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2003-12-14 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-14 08:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think the video will form the first few minutes of GWB's convention video. And rightly so.

Posted by Tibor 2003-12-14 8:27:59 AM|| 2003-12-14 8:27:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It will be an unhappy breakfast at Al Jazzera, the BBC, CNN and the faculty lounge at UC Berkeley.

Posted by mhw 2003-12-14 9:16:02 AM|| 2003-12-14 9:16:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, that's one Democrat talking point taken away.

The trolls are gonna be hell for the next day and a half.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-12-14 9:32:36 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-12-14 9:32:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 How many Ninecompoops will drop out this week? Lieberman and Gephart seem to be the smartest of them...

Terrible things are being plotted for the next 11 months by the Bad Guys. If they don't come off, the Dems might as well mail in their participation in the elections. If they come off and Bush handles them as he's demonstrated he can, they still might as well mail it in.

Posted by Fred 2003-12-14 11:49:27 AM|| 2003-12-14 11:49:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Notice something odd. People (also journalists) worldwide talk about "Saddam Hussein," or "Saddam," or "Hussein." In the NYT he's consistently "Mr. Hussein" Anyone care to psychoanalyze that? NYT item on this event ended with a oh, btw, another bombing note, desperate for as many RPMs as they could muster.

OH THEY TOOK IT OUT

NYT story by Wong and Semple has been rewritten since it was first put up. He's still Mr. Hussein to then tho.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-14 12:32:34 PM|| 2003-12-14 12:32:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm switching between the two main french continous news channels : how do you put it, "boy, theses grapes are sour"?
The spin is so viloent I'm feeling dizzy. I-tÃ©lÃ©, the *letf* leaning one, has invited one of the french MP that got into Irak prior to the war, courtesy of an pro-iraqi big business lobby; all he can say is "No WMD! At least, Saddam was a secular dictator, and now the USA have opened the pandora box! He's been taken alive because it was peshmergas fighters that got him, his sons had to be bombed with cannons & planes! No WMD! As the prez said where are the WMD?! Saddam will be judged, unless he hangs himself, or is found hanged in his cell! And look at all the others dictators! The USA would have gone to Irak anyway, for political and economical reasons!"... and so on. You'd love it!
Oh, and now the USA may be embarassed, 'cause Saddam will spill out what he knows about the western countries that supported him, like the USA, wink, wink. Hilarious.
All the experts are here; so far, only FrÃ©dÃ©ric Encel, a geopolitician (who reminded the anchorman of the french iraqi nuclear program, when he said that the USA supported Saddam...) and Bernard Koushner, socialist/french doctor (both of them supported the Us intervention, btw) have clearly expressed their satisfaction about the capture one of the worst 20th century mass-murderer.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-14 1:04:55 PM|| 2003-12-14 1:04:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 yes, a terrible failure for the USA - 600 men and we still couldn't kill him! allah be praised!

Posted by flash91 2003-12-14 1:11:52 PM|| 2003-12-14 1:11:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The part I like best is that he was taken without a single shot being fired. Too bad he didn't fire the only round.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2003-12-14 6:58:09 PM|| 2003-12-14 6:58:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Glenn, the Times always refers to men as Mr Whoever, whether is is Mr Blair or Mr Bin Ladin

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-12-14 7:59:52 PM|| 2003-12-14 7:59:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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