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2003-07-22 Iraq

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Posted by Dar 2003-07-22 3:39:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fox is reporting that the Ace Of Diamonds, Abid al-Tikriti, IDed the bodies. He was the Presidental Sectratary to Sammy. The briefer at CENTCOM sez they used multiple means to confirm, he said bodies were in good enough condition. Photos tomorrow.

Posted by Steve 2003-7-22 3:46:29 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Baghdad no longer fears his name
Uday! Uday!
Now he's lying dead and maimed
So much for Uday!
Tried to run all night! Tried to run all day!
The Screaming Eagles blew him away!
CENTCOM says we iced Uday.

(Apologies to Stephen Foster and James Lileks.)

Posted by Mike 2003-7-22 3:49:06 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:49:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 ULULULULULULULULULU!!!

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-22 3:50:06 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:50:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 And there seems to be confirmation that the $30 million ($15M each)is going to be paid... They say the tip of the location came from a "walk in".

Very sweet.

Posted by PD 2003-7-22 3:50:59 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:50:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 money well spent

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 3:55:36 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:55:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Stuck in the Quagmireâ¢ ya think? The more the left talks, the more it sounds like squawks. Job well done guys! Now on to Sammy ~~and Co.~~.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-22 4:00:23 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:00:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 From the NTTimes:
The two men were seen exiting a car and racing into a house in the eastern part of the city around 9 a.m. and were filmed, the Kurdish officials said. The film was quickly handed over to the American military, who identified the men and surrounded the house with troops from the 101st Airborne.

I wonder if Uday, judging from how unstable and paranoid he is, was the one who first opened fire on the troops?

Anyway, Saddam's got to be quivering in his boots right now. With $25 million at stake and this raid's success, he won't trust anyone anymore.

Posted by Dar 2003-7-22 4:02:43 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:02:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 another one gone
and another one gone
another bites the dust!

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 4:04:51 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:04:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 good news even though i opposed the war...lets hope this news will turn on the electricity and the water

Posted by stevey robinson 2003-7-22 4:12:57 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:12:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 And Wall St likes it...

So, how many points would the Dow go up if:
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Saddam is killed / captured

Arafish shoots himself in sudden epiphany in which he realizes he's a zit on the World's ass; just before he pulls the trigger, he orders Al Aqsa to kill off Hamas and Hezbollah, then commit suicide

The entire collection of Black Hats collectively do the epiphany thing and have a Jonestown Kool-Aid Party

Kofi epiphs and resigns saying he needs to hold a real job in the real world in order to understand something of reality before posturing and telling others what they should be doing

Chirac FINALLY has an epiphany and realizes he's a crook and pathetic shit - and has been hiding behind nationalistic anti-American bullshit - tries to shoot himself, but misses, so he turns himself in to his mistress' husband who is a Bunko Squad Detective, on Chirac's trail for years

The BBC epiphs and renames itself the BBS - and, realizing that they aren't really journalists, they repent their asinine ways and everyone resigns and returns their salaries to the British people

The Demo candidates epiph during a group hug / holier-than-thou arm wrestling contest and all pledge support for ~~Bush~~ Colin Powell, if he'll resign from the Bush Admin, name Condi Rice as his Veep, and turn Dem

Posted by PD 2003-7-22 4:16:35 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:16:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 electric is on at above prewar levels in the Shiite south. Problems in Baghdad are largely due to security - Baathists shooting at power lines, and killing people who work for the electrical system. To the extent this discourages the Baathists, and heartens the good people of Iraq, this should help to deal with the electricity problem.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 4:17:56 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:17:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Doc - tag 'em and bag 'em! Outstanding. Gonna fire up the BBQ and knock back some cold ones on this one. Gep was dead wrong....this is EXACTLY how foreign policy is implemented.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-7-22 4:23:07 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:23:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 From 2.June Time (hat tip: The Corner):
A chef at Baghdad's exclusive Hunting Club recalls a wedding party that Uday crashed in the late 1990s. After Uday left the hall, the bride, a beautiful woman from a prominent family, went missing. "The bodyguards closed all the doors, didn't let anybody out," the chef remembers. "Women were yelling and crying, 'What happened to her?'" The groom knew. "He took a pistol and shot himself," says the chef, placing his forefinger under his chin.

