Saddam: Captured
 

If you haven't heard, they finally found him and he's alive too.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ea/iraq_saddam

I guess that increases Bush's chances to get re-elected...
Anyway, it's a good thing that they finally got that jerk. Who knows what he was planning.

Yeah, I'm sure of it. :|

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Well, it's about time. Thirteen years after U.S. forces should have brought him down, they finally did the deed.

Nothing like being fashionably late. :P

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said at a news conference in Baghdad. "The tyrant is a prisoner."

what are they gonna do to him? torture him 'till he kills himself? or just kill him?

He'll probably end up before an international war crimes tribunal ala Nuremburg, get convicted, and be sentenced to death.

Yeah, that's What I think is going to happen. I haven't heard much about it (I was watching CNN a few minutes ago, but I wasn't able to catch the what will happen to him discussion) But as far as I know, He'll be tried for his crimes against the Iraqi people.

But I guess it's a great day for the Iraqi people. No longer having to worry about following Saddam's lead, they have a chance of a great future.

This is great news! I heard about this an hour or so ago.

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Just heard the news....wow. :o

Yeah, I don't wanna be in his shoes when trial time comes around... :dead:

I wonder who will get the reward for finding him. I heard like 400 soldiers were on the mission when they found him.

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Saddam will be held in trial for War Crimes and Genocide. He wont be tortured, just heavily interogated, also, no one will recive the reward. Latest news....

-Errol

When one Bush failed, another triumped! I can see it now... I am in disgust. It is a common trait to go to war right around reelection time, and it gross. Regardless of the fact that Sadaam was "caputured", I will not vote for Bush.

Ryan

Just caught the news, too. Plus a friend of mine on AIM comes up saying in capital letters WE GOT SADDAM!. Interesting enough we were just talking about him in CCD class today.

They had said that Iraq wanted to hold him in trial, but the US wanted to hold him in their trial, or something. But if he ends up in Iraq on trial, he's liable to scare those people back into voting not guilty or some ****, and getting him back into power and the end result would be the bombing of the US. But that's just a thought.

I might hate Bush and his way of running America into the ground, but I supported the war in Iraq, it was great watching 'em blow away the empire of this sickening madman.

You got yours Saddam, Desert Strike games have become a reality, now we're going after Bin Laden.

Sadly, this little capture has almost GURANTEED that Bush will win the next election.

i always expected the US Forces to capture Saddam right before the elections are held.

well anyway there's still Osama Bin Laden...

Wow....talk about history in the making.


This talk about Bush only doing this to get re-elected disgusts me. You think the troops just said, "Okay, we found him, but we got a YEAR until the re-election. Who wants to play cards?" Hell no! They want to get the job done!
What bush has done will saved thousands of lives that would have died under Saddam's rule. Go and read sometime what this man has done. I'm sure you would just love to be thrown into a vat of acid and left to die. :evil:
Yes, we have undergone many American casualties, but now our armies and such will be able to come HOME. We will not have to worry about another Saddam Hussein war, the threats of bilogical warfare with Iraq is pretty much dead...

If this war Was in fact a thing to get re-elected (which it wasnt), he took one hell of a risk. What if we hadnt caught Anyone? what if Saddam hadnt been pulled from power? What if the US and all these other countries gotten more adamant in their disagreements and started an attack towards us?
Worst case scenario. Bush could have Started World War Three. Bush would NOT want that. No one would. This talk about him Wanting to start a war just because of votes is reviling.


Give our president some credit. He did what his father and the oh so glorious Clinton could not. Sp please, quit bashing our president...

*remember those who died in Desert Storm. The first and second Gulf Wars. This is why we fight. We have done them a great duty. They did not die in Vain*

I didn'z say that the War itself was his election-propaganda. i said that the not-caüturing of the "king-terrorists" was propaganda. i mean tapes of Osama Bin Laden just don't lie around in some random houses, and a defenseless terrorist in a occupied country simply cannot dissappear without any trace.

The war was because of the oil in Iraq and nothing else. and Bush wasn't the one who pulled the strings, there are men behind them who are waay more important than Bush.

I expect George W. to get Osama Bin Laden around May or so.

You know those gag books you find in the bookstore entitled "Sex After 50", or whatever, and they're full of nothing but blank pages? After reading what you just said right there, I thought of another one to put into that series: "A Complete List Of Things George W. Has Done For the U.S. That WEREN'T For the Sole Purpose of Boosting his Super-Bloated Ego and Also in the Interest of More Than Just Power-Hungry Conervatives Like Himself Who Think the Only Right Way is the American Way". Sheesh...

For the sake of every other mind-in-the-stone-age Bush worshipper on here, I'll stop the flaming, but only because I don't see how it will have an effect since every conservative I've ever known is a complete and utter bigot.

Suuuuuuuuuuure, wait until he's re-elected, he'll start it one way or another.

I won't continue with bashing blind Pro-Bush activists, they will regain their eyesight one day, when a REAL President is elected, not one simply due to election sabatauge to further pro-war dictator scum like Bush.

LOL

That's rich, REALLY rich, credit for killing a lot of people? Pfft, where is the humanitarian merit in that?

you could as well give saddam some credit. would almost be the same thing...

Saddam was the villian, America's supposed to be the good guys, find a way other than guns, I knew that would'nt hapopen, and I hated Saddam more than Bush.

I might support the war, but I sure as heck never liked that Bush resorted to butchery

well Saddam had to go, but not under these circumstances.

