BS: They got saddam

Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:49 AM

According to an article in the "London Telegraph", Saddam Hussein was captured by an Iraqi tribe, who sold him to the Kurds, who drugged him and handed him over to the Americans.
The Kurds are to be congratulated for not mutilating the S.O.B., if the story's true. And George W. is about to have a little more egg on his presidential face.

Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:53 AM

Thanks for the link, Nameless One!


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Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 02:48 AM

What was the date and title of the story?

Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 01:39 PM

When he came out he asked if he had beat David Blaine

Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 02:18 PM

A few days back, conservatives and others excoriated Howard Dean when he commented that the capture of Saddam Hussein didn't make us any safer. Now we find ourselves in an orange alert for possible terrorist attack.

Could it be (surely not!!) that Howard Dean was right?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: They got saddam
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 05:36 PM

Nice cover photo from "The Phoenix" (more or less Ireland's "Private Eye") showing Saddam asking the guy searching his mouth with torch and tongue depressor: "Are you still looking for weapons of mass destruction?"

Once again, people who would otherwise give vent to their contempt for the bad guy find themselves seeing things from his point of view because of the blatant double standards applied by the US. The Geneva conventions have been ignored by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo ("sovereign Cuban territory"! - dixit Rumbo), rediscovered briefly when it suits them to object to the display of a couple of less-than-square-jawed Captains Courageous on Al Jazeera, then forgotten again when a photo-op with Saddo is too good to be missed.