Last October another bride, 18, was dragged, resisting, into a guardhouse on one of Uday's properties, according to a maid who worked there. The maid says she saw a guard rip off the woman's white wedding dress and lock her, crying, in a bathroom. After Uday arrived, the maid heard screaming. Later she was called to clean up. The body of the woman was carried out in a military blanket, she said. There were acid burns on her left shoulder and the left side of her face. The maid found bloodstains on Uday's mattress and clumps of black hair and peeled flesh in the bedroom. A guard told her, "Don't say anything about what you see, or you and your family will be finished."

Hope it's hot enough for you, Uday.

Posted by Dar 2003-7-22 4:29:37 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:29:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Happy happy!...joy joy!

Posted by Sgt.DT 2003-7-22 4:34:51 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:34:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Happy happy!...joy joy!

Posted by Sgt.DT 2003-7-22 4:35:24 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:35:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Woo-hoo! Way to go, Screaming Eagles!

May the loathsome duo be joined soon by their Pater in the lowest realm of HELL, where they'll be dressed in pigskins and forced to eat pork all day. Buh-bye, losers.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-7-22 4:35:43 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:35:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Hell isn't hot enough for Uday!

Posted by Tom 2003-7-22 4:36:23 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:36:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 whilst you celebrate the deaths of the Aces..remeber that today yet another soldier killed in Baghdad...he suffered yet another RPG attack.......guess they forgot that they were supposed to be demoralised by the deaths...number of popped marines now up to 153

Posted by stevey robinson 2003-7-22 4:37:47 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:37:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Just wondering - is there such a place as the "Gates of Baghdad"? Sure would look good with a couple of pikes decorating it, if it exists. If not, what the hell, post the skulls in front of Moe Sadr's house...

Posted by mojo 2003-7-22 4:40:37 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:40:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 And that seems to make you happy, doesn't it, Stevey, you sick little f***.

Posted by Nero 2003-7-22 4:44:11 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:44:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Boy, I bet whoever plugged them has a BIG smile on his face!

Posted by Paul 2003-7-22 4:44:19 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:44:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Rex you read my mind! Dick, Joe, and Howie, how do you like your crow well, med, or rare? BBQ and brewski tonight!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-7-22 4:45:24 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:45:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Stevey is right - the war isnt over yet - when mussolini and his wife were hanged, the allies still had lots of dying to do. Indeed, plenty of Marines were "popped" on Okinawa AFTER Hitler lay dead on the floor of his bunker. Indeed, is not joy always mixed with sadness. Right now I am not entirely joyful - this has been an occasion to read about and reflect on the victims of Qusay and Uday - those victims will not be brought back, though one may hope that their survivors, and those who suffered torture but lived, will now know some closure.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 4:55:07 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Stevey R. "number of popped marines now up to 153". Do you no the difference between soldiers and marines ?

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 4:56:33 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:56:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Stevey >>> 1) Those aren't all combat deaths. I'm surprised liberal loonies like you don't count soldiers getting their wisdom teeth pulled out as "wounded in action".

2) TIP: It's a combat zone, people will die.

3) It tooks months to equal what we lost in 96 hours of the first war. Yeah, massive casualties,huh? (Anyone that's been in the military knows that in both conflicts (even combined) the casualties have been extremely light.) I bet you think Somalia was a massacre, huh?

4) It took one day at Normandy to lose about 3,300 soldiers. Thank God above people like you and things like CNN weren't around back then. We would've given up after Pearl Harbor.

5) I bet you're all for going into Liberia, though.

6) Lastly, I bet you're "against the war", but "support the troops", right. ASS!

Posted by Paul 2003-7-22 5:08:15 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:08:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 LH: It never brings em back...but it stops it from continuing. That is a GOOD thing and I WILL celebrate it - heck the reports are of celebrating in Baghdad already. They apparently like it.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-7-22 5:09:35 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:09:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 LH, all the more reason to be happy that justice has been served. No one is claiming that the war is over, but this is a significant win for the good guys. Saddam's legacy is finished, all that remains is the old man himself. Wonder what's going through his mind right now ?

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 5:12:31 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:12:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 don't feed the trolls. Ululate until you can't any more and brewskis all around. LH: this doesn't make up for what the sick f*&k did, but it sure means they won't do it again, right. I refuse to see this as anything less than a major coup. Dad's next - Who wants to be a ($25 )Millionaire???

