Sadams Capture is the best thing that could have hapened!

The more I think about this the more excited I become.

Had they killed him bush would be free to keep spreading his propaganda to the world. Sadam was an evil dictator hell bent on attacking the united states with his arsenal of WMD and nuclear warheads that he was hell bent on hiding from the US!

The reality is that that sadamn was a brutal dictator but he had no WMD and no nuclear weapons. The reality is that Sadamn opened up Iraq to unfetered access for the inspectors including inviting in the CIA to do its best to find anything.

Sadam will now be given the world stage to speek of bushes war and all of the lies that made it hapen. He will be free to say that he was given all of the WMD that he was suyposedly harboring by the US in an atempt to use him to fight Iran for the US. He will be free to say that all of it was destroyed and that despite the fact that inspectors were on the ground being given full cooperation to verify Iraqs compliance with the UN resolutions, Bush invaded a soveriegn nation with absolutely no justification for doing so.

Lots of doom and gloom here on DU today. I find the lack of thought and willingness to lay down and die disgusting. We are facing the most destructive president in american history and many "dems" here are willing to concede that thats all ok because Sadam was caught. Take the damn TuTu off allready Stand up for what is right! See this capture for what it is Quite possibly the worst thing that could have ever hapened to bush.

Sadam will not be providing any proof of WMD for bush to tout he will be doing the oposite. He will not be saying I did my evil deeds of my own accord he will describe how american administrations encouraged a revolt inside his country that had to be put down with the result of many lives lost. the list will go on. This guy has more dirt on amnerican foriegn policy than quite possibly any other person on the planet. The worst thing that could ever have hapened for bush is for this man to be caught alive. All of Bushes lies will now be brought right back to the forefront as soon as this man starts to speek.

Sure we will have a few days of cheering and increased support for bush in the polls followed by an incredibly embarasing trial of Sadam hussein. My bet is bush tries to control the trial in fact possibly pushing for a military tribunal in order to keep all of sadams statements a secret. Something that will further erode his standing in the world comunity.

So stop the pity party. This will end up being the worst day in bushes life. He will be exposed for the lying piece of shit he is in front of the whole world because of this.

Things are looking up for america and the Iraqi people today!

That sure did the trick for Poppa Bush in 92, didn't it?

Just like the fall of Saddam's statue, this will only give Bush a temporary popularity boosts.

Watch--Bush will overdo it and annoy still more people

The world is a better place without Saddam as the leader of anything, and I’m happy for the Iraqis who had to live under his regime.

For the America, Saddam is small potatoes.

When does the leader of the group that killed 3,000+ Americans get captured.

Of the 22 most wanted terrorist on the FBI list, only 1 has been captured. http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/fugitives.htm

I see the war Iraq being a diversion from our real war with the group that attacked us, Al Qaeda.

explain why this was worth even one American life...

It is/was an obvious attempt to control the worlds energy suplies nothing more nothing less. The capture of Sadam takes away the only reason the administration had left to cling to as a reason for invading and ocupying Iraq.

Whatever rise Bush might get could be short lived.

"It's the economy stupid"

Still, without WMD, this war was a failure. Over 200 billion dollars, 456 American lives, 10,000 Iraqis all for one man, still our main premise for war, WMD has not been found! Total failure!

My guess is that they'll either run a faux trial in Iraq and sentence him to a quick death (after forcing him to admit he "gassed his own people" and ran "rape rooms"), or they'll just keep him in eternal silence at Gitmo. You're probably right that his capture isn't all bad news for our side, but I doubt we'll see an open, international trial.

Tribunal did he not?

He will have to back away fropm this prety quickly or else it will be on display for everyone to see.

One can certainly claim that. I certainly wouldn't read that statement as meaning an independent tribunal

Hussein's going to sing about how Reagan and Poppy made him what he is today.
And, since the eyes of the world are going to be turned onto the trial, nobody -- not the Bush Crime Family nor ABCNNBCBS nor Faux nor BSRNC nor any of the American Media Hooers are going to be able to keep a lid on it.
Bush I's the biggest loser. But all the guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney are in for it, too. They needed Hussein dead. And he isn't dead.
John
This is going to be good.

I agree that this is a positive thing.

I am guessing that this was an accidental capture OR that Saddam was actually in the hands of Bush operatives and this capture was NOT meant to happen like this.

As usual - our troops and intelligence officers outsmarted Bushfeldheney. They got Saddam who appeared to me to be drugged and disoriented. They probably had him in that hole for months and probably brainwashed to vindicate the Bushes et al.

We shall see.

This may blow up in Bushfeldheney's faces

why the Iraqis still don't love us. How many times have I heard that "the Iraqis are afraid to show support for the US because of fear of Saddam's return"? The Iraqis will continue to fight us and Shrub and Rummy will have to make up some new spin why we are not the beloved liberatorrs.
BTW, still not seeing the masses celebrating in the streets. Looks like the Chalabi gang has been brought in once again to do the celebrating.

sadam's capture doesn't change anything ..just like the killing of his son's didn't.

Let's get our troops the F**k home and out of harms' way.
If * doesn't announce an exit strategy and a definite date, critics will know it's really always been about the oil.

* is between a rock and a hard place, despite the momentary bump he's going to get from the Knuckle-draggers.


:hippie:

You guys who think this issue is goining to bring Bush down are just dreaming. The following believed that Iraq had WMDs before the war:
Pres Clinton (as per Larry King live), Al Gore, Germany, France,
Britain, United Nations, Sen Dashle, Sen Kennedy and many other Dem
Senators. Just forget it.

not even close.

Its all in my script:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=905738

;)

Please continue the discussion here:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=904501


Thank you for your patience and your understanding.


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