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2003-09-17 Iraq

Fugitive is offered his dignity for surrender

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-09-17 13:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here, take this oral antibiotic giggle juice, er fruit juice, General and that will clear up your inflection, er infection.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-17 1:49:10 PM|| 2003-9-17 1:49:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oddly, in the link list at the top of the page, this story appears right above the one about the Princess marrying the acrobat. Evidently the same offer to preserve her dignity was not made.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-9-17 2:06:53 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-9-17 2:06:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 How Clintonian
"will not be physically or mentally mistreated while under my custody".

How long does that last? Two hours? Two days? Ahmed...I'd like you to meet Dr's Payne and Hurten. I'll be transferring you to their custody now. You take care...see ya round.

Posted by Becky 2003-9-17 2:50:32 PM|| 2003-9-17 2:50:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ahmed is this guy: During the 1991 Gulf War, Ahmed, then a lieutenant general, was deputy chief of staff of the Defense Ministry, and was picked by Saddam to head the Iraqi delegation at cease-fire talks at Safwan, an airstrip just north of the Kuwait-Iraq border. Ahmed was responsible for persuading Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf to allow Iraq to use military helicopters on official business. The allies came to regret that decision a month or so later when the Iraqis used helicopter gunships to help quell rebellious Shiites in Basra and Kurds in the north.

Just tell he's got 24 hours to turn himself in or we turn the subject over to the Kurds.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-17 3:28:04 PM|| 2003-9-17 3:28:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Maj-Gen Petraeus just offered Sultan Hashim Ahmed a nice honorable surrender and no mistreatment. Nothing else. Nice words, though. Ahmed better take it because that is the best that he will get. We are holding all the cards. On the lam he will be toast.

"Damn, we're in a tight spot!"
-Ulysses Everett McGill in the movie Oh, Brother, where art thou?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-17 3:47:28 PM|| 2003-9-17 3:47:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Fugitive is offered his dignity for surrender"

How can you offer a guy "HIS" dignity? I mean, something which he never had in the first place?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-17 7:31:27 PM|| 2003-9-17 7:31:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Dignity" what regime do we think we're talking to. He was a member of the demento squad. Offer him a blow-up doll, a roll of paper towels, seven jars of Vasaline, six Hustler magazines, unlimited Viagra and soem Neil Diamond records. His entire staff may surrender at once.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-17 8:17:32 PM|| 2003-9-17 8:17:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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