve the right to say more by saying he has "nothing more to say" thus mooting the oath? Know what I'm saying? :-)

253 Ratbert  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:08:51am

Saddam's mugshot

254 Eric Sivula  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:09:18am

#244 cba no harm, no foul. And today is a good day to be over-excited. ;)

255 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:10:20am

#242:
Amen.

And I'm glad I'm not the only one who's so excited this morning they're missing some other people's posts.

:-)

256 Jaffar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:11:08am

Amy 251 -

Alhamdu Lillah to that,

Open question to all, does this take all/some/none of the wind out of the sails of the Iraqi insurgency?
I imagine that the $750,000 they found with SH is just the tip of the iceberg of the loose cash that has been funding the guerilla campaign...

257 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:11:40am

#252 torchy:

Whoa, too deep for me. Gonna have to Think about that for a bit.

258 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:12:24am

#241 Frank IBC,

IndyMedia is still down for server upgrade.

No, they're up. And, they have a pic of the Iraqi child with no arms up on the front page now. They make me sick.

259 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:13:03am

torchy (#252)

It's so hard to care :-)

260 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:15:28am

#256 Jaffar:
My guess is there'll be a spurt of "activity" cos they're really POed, then it'll die down through lack of support (monetary and otherwise).

I also expect that the next anti-terror demo will be huge.

261 P. Ingemi  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:15:29am

This shows a important rule:

If you piss off your wife in the end you will pay!

262 Daniel  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:23:28am

Task force 20 - to the house!

263 Joel  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:25:24am

Saddam looks like Captgain Lou Albano the wrestler/manager. Let Arafat be the next one humiliated.

264 chinditz  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:25:48am

CNN: big explosion in Baghdad

265 Joshua Scholar  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:26:42am

#138 Ayatollah Ghilmeini- Believe in the Victory

Yes, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that the Arabs watch/read about the trial and gain some sense of rational perspective.

266 el brujo  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:27:07am

so i get up and i though we captured fidel castro....but sadam will do just OK.

congrats to the soldiers...trust the fourth, George!!!

267 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:30:13am

#264 chinditz

Thank heavens! Now CNN can finally move back to incessant harping on what's really important - quagmire!

268 abu cannoncocker  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:30:51am

GWB is awesome

"the war on terror will continue, capture by capture, cell by cell, victory by victory".

explosions heard in Bahgdad.

269 Geepers  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:33:10am

zulubaby (#259),

It's so hard to care

LOL! My sentiments exactly. ;-)

270 Baldy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:33:50am

It's so nice to see Arab men dancing and rejoicing over good news for once.

271 zulubaby  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:35:27am

Geepers (#269)

LOL! ;-)

Saddam looks a mess!

272 Ed Smith, Lizard of Doom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:35:39am

Ain't it amazing that, once you take away the palaces and the military and the secret police, these brutal dictators end up looking like Nick Nolte in Down and Out in Beverly Hills?

Man, I'd have had at least some marginal respect for him if he'd gone down shooting like his sons. Instead, he goes along quietly to his appointment with the veterinarian.

The most fun will be watching as the Muslim world realizes what a big puss their hero is. But it's what I've said all along: guys like that fear ridicule more than bullets. Bring on the Python French soldiers - let the taunting begin!

273 EnglishmajorCrusader  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:40:06am

#243 blogaddict,
like your limerick-- suggest the 2nd line read "And join in the great celebration". Scans better.

274 John Gibbon (Abu Barney and Friends)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:40:58am

Expect:

- Some of the Dem Candidates to start withdrawing...

- The Stock market to go thru the roof

- The Left media hounding the administration about getting Osama (always a pessimist and never Satisfied)

I gotta give Kudo's to the Ivy Division, The 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized)!

wish I could hang around but my God is calling me to worship!

275 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:41:41am

#237 Willim - thanks.

That really captures the essence of what the LLL are all about.

When ouruntry prospers - the Dems lose.

