Bush: Saddam's Pistol Now U.S. Property

[Khephra]

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- President Bush will give Iraq's new leaders full sovereignty, billions in rebuilding aid and the protection of 138,000 U.S. troops. But it doesn't sound like they'll be getting Saddam Hussein's pistol anytime soon. It's U.S. property, Bush says.

Members of the Delta Force commando team that captured the former Iraqi leader Dec. 13 gave the pistol to Bush during a White House visit. The president keeps the gun in a small study adjoining the Oval Office.

At a news conference following the Group of Eight summit in Sea Island, Ga., a reporter asked Bush if he planned to keep it or if he would give it to Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawer.

more..........

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-bush-saddams-pistol,0,371925.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[htuttle]

1. It's the centerpiece of a little shrine he's built in the WH basement

The wall behind it is plastered with little pictures of Saddam he's cut out of magazines and newspapers.

He makes Laura knock before she comes down there...

[pinniped]

2. * is a sorry sack o' $hit...

Maybe the reporter shoud've asked, "why is it U.S. property"?

Dumb$hit would've scratched his head waiting for something to "pop" into his thick head.

[louis-t]

4. That would fall under

the 'spoils of war' line of bull.

[Lisa]

3. I thought that several military units aided in the capture ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.saddam.operation/

Yet the Delta Force people end up with the gun (and now, the implied credit for the operation)?

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. prolly wasent even saddam's gun

the delta force just put an M1911a1 on a plack and labeled it saddam's gun as a "get out of iraq free" card

[riverwalker]

5. 850 soldiers died for his little "souvenir"

he keeps it next to the shrunken heads and his severed ear necklace. The effen ghoul.

[indepat]

11. And if we have suffered more than twenty thousand total casualties,

just think how many were inflicted on the Iraqi people.

[pinto]

6. Busboy keeps it in his spider hole, whispering "Precious, precious"

[Unperson 309]

22. BWAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Thanks for that IMAGE! Now for SURE I won't sleep tonight!

Oh, Dear GODDDDD!

"Yesssss, My Preciousssss, we will get selected again, we willllll!
We are going to do something nasssss-tyyyy tomorrowwww, ooooh, My Preccccioussssss, yes we arrrrrre! Something bad to that horrrrible
Kerry! We HATES it, my Precioussss, yes we doessss, Hates it and its bright lightsssss! Burns us, it does, Nassssssty Democratses!"

With those awful eyes of his and the damp sticky look he's taken on recently..
EWWWWW!

309

[pinto]

25. "We HATES it"....(even the syntax perversion rings true).

[WLKjr]

33. LOL, that was original

now if someone could photoshop a pic of smegle and put *'s face on it, that would be awesome with that text below the pic!

[gratuitous]

8. It's U.S. property?

Really? Can I have it for a while, then? We have a receipt, right? Paid fair market value, right? If not, then I'm sure Lil George will be declaring the value of the gift -- what are the lives of 820 servicemen and women along with thousands and thousands of Iraqis worth? Sounds like Stupidhead might want to start making some estimated tax payments.

[loftycity]

10. Gratuitous, great post and point

He probably send it off the Skull & Bones as a gift from Temporary.

[truthisfreedom]

9. the possessive fool. US property, huh? how is it that one can be in

violation of the law for possessing a piece of an airplane used to attack the WTC, yet not for being in possession of evidence of a war crime?

bush just makes up the rules as he goes along.

[Beetwasher]

12. WIFCDT?

What If Clinton Did This?

[WLKjr]

31. I will tell you

It would be called "pistolgate" and we would spend a billion dollars to hire special prosecutors to find out when he got it and if he shot it and where he got bullets for it and if it was registered and if he killed anyone or bribed anyone.......


remember, it was all about the clenis.

[Sterling]

13. It was not delta force that got him. It was regular army, I think 4id

Maybe that is the new myth being promoted like the Lynch BS but the truth is less exciting I guess?

[indepat]

14. If the pistol is US property, does that mean GWB intends to leave it at

WH for his successor, be it in 2005 or 2009 (or later if he intends to stay even longer)?

[CHIMO]

15. Careful

It may be cursed!

[stepnw1f]

16. U.S. Property - Good, now put it where all of "US" can see it. (nt)

[struggle4progress]

17. Nice example of Dubya's style:

Q: You do have now the personal gun of Saddam Hussein. Are you willing to give it to President Al-Yawer as a symbolic gift or you're keeping it?

