Ok. Saddam's caught. So what? It still doesn't change a DAMN thing!

[Hawkeye-X]

Ok, so what? That is what everyone should be thinking. So what if some Iraqi asshole got caught? It still doesn't change a damn thing. The armed forces, led by Chimpy McFlightsuit, STILL does not have a exit strategy. If anything, I expect a much worse scenario for the American armed forces with increased casualities and fatalities.

Plus, the talking heads are still trying to push already-discredited Iraq-9/11 back to us, trying to make us believe those lies. Guess what? Reports are leaking out that our bestest buddy Saddam doesn't have WMDs after all. So we are wasting 150 billion dollars on a wild goose chase. We should be going after Osama bin Laden and his goons in the first place to finish this.

Just remember, yes, this capture of Hussein might give Chimpy Whistleass a bump, but it won't last long as long as the reports continue to show that our armed forces are constantly being harmed by angry and irate Iraqi guerillas who wants us out so they can establish whatever they want and kick the oil asses out too.

Mark my words. Like Chimpy's father, Chimpy will go down in major defeat in general elections in 2004. Chimpy is merely repeating the same mistakes that his father did in 1992.

Hawkeye-X

[goodhue]

1. bring the troops home

It does change the momentum in favor of bringing our troops home now, since the "mission" is "accomplished." And that is a good thing.

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

[Triana]

2. EXACTLY...

...What a sad commentary it is on this country how political correctness has replaced good old fashioned honesty. No one seems to want to be the first to react to the capture of Saddam Hussein in the manner I feel is not only appropriate but honest. What the heck, I’m already anti-American, unpatriotic and unsupportive of the troops for having dared question this illegitimate regime in Washington for literally months now, so I guess I’ll just revisit the script I used when Saddam’s statue was pulled down, and when Udai and Qusay were “killed”.

With the exception of the temporary boost Saddam’s capture will give our drained and weary warriors, which to me is the only plus in this story, so friggin’ what? The capture of Saddam Hussein does not change AT ALL that this nation was lied into war and our soldiers died as a result.

When everybody was gushing over the sight of Iraqi citizens rejoicing and dancing in the streets over the toppling of the statue, I went on the air and said “So friggin’ what?” At the time I also said, “Not collectively - not singularly - does the sight of one dancing Iraqi or every dancing Iraqi in the entire country – justify to me the death of even one American soldier." Nor was their “dancing” the reason we were given for the war.

When Udai and Qusay were “killed”, again I said “So friggin’ what?” I said the Iraqi people were not killing our soldiers because Udai and Qusay were still alive. I also said at the time that our boys were not being killed because Saddam Hussein was still alive, or at least, still unaccounted for.

When the statue was toppled, people called me on the air and told me what a BIG day it was. I told them at the time I didn’t see it as a big deal at ALL, and that if toppling the statue or Saddam himself was the main goal of our illegal invasion, we could’ve turned it over to the CIA and let them depose him, just like they deposed the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.

We didn’t have to attack an entire country. That is not why we were told we could not let the weapons inspectors have any more time, and why we had to go to war immediately.

And for those of you who are still clinging to the “gassed his own people” or “mass graves” ruses as a justifications for this war, just remember it was Ronald “I don’t swear and I love everyone who has AIDS” Reagan and the first Bush liar who sold Saddam the dual purpose technology and the precursors he needed to gas – not his own people - just more spin and lies by the Bush thugs - but the Kurds – AND – that Reagan gave them to him knowing full well he had already gassed the Iranians. Reagan continued to supply Saddam with germs, viruses and precursors even after he knew he had gassed the Kurds, in fact, the Kurds were gassed using American made helicopters. And yes, we’ve seen the film footage of SecDef Dumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand...

http://www.buzzflash.com/buzzscripts/buzz.dll/content

[Sparkle]

3. I'm just enjoying the orgasms by the bush butt kissers.

It's so "enchanting".

[caledesi]

4. HX - You said it! That's exactly how I feel. What's the BFD?

In fact, the situ in Iraq is going to get worse and now the thugs can't blame the Saddam Loyalists. They are in deep sh*t and don't even know it.

We must keep pounding it home - where are the WMDs? Comeon, SH, where are they? The thugs have their "Ace of Spades"...so where the f*ck are the WMDs?

[expatriot]

5. you're wrong... the situation will now get worse...

the only thing that kept some Iraqis from joining the resistance was the fear that the only alternative to the US occupation was a return of Saddam... now you will have Shiites in the south much more "at liberty" to fight the Western invaders and the Kurds will be much more demanding of Independence.

[sasquatch]

6. "Welcome to hell on earth soldier"

The good news: The natives can't stand each other
The bad news: The natives have come to a common ground when it comes to dealing with you. Kill you on sight:(

[ferg]

7. exactly. This does change things.

Also, a good number of Americans believe the exact opposite. Many believe that Saddam's capture means the troops will be coming home soon.

Some may even think that we can now occupy Iraq and control its oil without opposition, but I'd suspect more just would want us to leave immediately.

Assuming the Iraqi resistance continues or increases, it would probably prompt stronger American calls for us to leave. Bush no longer has Saddam as an excuse for the resistance.

[frogfromthenorth2]

8. Easier to find a hole in the ground than WMD ?!?!?

How is it that they were able to find a guy in a small hole in the ground but that they are not even able to find any trace of WMD???? I am glad they caught him but that's not the brochure said at the beginning of the war : it said : "to find WMD"

[Muddleoftheroad]

9. If you live in Iraq

It changes a hell of a lot.

Even for the American troops there, Saddam was the major roadblock to a longterm handover of power because both groups were afraid he would come back.

Guess what? He won't.

[TacticalPeek]

10. They just brought him back to run the electrical grid.

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