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-22 5:13:04 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:13:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Im not saying not to celebrate - maybe its just my jewish thing - on passover, when we have a feast to celebrate liberation from Egypt, we dip parsley in salt water to remember the bitterness of slavery, AND we pour out ten drops of wine to show our joy is not total, in memory of innocent egyptians who suffered in the ten plagues. Joy is wonderful, and this is an occasion for it, but joy is not unmixed. Which is my way of responding to Steveys posting, which seemed to indicate that to celebrate was to ignore what is going on. I think it is not - I have danced at the weddings of holocaust survivors' children, and beleive me, few things are sweeter, though the memories are still there.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 5:19:04 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:19:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 don't feed the trolls
Rantburg National Park policy ?
Ululate
Exactly how is this prononced ?
brewskis all around
That's right and fade to black and "Yippy ki yay MF!"

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 5:20:03 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:20:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 domingo - well not even that - when saddam is found and Iraq is done, there is still Al Qaeeda to finish off, and several other rogue states to deal with. The WOT, of which Op iraqi freedom is only one campaign, goes on.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 5:21:30 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:21:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 I'm back from ululating and popping a brewski ... right now!
Here's to the Screaming Eagles!
and
Here's to the brave (and now rich) person that gave the US military that tip!

Posted by Kathy K 2003-7-22 5:22:32 PM|| [site-essential.com/] 2003-7-22 5:22:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 LH, I understand what your saying. A little thoughtful and introspective for me but to each there own. I prefer to supress my emotions in typical American male fashion =).

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 5:23:14 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:23:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 when i have my brewski tonight, i will pour off some drops - for the Kurds, for the Marsh Arabs, for the Shiite victims of '91, for the victims of Uday's rapes, for the Iraqi athletes, for all the other victims, for the American soldiers AND Marines, and, yes, for the victims of 9/11 (for this victory is not unrelated to that, by any means). And the beer will not taste any worse for that, but better.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 5:27:20 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:27:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 I forgot to add the following Comment earlier:
'Now open for business! The Hussein wing of HELL!'

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-7-22 5:29:47 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:29:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 LH: Quite respectable. Cheers!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-7-22 5:38:55 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:38:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 There is no shame in celebrating the violent deaths of those two psychopaths.

Iraqis now know for damn sure they are not coming back to power. Will Saddam be mad enough to do something stupid and get nailed himself?

I suspect we caught some people there even though the conflicting reports now say everybody died. Although 101st is getting the credit, I bet they mostly provided security and firepower while the special ops boys went in.

Kudos to the military. Good for that tipster--now rich. I don't miss one penny of my tax money for that program.

And we are allowed to celebrate for exactly 10 minutes. Then it is on with the mission.

How long will it take for Begala and Carville to complain the boys weren't Mirandized and given the Dream Team for legal defense?

Posted by BJD (The Dignified Rant) 2003-7-22 5:53:12 PM|| [www.geocities.com/brianjamesdunn/TDRhome.html] 2003-7-22 5:53:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 Stevey's right. We really shouldn't be celebrating at this point. After all, Saddam and Osama are still out there. There are still at least one or two armed Ba'athist insurgents out there to deal with after that. And after that, Baghdad needs reliable electricity 24/7. And after that, the WMDs have to be found. And after that, every child must be immunized. And after that, they'll need that 2-ply toilet paper that doesn't chafe. And after that, there's curing the common cold. Oh, and paper cuts. And that film that forms on the shower curtain. And toejam. And open soda cans that turn flat. Skunky beer. And warts. Moles that grow hair (ick). .,,...,..,

But once we've taken care of all that,
WOO! PAR-TAY!

Posted by Dar 2003-7-22 5:56:23 PM|| 2003-7-22 5:56:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 Allah, it must be a humuliating day for the islamonutcase arabs!

They must be heaving their guts in shame and rage.

All in all a good day.

Posted by Michael 2003-7-22 6:06:06 PM|| 2003-7-22 6:06:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 good those guys were bad guys..especially the taller UDAY.... but the people killing soldiers weren't taking orders from the fallen scoundrels...creeps from all over the islamic world with a grudge against America are getting into iraq right now for the JIHAD and tickets to ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST GLORY.......Alqaeda types and ofshoots are crowding to babylonia for jihad...and yes...also killed today was another soldier...if we cant secure a treacherous six mile stretch of an Airport highway..there r do it yourself videos in SYRIA,JORDAN,YEMEN telling young muslims how to kill American soldiers,,,with a small pistol hidden...sneak up behind him and shoot once on the back neck....and it has been done atleast ten times alreadye.t.c how are we gonna secure the whole damn place...plus the shi'ite beast in the south turns out doesnt really have any love for America..they even ridicule Al Sistani for his persian accented Arabic..now that those guys are dead..they might say..thats it go home now..it our(shiites) turn...i'm next

Posted by stevey robinson 2003-7-22 6:10:23 PM|| 2003-7-22 6:10:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 Martini for everybody.
Now the ash tree pole in the heart.
Plug of joy:
Coulter for President.