BUSH: What she is referring to is members of a Delta team came to see me in the Oval Office and brought with me -- these were the people that Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, hiding in a hole.

And, by the way, let me remind everybody about Saddam Hussein, just in case we all forget: There were mass graves under his leadership. There were torture chambers.

Saddam Hussein, if you -- we had seven people come to my office -- perhaps the foreign press didn't receive this story.
Seven people came with a story, they had their hands cut off, because the Iraqi currency had devalued, and Saddam Hussein needed somebody to blame, so he blamed small merchants. And their hands were chopped off, their right hand.

Fortunately, a documentary filmmaker went to Baghdad and filmed these seven men. And their story was picked up around the nation, particularly in Houston, Texas, where a person named Marvin Zindler, who runs a foundation took great sympathy and flew them over and had new hands put on. The latest prosthesis were put on their hands -- were put on their arms. And their hands worked.

I remember the guy signing "God bless America" with his new hand in the Oval Office.

So this is the person -- so, needless to say, our people were thrilled to have captured him.

And in his lap were several weapons. One of them was a pistol, and they brought it to me. It's now the property of the U.S. government.

And I am grateful for their bravery. I'm also grateful that that part of the mission was accomplished for the good of the Iraqi people.
This is your area, right?


I guess the answer is, "No, Al-Yawer can't have this gun unless he pries it from my hand."

Needless to say, I wondered a bit about why "our people were thrilled to have captured" that "guy signing 'God bless America' with his new hand in the Oval Office," but then there's a lot I don't understand.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. What the Hell?

What the Hell was that? That made no SENSE WHAT SO EVER! Bloody Hell, bush* is STOOPID! :argh:

[TahitiNut]

18. Let's hope if he decides to use it ...

... it works. :eyes:

[Fridays Child]

19. When he tries to sneak it out of the White House, after we evict him...

...remember that he said, "It's now the property of the U.S. government."

[Piperay]

20. Chimp needs it...

he strokes it so that he 'get off'. :puke:

[WLKjr]

32. or maybe

when things really sink to a new low, he will use the last bullet on himself....

Maybe that's why he keeps it so close, you know just in case.

[sniffa]

21. how many iraquiLLions did that pistoL cost?

[amber dog democrat]

28. used to be there would be a triumph

with armies, slaves, captured spoils, and captive prisoners marched by the Senate...

and now, all i got was this lousey pistol ( any bet that it is NOT a Markarov 9 x 18? ) .

[Cocoa]

23. finders keepers losers weepers

[Darranar]

24. So stolen goods are the property of the thief?

The same principle will likely be applied to Iraq's oil....

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Laura - " Mrs. Hussein's vibrator now property of the US as well"

[Hobarticus]

27. We probably gave it to him in the first place!

Rummy hand-delivered it in a nice silk-lined oak case and everything.

[L.A.dweller]

37. Or wait, was that Reagan

who supplied it for him?

Bush is such white trash.

[PartyPooper]

29. Junior's secret little fetish. He'll probably call the Franklin Mint.

After all, they might even be interested in 'reproductions'...at a price. I'm sure they could market and sell millions to depraved, inadequate Amerikan males everywhere!

:eyes:

[saracat]

30. So the "Delta Force"

just dropped it in his lap like the head of John the Baptist? I'm surprised he doesn't have more than the gun!

[saigon68]

34. Actually he has the Photos from Abu Ghraib

Of naked women and men and Lynndie

What more does he need for arousal ???

[Barkley]

35. Why keep an "evil doer's" gun?

If Hussein was so terrible why keep momentos of him?

How many people were killed with that gun?

[colonel odis]

36. how many people here believe that's really saddam's gun?

after the fake turkey on thanksgiving?

the out-and-out lie about the british airways jet asking if that's air force one they saw?

how about a show of hands. who here believes bush really has saddam's pistol in his office?

ok...... that's one. oh, sorry. you're scratching your head, you say.

now. how many people believe george w. bush is a pathological liar whose handlers don't even allow him around handguns, much less would have given him saddam's pistol.

ok.... hang on. still counting .......

still counting....

ok. i see that's everybody.

sorry, w. no one believes your sorry ass.

[number6]

38. Bu$h is dickless so he's gotta have something ....

:evilgrin:

[Demeter]

40. This Is So Sick!

And so epitomizes the whole regime. Anybody but Bush.


What would happen if we held an election, and all the incumbents were indicted or under impeachment?