do you feel safer today than you did yesterday?

So capturing him makes me no safer. However, if Bush* can now declare victory and bring the troops home, perhaps we can eventually feel a bit safer.

this may bring the issue of international law and hopefully the International Criminal Court into the spotlight. That would be good for everyone.

"Maybe I ought to get a lawyer"

but I don't see how the issue of his trial etc. will not in some ways bring international law and justice into some discussion.

Hopefully this not just wishful thinking.
As a rule bringing something at least a little further into the daylight is a positive thing.
One thing I fear is that the 'interogation' will be devoid of international observers. He may have some 'goods' on Rummy and pals stashed somewhere. I am afraid that they could find this through their questioning and it would dissappear. Can the UN demand to have an observer there? They weren't at Gitmo.

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Happier!

Happy for the troops.

Happy for the Iraqi people!!

:)

Saddam's capture is merely a sideshow, and trotting it out now is just so much fodder for the sheeple, as in, "Oh, happy day, Saddam's been captured! Oh joy, oh joy, this whole Iraq thing was all worth while!"

Saddam is a cockroach, and a human-rights nightmare, and death is too good for him. But his capture doesn't change a thing in Iraq or the Middle East. The shooting will not stop, the death of American GIs will not stop. OBL is still at large, and al Qaeda knows no country, no boundary. Iraqis do not want Westerners in their country, and our presence is an abomination to the Muslim world. Our presence in the ME makes more lifetime enemies by the minute.

The U.S. has sunk billions of dollars into the Iraq enterprise, and the war contractors are profiting right on schedule. I have serious doubts as to our "altrustic" reasons for being in Iraq, particularly since it has the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. We went there supposedly because a lunatic had his finger on nukes or other WMDs -- well, so far, nothing of the kind has been found. And the lunatic was picked up like some stray animal, with not so much as a shot fired.

Saddam may have been captured, but the situation is pretty far from being worthy of celebration.

Sadaam had a pistol of mass destruction, dontcha know.

After all, through negligence, incompetence, or complicity, he allowed foreign nationals to kill 3,000 Americans on 9/11. I don't know what the exact stats are on the rise in the numbers of terrorist bombings and human deaths and mutilations caused by military action are since * stole office, but I am willing to bet that these stats are astoundingly high.

* has been far more dangerous to the well being of the American people than Saddam ever was.

Do I feel safer now that Saddam is captured? Hey, pal, can you spare a buck for a cup of coffee?