276 Free Speech Is Only For Uber-Libs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:42:34am

Wow - I really cannot type today (like most days)
that is to say:
William and Country... (above post)

277 PDM  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:42:37am

I love it!
story.news.yahoo.com...] target="_blank">

An Iraqi journalist shouts out and cries at a news conference following the arrest of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in Baghdad December 14, 2003. Cheering Iraqis in the audience shouted 'Death to Saddam!'


But the LLLs will still tell you we should not have gone to Iraq.

278 Evariste's Zaide  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:44:43am

#250 Paladin
"You are no longer justdanny--you are thedanny!"

Danny Ha Gadol!

279 chinditz  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:50:24am

The explosion i posted on earlier was caused by a stray-bullet hitting a truck loaded with cans of gasoline.

280 veebee  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:50:30am

Just in time for holydays!

281 Shipman  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:51:50am

#209 Dar - Actually, the first flight by the Wright brothers was December 17, 1903.

Never, ever, underestimate what two American bicycle mechanics can do.

(methane powered pulse jet drownds out the crickets)

282 Thom  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:55:06am

#279 chinditz

As happy as they are, they really need to stop with the shooting into the air stuff.

283 Joshua  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:57:30am

Mideast terror is two-pronged, and interestingly you see both types played out in Israel, and in the world. The first is Islamist, or political Islam, naziism with Islam in place of Aryanism. The other is Pan-Arabist, really Pan-Mideast, which was originally Naziism with arabs (or more exacly middle easter peoples) in place of Germans, but has adopted an Islamist 'flavor' in recent years. Islamism began to explode after the Iranian revolution, Pan Arabism really began to explode after Saddam took power in Iraq. Both kinds of extremists have caused problems for Muslims, Israel and the west, and both kinds work together to achieve common goals, ie, hurting America and trying to destroy Israel. Both movements must be defeated, and today we have made a major step forward in not only the War on Terror but also given what may be a final major blow against pan-arabism. Saddam is the living symbol of Pan-Arabism, of Baathism in particular, and now he is in our hands, he will face our good justice, and I couldn't be happier. In the words of all GOOD muslms, God is Great, and PS he is on our side.

Thank you LGF, you are my refuge when the news is bad, and my place to celebrate when it is good.

284 nhop  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:01:08am

@92 EuBoy

Check out [Link: www.sharereactor.com...]

They have a pretty good politics & religion forum. (but you must join to post) I dont know if you could consider it an extremist forum, or LLL. Its generally pretty balanced, with a mix of viewpoints from diff sides.

For more "extremist" viewpoints, check out democratic underground or [Link: www.iraqwar.ru....]

285 torchy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:03:13am

#186 Darul ul Harbarian-

Scooped me by 25 minutes at least. Like a bolt out of the blue it hit that Saddam of all tyrants would have an exit strategy, a contingency in case of capture and he has, let's say, a penchant for revenge. My blood ran cold. A devastating mass casaulty attack following jubilation over the capture of a unholy tyrant is a plan for terrorism worthy of the Devil himself. News of his incarceration by his enemy would be the signal to execute the plan.Hmm,......nothing yet. Maybe the anniversary of the putsch that brought him into power. Here's hoping that his legacy is mingling with the other ashes in the dustbin of history

286 Melissa  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:03:20am

brianstien (#140):

Done and done.....and I'll raise you a donation to Bush/Cheney '04.

287 C.T.  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:04:34am

#66 Jonathan

...Well, we dealt with Iraq first because we could (Unlike what Carter allowed North Korea to become.) and, well, you had to START somewhere. While I am sorry that Rumsfeld feels he needs to oppose military expansion the Congress is willing to fund, and REALLY irritated at the way "transformation" is doing unpleasant things to the military, the US (Unfortunately) is not capable of going after all the people who deserve it AT THE SAME TIME.

Some journeys you can only take one step at a time.

