No Safer With Saddam In The Slammer (Jimmy Breslin)

[dajabr]

January 2, 2004

First, the other day, Howard Dean, candidate for president, said he didn't think that the capture of Saddam Hussein made us any safer in America. The other politicians screamed that he was un-American. It was John Kerry who said, How could Dean dare say that we were not safer now? You could see that just by watching how we examined Saddam Hussein for scarlet fever in front of the world.

After Saddam's capture, there was a weekend of propaganda that will be examined someday as the ultimate show of vulnerability and failure by the American news industry. The Pekingese of the Press raved about the government and its soldiers.

We had 140,000 troops trying to find Saddam for almost a year.

On the day he was found, an American soldier was killed. After that, 10 more were killed in a week. The Homeland Security raised the alert to orange. Planes coming to New York from Paris, London and Mexico were canceled. New Year's Eve in Times Square was a neon arsenal.

More: http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-bres0103,0,2114805.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

[Melodybe]

1. This is a good article, thanks for posting

[eileen from OH]

2. Absolutely. Dead on.

Great article. Thanks so much for posting.

eileen from OH

[ozone_man]

3. This is priceless.

I would look forward to a debate on this. Maybe we could get a real moderator, instead of Ted Koppell.

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Joseph Leiberman, who is a peripheral candidate now and thus a nasty little man, said that because Dean wants a fair trial Dean is despicable and so weak that he would melt in the face of George W. Bush.

John Kerry and Dick Gephardt were wildly opposed.

Yet all Dean has to do in this big Des Moines debate Sunday is ask each candidate, "Are you in favor of sentencing bin Laden before you have a trial?"

Let them answer in front of a country that is better than they are.

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[dajabr]

5. Jimmy Breslin IS New York in many ways...

He has no tolerance for BS, and knows no fear, and has a great affinity for the TRUTH.

[ozone_man]

8. Kick for New York.

:kick:

[Clark4Prez]

4. Hopefully more people will realize this

Kind of like after Otay and Pousee' or what ever their names were went to the hereafter courtesy of 5,000 American made bullets.

The insurgents didn't stop, the terrorists didn't stop, the deaths of American soldiers didn't stop.

As to the question the Rethugs love to ask, Would you rather have Saddam back? My answer, I would rather have my country back!

Are we safer now with Saddam in prison? No, no we're not, but then he was never a threat to us anyway, why should we be?

[madfloridian]

6. His remarks were "truth", not "gaffes".

I call shame on the people who keep saying that.

We need the truth badly now.

Excellent Breslin article. I am sharing that with our mailing list.

[dajabr]

7. "We need the truth badly now"

Yes, not propaganda as Breslin so rightly calls it.

Well said!

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