Right now there talking about on tv how we went into Iraq for no apparant reason. Personally I agree with that.

there were a gazillion reasons but they were all fake.

"Saddam's got bio-weapons" then the UN went in and looked for those weapons, and didn't find anything. Even when the US claimed that they had proof of a mobile Bio weapon-lab (of course, why not making it a spacecraft?)

then
"Saddam's got an A-Bomb" well the UN didn't look for an A-Bomb, they looked for Bio-Weapons. Somebody said those UN-Guys should check the US but everybody laughed at him/them.

then
"Free the Iraqi population" That would be nice, but everyone who believed that was IMO a complete idiot.

Or you could rent some Three Stooges Tapes.

Face it, the guy isn't to bright. It may or may not be true that he waved to Stevie Wonder, but still, he's a few fries short of a King size.

Yeah, it's great that he got Saddam, but still, don't you think it's a bit convinient?

I'm not here to ostrisize the guy, but it seems odd...

well in my ipion. I am very happy that is is capered. But I don't think the "Bad " Poeple are going to stop now that he is captured.

That is extremely insulting. You're only resorting to stereotypical bull. I am no Liberal, Conservative, Nor Democrat or Republican. The only thing I am doing is trying to get past all the ridiculous assumptions.


This thread is becoming rather pointless. We've gone from talking about the capture of an insane dictator, and now its only become a soapbox for people to accuse Bush of being the same as Saddam.


YOu go and tell that to the people who no longer have to fear being a statistic of Saddamn's genocides.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

For the record, I'm glad Saddam is captured, but I am totally against the war in Iraq, and Bush in general. The way I see it, Bush was just trying to finish what his father started in Iraq.

I heard, and I was right that one day Usama will be found and Saddam's legacy will come to an end. i'm glad that one of the most wanted men are found.

I picture this will be one of the biggiest events of 2003.

And picture myself talking about that day 30 years from now to the sibblings that would like to know the full story.

I have nothing against Bush, I was rooting for him back in 2000.

It's either him for president or Al gore. But someone has to run for office.

and again glad to see some brighter things.

Yes, Bush IS extremly insulting to America.

And you're resorting to blind faifth in a President who can't spell "great" without watching Sesame Street first.

And kiss the President's ass repetivly?

Which he is

Damn right, because those people can't see past their own ass-kissing of Bush to realise the real danger..

Okay, now youre just attacking ME now....

I kiss NO Ass, got it? I'm entitled to my opinion. If it isnt the same as yours, deal with it.

I smell a rucus..... RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE! FLY LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A BEE!

Hi read or dont read...just my useless two cents and any or all comments about my parentage, my education or lack thereof, or general snottiness will be ignored because I'm just that kind of person. That being said..ahem.

Has Bush's presidency been stellar? Well...no of course not. We're in the middle of a war on several fronts and teetering on war on several others.
The economy has been in recession for most of his term. And I'm sure any political science majors out there could say several other things that have sucked about the last three years...

HOWEVER...
I am not some lalala..let peace prevail...ignore the bad guys and they ignore you..no fighting at all costs pacifist. I'm a martial artist. That kind of attitude does not fit my MO. SO...was war justified? Well..if the atrocities of the Bathe part regime are true than yeh. I mean how many people NOW say the world was wrong for letting Hitler try his version of genocide? I personally dont care about Bush's motives. I seriously doubt they were as altruistic as he claims. But Saddam isnt there anymore. The regime is gone. Victory.

As for the economy...I'm enough of a business person to know that the last three years COULD have been the result of the previous four. Recession usually takes time to build. DOesnt happen...BAM all at once. And well...9/11 didnt help either. Anyone thinking that what happened would not seriously affect our enconoy is living in fantasy world. Either that...or they're looking for someone to blame. The president is an easy target.
Thats it..off to RP now..

it is about time that we captured him. I was awaken this morning with a phone call from my mom to tell me that.

Even though the motivations for the war certainly weren't helping Iraqi people, US army did end Saddam's tyranny. It's a good thing they captured Saddam, as long as he is convicted in an International court unlike the Al Qaeda people in Guantanamo.

Despite of what people think on Bush, blaming the war on him isn't right. There are lot's of powerfull people who have wanted to do that for a while now, it was just a matter of time.

Off-Topic:
Rezornite, I thought you were leaving?


On-Topic:
I'm glad you guys captured Saddam. Just 1 more and we're home free! :P

You do realize, that normally there is more than one reason for starting wars, and that one man's selfish gain could also go hand in hand with the benefit of the country he's been appointed to run?

I'm no Bush supporter, but I don't think he's pure evil. He's more like a diet soda, I guess...99% good free.

WOO, PAR-TAY!!!!!!! :tpizza: :tpizza:

Believe me, if Gore were in office, this would never happen. I couldn't see the nine bozos (trying to oust Bush next year) do the same thing...they're all weak on military. Big thanks to the coalition.

Really a big story about nothing though. It's a nice short term grab, but may actually cause more problems in the long run. Esp. since him being alive will create many, many legal issues and our handling of it could bring even more problems with the world if we don't treat him well.

Doesn't really help the bigger issues, so I'm hoping we get over it and move on to the real issues. Must have been awesome for those Iraqis that found him though. Certainly a bit of a morale booster for the troops since this war hasn't been great for showing off our supposedly wonderful military. We finally, as a whole, showed that we are mildly competent at something...so it is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek pat on the back. LOL

Unfortunately it looks like Bush may have stole the next election also. :(