As for Saddam...As a first step (And I believe it IS Saddam if the Iraqi Governing Council is correct in saying the guy was trying to justify his crimes to them.), we need to find the grown-up British boy who was filmed in 1990 being patted on the top of the head by the Louse from Tikrit, so he can hop on a plane to Baghdad and slug the bastard one for child abuse.

C.T.

288 Amy  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:04:38am

Jaffar #256 -

I'm really not sure about the fighting as a whole; it depends on whether Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria continue to meddle by facilitating the infiltration of foreign jihadis and funding them. I think it will put an end to the native Baathist resistance, though - ordinary Iraqis will turn them in or take care of them vigilante-style, now that they're no longer afraid of reprisals if Saddam were to return to power.

Saddam had billions at his disposal. I'm sure that the money found on him was just "spare change" for bribes and to pay his hosts and body guards. Nobody knows where the rest of the money is, since Saddam no doubt socked it away overseas in anonymous, numbered accounts. I doubt that anyone in our custody (besides Saddam) knows all the details concerning those accounts. He trusted no one. It would be interesting to know if they found a laptop computer where they captured him and what's on it.

289 Marc Poitras  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:20:48am

sic semper tyrannis

290 rockman  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:35:35am

With appologies to Shelley:

..".My name is Saddam Hussein al Tikriti
look upon my works ye mighty, and despair."

It's great to see him humiliated,disgraced, broken. Move over Kobe, move over Scott Peterson, some really important legal coverage is about to begin. You know Greta Van Susteren has to be loving this.

291 steve miller  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:56:17am

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

SADDAM NEGOTIATING FOR HIS RELEASE, promises $25 million, will reveal secret location of that Cubs fan...

DEVELOPING...

MORE...

292 steve miller  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:58:00am

"All your spider-holes are belong to us..."

293 Joseph  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 8:58:50am

Jonathon (66):

You scumbag. You expect us to take that site yo link to seriosly when they seem to be attacking everyone trying to fight the WoT?????????????

Example: Israel Criticized For Secret Detention Center

294 ESTEBAN  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:05:44am

Can't wait for tomorrow's papers:

NYT "Exclusive Interview with Saddam by Jason Blair"

WAPO "Capture May Work Against President"

National Inquirer "Saddam Seen in Paraguay"

295 HULUGU  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:31:50am

#66 jonathing--the people they're are boiling in uzbek [i doubt this is true] are the wahabbis who are trying to take over the country and coincidentally would kill you in a new york minute--you dhimmi infidel--i hope they get to jannah nicely done like a three minute egg--what a great fawkin' day --al dickhead captured in a rathole--oh the humiliation--i got five words for baby assad--OPEN WIDE and SAY AHH!! --who'd a thought that current events could make you so ecstatic :-]

296 Monty Haul  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:32:22am

What's your name?

Saddam Hussein

Well Saddam, before you even start, I am going to give you a free orange jumpsuit (audience oooohhs and ahhhs) Tell us what prizes we have for our contestant, Jay:

Well Monty, Saddam, you have won a free Show Trial- you and your compatriots will be be given an all expenses paid incaraceration in a concrete cell (audience gasps!) You will have lawyers and free 24 hour surviellence. And that's not all, you will be presented in a brand new 2004 Top of the Lin Defendant's Box. This bullet proff beauty can stop all small rounds but wait there is more- you are going to have your daily personal encounters with all of the people whose lives you so touched in the past. Everyone from the family of the man you fed into a plastic shredder to birth deformed children from Halabja. Kuwati families can share their special feelings with you and you will even get to hear testimony from the Shi'ite marsh people you murdered!

But our contestant today can also win the grand prize- a world wide televised execution.

So which door is it?

I'll take door number three Monty.

He got it! Saddam Hussein has won the grand prize!

297 therien  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:45:23am

ululululululululu!

While the Dimocrats and Terrorists seethe in unison--this is so great!
//"That wasn't supposed to happen!"

