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Iraq
Arabs Have Mixed Emotions About Cowering Saddam Capture
2003-12-14
EFL & Rooters Bias

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arabs greeted the capture of Saddam Hussein with divided emotions Sunday, regretting welcoming the arrest of a dictator yet tinged with regret that a ‘symbol’ of Arab defiance against the United States was behind bars.
Tap, tap...
Some feared Saddam’s capture would boost President Bush, who many Arabs believe has waged a campaign against them and other Muslims after the September 11 attacks. But others said that we have all learned to dig our own spider holes the fight against U.S. occupation would go on.

For others, the capture was disappointing news. Saddam may have been seen as a dictator who oppressed his people, but many also saw him as the only Arab leader who stood up to the United States, which they said rode roughshod through the region.
‘The only Arab leader who stood up to the United Sates... .’ Lesson learned?

Asshats Others said the U.S. success might prove to have a lasting and deep impact fleeting, saying Iraqis were not fighting for Saddam but for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Poor sportsmanship.
"The situation in Iraq will not change much. I don’t think the resistance was linked to Saddam and it will increase as was the case after the death of Uday and Qusay," said Yemeni political analyst Saeed Shabet, referring to Saddam’s two sons.
Consider the source.
In Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians are pointlessly fighting against an Israeli occupation, some were in somber mood that the United States, correctly perceived as providing unswerving support for Israel, could claim victory.
‘Occupation’? GO TO HELL YOU WARLOCK!
"It’s a great 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.
Boo, efing, hoo. Tough sh*t assclown!
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#11  Frank,
I think Bulldog and Artis have been arguing about whether the RA should be included in the Constitution for the longest.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-12-14 9:12:34 PM  

#10  Hey you can't blame the Arabs for what they think. The have been fed that anti-American crap for so long. They still think Saddam is a great leader. Wait a couple of years after they see the Democracy in Iraq. I am not angry I just pity them. At least Howard Dean thinks the capture is a good think. Kerry acted as though Bush orchestrated the capture. I pity these two as well.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2003-12-14 7:03:12 PM  

#9  "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,"

-and who was saying no to Saddam's injustice in the Middle East? Stupid Asshole.
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-12-14 5:39:00 PM  

#8  the EU?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-14 5:07:33 PM  

#7  I believe an RA is considered a common courtesy in some circles.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-12-14 4:17:50 PM  

#6  4thInfVet - I hope most of the RB'ers don't know what a reach-around is LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-14 3:20:13 PM  

#5  "the global community stands behind them"

Well, the french and germans were standing behind the Iraqis, certainly. But they didn't even have the decency to offer them a reach-around.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2003-12-14 1:59:49 PM  

#4  CNN Anchors seem to be spinning a little, watching Blitzer and co do a tap dance about "a great celibration in Iraq, except a lot of violence ahead" They got very excited about the Bahgdad car bomb until they found out it was only an accident. Blitz had Joe Wilson on to comment....extreme irony considering the Telegraph posts here. He is talking the new Demo party line about 'internationalizing' Saddam's trial so that all Iraqis can see how "the global community stands behind them". Right. 12 years of UN sanction was 'standing behind' Iraqis fer sure.
Posted by: john   2003-12-14 1:21:55 PM  

#3  Reuters will keep spinning like a top slowly moving across the floor until it falls down the stairs. Then it spins around on it side in a circle until it runs out of gas. They can't see reality if it slapped them in the face. Unbelieveable.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-12-14 1:12:42 PM  

#2  I love this comment from a similar article. CLASS=ED HREF="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031214/D7VE8A0G1.html"

"Makhoul, however, said he was sad that Saddam should meet his fate at the hands of the Americans, whom he said "cared nothing about the Iraqi people."

Samer Saado, an employee at a Damascus flower shop, said he didn't care about Saddam but felt overwhelming sadness for Iraq and the entire Arab world.

"What the Americans are doing in Iraq and everywhere else is humiliating. There's nothing to say we're not next in line," he said."

You got that right, boy.
Posted by: B   2003-12-14 1:11:00 PM  

#1  heh heh Nabbed like a rat hiding in a hole.

You could replace 'arabs' with 'CNN anchors' and it would still be true.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2003-12-14 12:08:40 PM  

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