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| Zhirinovsky conveys condolences to Saddam | |
| 2003-07-26 | |
Deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma, the leader of the ultranationalist Liberal-Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky has expressed his condolences in a letter to the dethroned Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in connection with the death of his sons, Odai and Qusai. The letter to Saddam was forwarded to the Iraqi embassy in Moscow on Friday, the LDPR faction said. Odai, 39, and Qusai, 37, were killed in a gunbattle with U.S. forces Tuesday after an Iraqi informant tipped the Americans to their presence.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #12 Shit, I've read that there is some doubt as to whether we got the boys. Shouldn't Vlad hold off on his condoleances? NMM, you're ridiculous. Fox News has an audience of 800,000. CBS(Saddam bootlicker, Dan Rather), NBC, ABC(Peter Jennings swooned while talking to Iraqi "MP" who had survived "carpet bombing") have an audience of 33 million. Mo Dowd and Krugman? Pro-war voices have only one place to go: the radio and blogs. Don't worry, if Rush didn't have an audience, he'd be dropped like a hot potato. Leftists equivalents wouldn't last 2 months unless a billionaire bought a station and was willing to lose millions. You think Murdoch stands for losing money just to brainwash the likes of you? Smell the coffee. |
| Posted by: michael 2003-7-26 11:39:46 PM |
| #11 NMM... Dude your nom de plume is most apt. Although I don't agree with his politics, MM can be funny. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2003-7-26 11:19:48 PM |
| #10 NMM - that's why left-wing talk radio doesn't do well without gov't subsidy (NPR) - not entertaining, enlightening, or amusing. Sorry...but hey, you've always got Al Franken! so you've got that going for you...which is nice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-26 5:25:02 PM |
| #9 Yeah them Dems gets a free pass on |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-7-26 5:07:49 PM |
| #8 SOG475 - Spot-on comments. Additional observation: They do have a very sympathetic press to help them squirm past the flip flops... except when a "journalist" thinks it's juicy enough to make him a star, that is. In today's brand of journalism it appears that the rule is: to get ahead, to succeed, you gotta take somebody down. It's become a canabalistic occupation. So the Dems, though generally given a pass, do have to be careful - and stroke the hell outta the "journalists" when the cameras are off. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-26 1:15:23 PM |
| #7 Problem is that like Tom DeLay said, the Dems have gone off the deep end. They actually are aligning themselves with Saddam Hussien. You know, they rip their hair over our casualties, and they beat their breasts over Liberia but heaven forbid that a Republican President ever did any thing humanitarian that wasn't their idea first....wait it WAS their idea, didn't the Dems all line up during the Clinton Administration and say "Yep, Saddam is a threat to world peace and we should go in there and get rid of him and his WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION......." Funny, they seem to think that no one will remember or mention their flip flops. They are whining about how long we have been in Iraq and the casualties.....how long have we had troops in KOSOVO and does anyone have a running tally on how many have been killed by MOSLEM extremists??? You know I clearly understand "politics as usual" but this is not "politics as usual", this is insanity. AND they run the big risk of being embarrassed over WMD and embarrassed in the next election. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-7-26 12:39:57 PM |
| #6 Isn't Zhirinovsky the one who wants to take back Alaska? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2003-7-26 12:17:53 PM |
| #5 I don't know how familiar you guys are with Zhirinovsky. This guy makes Kim Jong Il look tame and completely sane by comparison. He would actually be funny except that some Russians actually vote for him and Russia already has nukes. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-7-26 7:40:18 AM |
| #4 gee, would he send a letter to the victims of Uday and Qusay's sadistic and murderous tendencies? |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-7-26 3:10:23 AM |
| #3 And in a related story: Howard Dean of the Ultraknucklehead Liberal Democratic Party sent Saddam Hussein a Vermont Pity Bear to express the condolences of The Party's Central Committee. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-7-26 2:30:04 AM |
| #2 :: perk :: What address did he send it to? |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-7-26 1:33:22 AM |
| #1 "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Good to see some things never change. I think... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-7-26 12:46:25 AM |