So we (the U.S.) caught Saddam

well it's good that he's caught, although this will help bush get reelected...still it's good that he's caught. in your FACE canada.

i didnt even think about it helping bush..dammmit! i don't want him for another term

very interesting and i wonder what he'll say after they shave that beard of of him!

nothing we'll understand! Actually, I'm sure he can speak english...

he'll say: umm blak hearke ungg iffafel!!!!111

which translates literally into: my ass is on your foot

translation: you took my $750,000, pistol, 2 ak47s and my taxi. You stole my livlihood, you motherfuckers.

phyto i think that's what the muppet chef talks in...

and saddam doesn't remind you of the muppet chef???

bush is in cause people are saps, his daddy will be proud and maybe just maybe give him the accceptance he's always craved. big show wise it means nothing, because bush was in anyway, good p.r. has created rampant nationalism. people are so busy jerking off the amercan flag, they can't see all the damage going on. this is a dumb country, getting dumber.

Who would've thought we would find Saddam before Bin Laden or WMD'S?

"although this will help bush get reelected"

I thought the same thing when 9-11 happened. I thought people were going to treat Dubya just like FDR after Pearl Harbor.

I think the terrorist state might ramp up more activity, to try a whittle the coverage of the 'Capture' away. Because this has been like the only good news in Iraq since Uday and Qusay were killed. All the news has been 'dead soldiers' up till now. And this is a way better morale boost for the troops then George Bush could ever provide.

i find it rather strange that he was so complacent and cooperative with the doctors and his captors. he was such a germaphobe when he was still in power, to the extent that he would make reporters bathe before they could interview him. then they show the footage of him just sitting there in his own filth, indifferent, letting a doctor check him out and answering questions like he was just carrying on a normal everyday conversation. my wife thinks he's probably been in american custody for a while, he was too non-saddam-like in the footage they've been showing.

and i just think he looks like someone's dirty uncle. but hey, as long as he's in custody, he can't do much else.

good points trypd, maybe now that he's been captured( or has een awhile) he just doesn't care anymore

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by phytoplankton [/i]
[B]and saddam doesn't remind you of the muppet chef??? [/B][/QUOTE]
good point

trypd: maybe he has been but i find it highly doubtful. This is a big thing, keeping it secret seems fairly illoigcal (politically speaking) and it is quite the morale boost for the troops as Gonzo said.

i bet dubya is flying to iraq right now just so he can make him smell his finger.

if we execute saddam i think we'll have a lot more problems containing dissent in iraq and in the middle east in general.

usually, former leaders of state, even dictators, kill themselves or are killed in revolutions. they are not, however, handed over to so called international tribunals of law and sumamrily executed.

you know bush is lookin to smell some fried saddam though.

nopers

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by phytoplankton [/i]
[B]What do you think this will mean? [/B][/QUOTE]

he's finally going to get his own reality tv program. like another version of 'Meet My Folks' where good wholesome American boys, trying to root his daughters- and he has them slayed.

like Hilter got his own talk show on that episode of Family Guy, and he made Christian Slater show the world his butt.

i like the reality show idea , even though i despise reality tv

or maybe he will be let loose on Broadway.

I would like to point out the fact that most terrorists didn't much care for Saddam anyway...his nation adhered least to Islam (other than Israel, of course) in the region.
Sure he funded the West Bank/Gaza suicide guys, but in the grand scheme of Jihad, the guy was going down one way or another.
This is NOT going to cause an enormous terrorism backlash.
And I don't honestly think the election is won for Bush. The nice thing about all this, is that it makes anti-war Dems. like Kerry, Dean, and that general guy who's name I can't think of look bad. and helps out pro-war dems. like Leiberman, who honestly, is the only person in the field right now that would be any less of a fuckwit than Bush has been.
but that's just me talking.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by glamhoth [/i]
[B]good point

trypd: maybe he has been but i find it highly doubtful. This is a big thing, keeping it secret seems fairly illoigcal (politically speaking) and it is quite the morale boost for the troops as Gonzo said. [/B][/QUOTE]
actually it would make pretty good sense if they did have him and kept it quite. really think about how many people would have continued to support the wars in iraq and the "war on terrorism" if we had caught saddam months ago and went public with it? it would make pretty good sense to just keep it quite and use the excuse that you're looking for mr. dangerous saddam. now that american interest is wanning, release news that we finally got him in a chance raid in a "hole in the ground", and bam, sudden national interest in it again.
i'm not saying i buy into it completely, but something about this just isn't on the level.

Overall - I don't really care. Something shifty is going on to hype things up and play them the way 'they' want them to be played. But that's nothing new, so yeah... Blah.

jew or not, at least he isn't bush.

you know it's true.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by trypdwyre [/i]
[B]actually it would make pretty good sense if they did have him and kept it quite. really think about how many people would have continued to support the wars in iraq and the "war on terrorism" if we had caught saddam months ago and went public with it? it would make pretty good sense to just keep it quite and use the excuse that you're looking for mr. dangerous saddam. now that american interest is wanning, release news that we finally got him in a chance raid in a "hole in the ground", and bam, sudden national interest in it again.
i'm not saying i buy into it completely, but something about this just isn't on the level. [/B][/QUOTE]
that could be true, it has definite logical advantages, but saddam not being found was also a big point for anti-war people, it seems like this would have been a good way to put a lot of doubts to rest, or at least distract people from other problems in Iraq, it still seems to me unlikely that such big news would have been kept secret.

[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1107463,00.html[/url]
i'm glad non of us have a say in this

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PoetryWrittenInGasoline [/i]
[B][url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1107463,00.html[/url]
i'm glad non of us have a say in this [/B][/QUOTE]
could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. they'll either go to one extreme (flat out saying "just kill the bastard") or the other (taking him back like he's an abusive boyfriend).

i wonder what they'll decide.
spared america the humiliation of letting our president decide what to do with him.

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memories... *sigh*... i'm sure rummy misses him

i think we ought to cut his nose off, tar and feather him and run him into the desert like moses

[url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=474598]Is the search for weapons over?[/url]

gg american public.

i think catching saddam was the least we could do. now maybe if we can catch the guy running around in the caves of afghanistan who *actually* attacked us, we can actually feel good about ourselves.

of course, that wouldn't do--because then we couldn't keep ramping the terror alert up to yellow and urging people to go shopping.

would be interesting to hear him talk (in court) about the way he & his regime were supported by america in the eighties en nineties. all those weapons (of mass destruction)...

what does this [saddam getting caught] mean? I'll tell you what this means.
It means that ABC will have the highest ratings in years when they broadcast saddams execution.
I wouldnt doubt thats what america would do. Broadcast another man being executed. America is turning into filthy savages obsessed with nationalism so why wouldnt they go for making a few more bucks being even more inhumane than they already are?

we have a military budget of nearly $400 BB a year. the least we could do is subdue a nation that spends $2BB on defense and capture its leader.