298 Abu Radley (abu-YAAAAHOOO!)  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:47:32am

Who needs NPR? We can just read Jonathan (#66, #213). He wasn't trying to make a point, he was trying to make us feel guilty for celebrating the downfall of one of the world's tyrants. For Thoughtful People like Jonathan, if the U.S. doesn't use 100% purity of intentions and actions in everything it does, everywhere, at all times, we therefore have no right to do the right thing (get Saddam) in one place (Iraq) at one time. Moral equivalence = paralysis of action.

disputing my content is far more effective than ad-hominum attacks, but do as you please.(#66)

Clever little passive-aggressive way to silence criticism, that. (yeah, I'm being adhominem here, but then again I don't share your finely-tuned conscience -- I can see the silver linings around the clouds. And #295 Hulugu put it much more eloquently than I could.)

299 Model4  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:49:17am

(Delighted ululating)

What a great day! I'm so very proud of my country, our armed forces and our president. Hearty congratulations and appreciation to our friends and allies who are fighting with us on the side of freedom. Best wishes to those Iraqis who want to transform their society to value peace, prosperity and human rights.

That the sorry little bastard surrendered was a great sign. Since it's proven that saving his own skin will motivate him, promise him his life will be spared if he absolutely cooperates on all aspects of our intel gathering. One lie, one detail omitted that we've already figured out, and it's the death penalty for him.

Then execute him after the trial.

Shitty day for Assad, Chirac and corrupt freedom haters everywhere (including stateside).

300 Someone from Holland  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:55:12am

Thank you America.

301 lawhawk  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:57:28am

Saddam and Ted K. (the unabomer) perfect together.

Both will be spending all eternity wondering what the heck they were thinking living in a rat hole in the middle of nowhere, thinking that they'd escape the hands of justice that sought them?

As it should be.

Oh, and as I was watching the morning news shows, I definitely could hear sadness in the words of Dan Rather. He sounded as though he lost his favorite dog. For he, as well as most democrats now realize, Bush will be reelected as yet another promise on action has come through.

Lieberman's numbers will jump this week as Dean (and Gore) have to figure out a new strategy since Iraq won't work for them. Unless they think that Ba'athists will elect them President of the US that is.

302 Daytonian  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:01:10am

Hooray for us!!!

God bless our armed forces and the President.

Oops! Can I say "God" here?

303 Tumulus  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:06:42am

149:1 Praise Yahweh!
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance!
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
149:4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.
149:5 Let the saints rejoice in honor.
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
149:6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths,
and a two-edged sword in their hand;
149:7 To execute vengeance on the nations,
and punishments on the peoples;
149:8 To bind their kings with chains,
and their nobles with fetters of iron;
149:9 to execute on them the written judgment.
All his saints have this honor.
Praise Yah!
Psalm 149

304 cba  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:07:27am

#302 Daytonian:

Oops! Can I say "God" here?

Sure you can! In fact, this thread already has a few prayers (search on 'Amen') and the Iraqi bloggers thread begins with a Muslim prayer of thanksgiving.

305 Babs  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:40:36am

Congratulations and thankyou from New Zealand.
Well done America- the world owes you BIG TIME

306 Stormi Abu Flashdance Legwarmers  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:55:34am

This is so awesome. I was at a holiday party last night with some fine Air Force folks, many of us had rooms in the hotel where the party was held, and we had a nice game night that lasted until four in the morning. So, today I came home to my home, turned the ringer on my phone off, and went back to bed. As soon as my friends began hearing the news they tried to call me, and call me, and call me, and I never answered. So my wonderful friends came to my house and rang my doorbell until I got up, so they could share the good news.

Tyrant is a prisoner.

To me, that sounds like it could be turned into the chorus of a song, a la J. Geils Band's 'Centerfold':

na na na na nana tyrant is a prisoner...

Somebody funnier than I am will have to supply the rest of the lyrics.

