Another One Bites the Dust

Spectre

Spectre

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Saddam Hussein has gone down hard. Captured hiding in Tikrit. Maybe rebuilding Iraq will be a little easier now.

John
 
this morn, B4 it was confirmed. Woo Hoo! Milosevich will have some company at the tribunals...

Hope they pass pieces of him out to the Iraquis, they hadta put up with his crap fer far too long.

Keith
 
Screw the tribunals. Let the Iraqi's put him on trial. Their justice should be a lot swifter and final.
 
I believe John has the right idea but I think there are other advantages to it besides a swift conclusion about what to do with the monster. I am thinking that such a move will go a long way to convincing the Iraqis that the US truely intends to let them run their own country and make their own legal and political decisions and that the US does not intend to be a long-term occupying power.
I'm hoping that will save us a lot of grief in both the immediate future and the decades following.
 
And to Sarge; the 4th ID did us proud after all. It's still a shame you got stuck in the ocean when the ruckus got started, but no one can say the 4th didn't do their part. My hat is off to you and all our men and women in service today. :)
 
Id vote for an Iraqi islamic trial, but expect it will be a big TV showtrial, like a modern Nuremburg style, Either way hes "Dead man walking" Just a matter of time.

One big one down one big one to go.{A 6.4 Saudi}

The UKs waiting to be hit, The police reckon Christmas is a likley time.

I hope they are wrong I fear they may be right.

Spiral
 
"Let the Iraqis put him on trial"

Nope, I say hold a national lottery. Eligibility is that you have a mother, father, sister, brother that was tortured and killed by Saddam.

20 winning tickets holders are presented with brand new Louisville Sluggers and 5 minutes each in a room alone with Saddam. Cheap....effective. Pure justice without all the circus antics that will accompany his trial, no matter where it's held, or who conducts it.
 
crooked knife, while I meant what you wrote, what I actually said was a wee bit more bellicose: ie, "give him to the Iraquis". Not that rough talk will make fair disposition of him more probable.

Feet of clay,

John
:)
 
He should have been DOA. It would have saved us a lot of problems in the future.
If it does go to an open trial there will be a lot of secrets on all sides that will be opened for the worse.
It was not to long ago that we actively supported him against Iran with weapons, training , and intel. A lot of countries have dirty hands if it comes down to the money they have made during his tenure in power. The fact is we all knew what was happening to a large exent but rather overlooked much in our search for money and politics.
One day a friend then an enemy the next. It often comes down to context.
Overall its good that he has fallen but it would be better if he just died and went away.
 
Originally posted by china
He should have been DOA. It would have saved us a lot of problems in the future.
If it does go to an open trial there will be a lot of secrets on all sides that will be opened for the worse.
It was not to long ago that we actively supported him against Iran with weapons, training , and intel. A lot of countries have dirty hands if it comes down to the money they have made during his tenure in power. The fact is we all knew what was happening to a large exent but rather overlooked much in our search for money and politics.
One day a friend then an enemy the next. It often comes down to context.
Overall its good that he has fallen but it would be better if he just died and went away.
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Why shouldn't these secrets be revealed for the world to see? IMHO, that's the only benefit of trying the monsterous SOB. Everyone with dirty hands should pay.
 
My thinking is that we should get a cross- section of Native-American women* in service to visit what's her name ( the servicewoman who was captured and later freed ) for a week, and then later let them get together and discuss what to do to him for a week.

Then after two weeks of overdosing him with peyote, and wondering what was going to happen to him,let them at him for as long as they can keep him alive. I'd even loan them my John Primble castrasting knife.

* From Iroquoi to Mandan to Inuit to Paiute to Mescalero to Navaho to Commanches to Seminole to Cherokee ( inclusive of at least, but not limited to the aforenamed tribes )

Thoughts just keep on a-coming... must be the Shoshone rose in my avatar - or the Magyar in my blood.

Oh, heck! Let them use him for beadwork, seed beads at that.
 
From what I saw tonight on the news that is just what they want. They want him back in Iraq and put him in front of a public trial for war crimes and numerous other charges. Sound good to me. For my money they can let the Iraqis have him.:) :D
 
JMHO, but I think he should be hung by his privates, and then we turn loose the families of Iraqi's killed by his regime with bats, for a pinata (sp?) party. Beat on him til he falls down, hang him back up, and beat him some more.
 
I'm glad he was found, and I'm particularly glad the way and where he was found. Hiding in a hole in the ground with $750,000 with him.

He needed to be de-mystified to the population he dominated for so long. As a ghost who disappeared, many felt he might be able to return to power...however rational that may or may not be.

I am so happy no more troops were killed in his capture. It wrenches my heart each time another troop dies in this business.

Of course, it won't end with his capture, and the whole trial business of whatever nature will become an international circus, but maybe, just maybe...this is the beginning of the new start.

I thought he looked pathetic, terribly human, and certainly not the stuff of nightmares for any Iraqis. I'd like swift justice, but fear dragged-out sound bites for the politicians.

Most of all, I want our men and women back, safely, and honored for their service, and in OUR country to pursue their lives without targets on their uniforms. They have showed honor, dedication, and bravery. I wish I felt the same way about their political leaders.

God bless us, everyone.
 
Very nicely made points Kismet.

I've got a great-nephew with the 82nd over there. I'm freshening up a BirGorkha Bura 12" Sirupati and bunch of spices to send when he gets an address back to us.

I agree, first thing I want is him back safe and sound.

Whatever spirit is up there can and will surpass anything I can think up for Sodom.
 
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