Posted by POITIERS 2003-7-22 6:29:46 PM|| 2003-7-22 6:29:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 Ah, stevey. Hanging out at Rantburg is bad for you -- your're engaging in dialogue now. Next thing you know you'll be forming logical arguments and reading history. Then you'll be one of us! BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-22 6:49:43 PM|| 2003-7-22 6:49:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 If Saddam is indeed still alive, the noose is slowly tightening.......around his neck.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-22 6:51:14 PM|| 2003-7-22 6:51:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 Stevie, those people who are motivated to go kill Americans will do so regardless. They need no special prompting, only means. It's better they try to take on the soldier than civilians and children, as they do in Israel and here on 9/11. Here's a blindling flash of the obvious for you, after Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, most the the volunteers know what they're getting into better than any other time in history. I did my twenty and understood that at anytime I could be asked to give my last full measure of devotion. And I'm still subject to recall at anytime at the request of the Secretary. To paraphrase Kipling, we take the King's schilling and we takes the King's chances. It's the same as the guys who wear the badge on your streets and those who shoulder the fire hoses in your neighborhood. Someone's got to do the dirty work in life so people like you whine that this is not all PERFECT. It's never been perfect anytime in human history. It's always been tradeoffs.

These aren't gurrillas because in the third stage of classical gurrilla warfare the insurgents join with main force units to destroy their opponent as was the case in Vietnam and China. No, these are just thugs, organized no better than the Bloods or the Krips or the classical Godfather mafia. The can intimidate, as it appears they do you. But they know they can't stand up to regular formations for more than a cheap shot. It isn't that hard to differenciate between a local Iraqi and a Paleo, Syrian, Lebannese, et al. As this event demonstrates more and more locales pointing out the trouble makers. Will we get them all? Hell, no. No more than we here in the US can get all the gang members and dealers off our streets. However, we can abate the level of crime and its associated cancer. For that about 147 police officers paid the price with their lives last year here in the US. So I extrapolate from your comments, that isn't worth it and we should have them all turn in their badges and guns. Let the thugs and druggies rule your neighborhood for a while.

Grima Wormtongue indeed!

Posted by Don 2003-7-22 7:02:34 PM|| 2003-7-22 7:02:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 The timely demise of Uday and Qusay are reasons to celebrate. However, the U.S. must exert every effort to capture or kill Saddam's remaining son, the little known financial genius in charge of acquiring components for messages of mass destruction--Ebay.

Posted by Ralph 2003-7-22 7:37:31 PM|| 2003-7-22 7:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 word gets around that we payed up the $15 mil, how long will it be before someone is looking for the $25 MIL?

Posted by john 2003-7-22 8:42:38 PM|| 2003-7-22 8:42:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 Ralph: ROTFLMAO!

Rest in torment, Uday and Qusay. Rest in peace, all ye whom they murdered.

Posted by Ri'Neref 2003-7-22 9:17:07 PM|| 2003-7-22 9:17:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 Paul wrote: It took one day at Normandy to lose about 3,300 soldiers

It took one day in NY and DC to lose 3000 people in a time of peace. This is why we have to take out the garbage.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-22 9:18:55 PM|| 2003-7-22 9:18:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Stevie were did you learn English ?
"Fallen scoundrels" ? are you some kind of poet or a foreign spin doctor ?

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 9:42:43 PM|| 2003-7-22 9:42:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 Bad day, Stevey? Maybe tomorrow will be better. Maybe another "marine" will get popped and you'll feel better.
Asshole.

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-22 10:27:28 PM|| 2003-7-22 10:27:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 Dar---your post with the WOO PAR-TAY on the end almost made me choke on my salad. Great Post. We are in Iraq for the long haul. Watch the hands and, well, listen to the mouth if you wish. The middle ~~earth~~ east needs to realize that they will be part of the civilized world in the near future one way or another. Do they want to help themselves, or do they want to be dragged kicking and screaming?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-22 10:52:53 PM|| 2003-7-22 10:52:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#52 Ululation from vacation. Does the 101 have two pikes in its gear?

Posted by Matt 2003-7-22 11:28:59 PM|| 2003-7-22 11:28:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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