307 Natasha  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:10:45am

I see I am pretty late to the party, but let me add just one more celebratory voice to many others. What a great piece of news to wake up to! Champagne and caviar are the order of the day-- and maybe even a nice chilled shot of vodka!
ULULULULULULULULULU!!!!!!

308 Natasha  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:12:10am

Hmm... I wonder if Berzerkeley or Harvard will try offering Saddam a teaching position in Polit Sci...

309 evariste  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:49:59am

zulubaby, I only knew because of justdanny's hint and a good guess!

310 evariste  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:50:58am

Oh, and ULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULULU!
ULULU!

311 Evan  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 12:27:05pm

WELL DONE!

312 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 12:54:07pm

Orange jump suit?

Naah. Black negligee, paraded through the streets of Baghdad.

313 Korora  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 1:32:20pm

ULULULULULULULU!

*goes to DU to check his Morlock traps*

Got quite a few; enough for the BIG BASH!

314 Kase  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 1:58:23pm

Ugh. Hiding in a hole. What a mug shot.

He needs a ba'ath.

315 jeff  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 1:59:08pm

In Dearborn, the Arabs were shouting USA! and waving the American Flag. Just FYI...

316 Korora  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 3:20:37pm

Tell me again about the quagmire.

317 Korora  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 3:22:57pm

Oh, and BTW, where is the freezer. The traps caught a surplus of Morlocks.

318 Tamron  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 3:48:05pm

What do you say to turning Saddam loose in the desert with a 15-minute head start, and then letting 1,000 Iraqi women chase him down?

319 Frank IBC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 4:33:22pm

Execute him on Christmas.

Just like the Ceaucescus.

320 Mordred  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 5:47:35pm

Nearly 320 Posts, and no one has posted the most obvious reference:

DING DONG
THE WICKED WITCH
THE WICKED WITCH
DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD
WHICH OLD WITCH?
THE WICKED WITCH
DING DONG THE WIUCKED WITCH IS DEAD!

God bless the USA, UK, Australia, Poland, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Japan!!!!

321 MikeC  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 6:25:57pm

I know I'm late to the party here. I've been in transit for the last day but all I can say is FUCK YEAH

322 Joseph  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 7:56:38pm

One Pali with balls:

Michael Hanna, 28, an engineer, was one of the few who said they were happy that Saddam was captured. "Saddam is responsible for the killing of thousands of his own people and he deserves to die," he said. "I have no sympathy for him or other Arab dictators. I hope he will be put on trial and executed. This should be a lesson for other corrupt and tyrannical Arab leaders. I hope the Iraqi people will now be able to live in peace, because they have suffered for a long time under Saddam and his sons."

(jpost.com)jpost (reg req)

323 Jheka  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 10:36:47pm

This was my very first hat tip ... way back in April ... I thought that it would be appropriate to re-post at this time:

[Link: www.toccionline.com...]

Enjoy.

324 Jan  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:15:44pm

Ureopeans can barely hide their disappointment. Fun to watch them squirm. :)

325 MakeMyDay  Sun, Dec 14, 2003 11:34:54pm

Ah, I am late, I am late! But what a great development! Truly a befitting fate for a tyrant. He did not get to die in his bunker, but he will have to answer for all his crimes. May the rest of the dictators still at large tremble. My ultimate gloating is reserved for those who were betting on Saddam to win. Weep bitter tears, morons!

326 John Gibbon  Mon, Dec 15, 2003 6:30:56am

#300 Someone From Holland,

...And thank you also for committing your troops to this also. Many forget that the Netherlands are in Iraq also part of the coalition of the willing.

The Netherlands choose wisely not the join the coalition of the chocolate eaters!

327 Baron Bizarre  Mon, Dec 15, 2003 11:17:32am

Actually, when I saw Saddam in that hole, I heard the ghost of Chris Farley say:

"You're gonna be doin' a lotta dictatin', livin' in a HOLE down by the RIVER!"


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