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[apocalypsos]

So. We got Saddam.

This is a good thing, because he is a mass-murdering fuckhead. Of course, he was definitely asking for it for not getting his sorry ass out of Dodge. What kind of an asshat is public enemy number one and hides in a basement in his freaking hometown? I don't know whether to smack him upside the head for being rock stupid and not going to Tahiti or the opposing forces for taking this long to find him.

Granted, it would have been hard to recognize him with that badger eating his face. Three-quarters of a million dollars in that basement with him and he couldn't send someone out to buy himself a disposable razor? He obviously had them buying him cheeseburgers, I don't see why a trip to the drugstore was such a stumper.

And if Blair and Bush come on CNN and pat themselves on the back in front of the world, I'm going to vomit. Unless both of them dressed up in fatigues, flew in special-like and rushed into that basement, I don't want to hear their shit. Especially considering if Bush will apparently dress up in fatigues and fly in special-like if it means shoveling turkey down the throats of guys who are actually brave enough to go in there and do the job. (I say this, of course, with the knowledge that I could never do their job, since I despise war, hate guns, freak out in stressful situations, and would probably lose a whole war by screwing up to Mr. Bean-esque proportions.)

Okay. Having said that ...

Now can we go find Osama?!

(It might be a good idea to check Saddam's beard for him. Seriously. I mean, I know it's the in-thing for desposed leaders to grow beards, but it looks like Saddam is prepping to play Santa, and that's an entirely new version of wrong.)

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[feath.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing about the money ... what, money, but no food or water? I'm thinking they just didn't list everything in that room. No point in shaving when no one's going to see you, hum? and it makes a good 'disguise'.

I too found it funnier than fuck that he went HOME to hide. How ... human.

They said he was co-operating, yadda yedda, and I kind of had to laugh then too. What's he got to worry about? The whole fucking world is watching how he gets treated. He's going to have a nice little cell in some military hotel environement, or 'safe house' or something, where the harshest thing he has is plastic knives to cut his steak. It's not like hes going to be in the next cage over at gauanto (sp). Ya know?

[tocomfortyou.livejournal.com]

Hey man, I am definitely no fan of Bush, but he and Blair got shit from like, everybody else in the world and they kept on and managed to capture a man who's eluded the world for decades. Hate him or no, I have to give him props.

Osama Bin Who?

[seferin.livejournal.com]

Bush may have just gotten re elected.

Never mind that:
the economy is on the skids
he is the first president since Herbert Hoover (who was President in 1929) to lose jobs
he is trying to shut down social security, medicare, and the environmental protection agency
he has gotten rid of Habeas Corpus
he has brought back McCarthyism
he is trying to end the separation between church and state
he is starving the government of funds, even as he cuts taxes for his supporters

If he gets elected, it will be a dark day for America.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

well, prepare to get sick because W is addressing the nation at noon. Blair already spoke briefly but back patting was kept at a minimum and he managed not to look too pleased with himself. I don't suppose W will be able to pull off the same.

[legion600.livejournal.com]

Actually, Saddam hasn't eluded anybody for decades. If you look back two decades to the 1980s, Saddam was our buddy because he didn't like Iran.
He's only been on the run for eight months.
It's good that we've got him but we went into Iraq for all the wrong reasons.

[fallofrain.livejournal.com]

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously.

--Excerpt from Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo

And that's all I have to say about that.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Amen!

Re: Osama Bin Who?

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the electronic voting machines that literally anyone can hack into.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Excellent quote.

[ardath_rekha]

Personally, I think Bush went after Saddam because he knew that, unlike Osama, he probably could run Saddam down...

...and you know that turkey he had in the photo-ops? It apparently was plastic. 'Nuff said...

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think Bush went after Saddam because he knew that, unlike Osama, he probably could run Saddam down...

That so bugs me. I know they're both bad guys, but I'd much rather have a leader who went after someone based on facts and evidence and failed than someone who goes after a guy based on lies and deceit and succeeded.

Catching Saddam is a good thing, but the whole situation is rotten.

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[pretty-bird.livejournal.com]

Anyone know the Canadian National Anthem?

Re: Osama Bin Who?

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

I do, but mostly because I watch hockey.

If you did know it, it would make more sense if you ever hear Mike Myers say, "I'll give you a topic: Canada is neither our home nor our native land. Discuss." (Problem is, he's Canadian, so odds are he'll never say that.)

[cmstephens.livejournal.com]

It might be a good idea to check Saddam's beard for him.
Somewhere in one of MSN's articles, it was mentioned that they had shaved his face...

[imperfect_tense]

*adores you*

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I notice more and more that my "politics" is a bit different from lots of folks on my friends list. I put that in quotes because I'm not really active or that passionate.

Is there such a thing as a liberal Conservative? A conservative Liberal?

At least we can get rid of Bush in 2004 (but I don't know if that'll happen, unfortunately). Canadians were stuck with Chretien for 10 years.

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[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

My big question is, what are they going to charge him with?

It's not that he's not an evil, genocidal fuck, who had people tortured, massacred and generally oppressed.

It's that most of what they can pin on him was at some point funded, supported and approved by the Regan Administration. And guess which Vice-President's son is going to be holding the charge sheet?

Gawd Bless the United States of America and the Iran-Iraq war.

Amen.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Was just about to make a post on this very subject.

Instead, here's a 24 hour comic by Neil Gaiman on the Roman Emperor Heliogabolus, who came to a similar end.