I hate NBC news too

So I make the mistake of watching more news. The very first thing they talk about in the opening "why Saddam is a bad bad man" intro - that Saddam had lived an oppulent lifestyle. Uh...excuse me...and the heads of Halliburton don't? Our own pretzeldent doesn't? Argh.

And they finally mentioned that it was an Iraqi informant who told the military where Saddam was. So can we please stop talking about how we "found" Saddam.

That is if BushCo holds true to its $25,000,000 promise.

and that the person who gave them the info may not get it because he's subject to prosecution as well. How very handy for the government.

Our government is just as disgusting.

Maybe the people hiding Osama are witnessing all this on their TV and are thinking "Glad I'm loyal and I'm glad I didn't believe those lying two-faced scumbags."

What could the informant be prosecuted for, anyway?!

I heard it reported on CNN. They said it was our own investigating that found Hussein. They said there will be no reward given to anyone.

and there's always an informant involved.

Saddam is a bad man - true
Saddam lived an opulent lifestyle - true
An informant told us where he was, then we found him - true

Looks like you are digging deep to find things to be pissed off about.

our whore media puts it all right out there upfront. There's no serious analysis of this situation being conducted today at all. Just rah rah rah for the administration.

They're going for maximum drama. Just this morning, I heard Wolf Blitzer on CNN emphasize the fact that Saddam was found in a hole, where there were nests of "rats" (with particular emphasis on the word "rats") living alongside him. This is no longer reporting. It's theater. It's poetry. It's anything but matter-of-fact news reporting.

The media is filthy and I'm amazed at how many people think US forces captured him on their own. :eyes:

Because he tortured and killed people AND lived in those opulant palaces bought with the sweat, blood and pain of the Iraqis.
Gee. Thought everbody here was prolatariet. All noble and for the Light.
Seems to be a lot of folks lamenting the capture of a monster.

No one is more glad than Saddam is out of power in Iraq. In fact I was anti-Saddam before a whole lot of people in this country were, most notably members of the current administration who were helping to arm him back in the 80s.

My issue with the statement about his opulent lifestyle stems from all the news these last weeks on how Halliburton is fleecing the US taxpayers to subsidize their executives' opulent lifestyles. George Bush and his entire administration has been one big smash and grab robbery to steal money from the US taxpayers and give it to his already wealthy friends. Our administration has nothing even resembling the moral high-ground here.

They get their wealth though the blood, sweat, and pain of US and foreign citizens (sweatshops, et cetera).

They lie and cheat and do what they can to pay less to American workers while raising prices so they can improve their bottom line.

Especially for big business and insurance entities, if there's a disaster, they never pay for it out of their own savings. They ramp up the prices and WE consumers pay for it.

They don't give a frick about workers. Once your usefulness is done with, you're out the door. You're a drone to them, nothing more.

They won't hire qualified people if they have bad credit or had been in prison.

They give workers more and more to do, expecting everything to be completed on time.

I could get fired if I got arrested for ANYTHING, so obviously I won't be going to demonstrations any time soon.

Yet they want us to be totally loyal to them.

The world is full of monsters, just of varying degree. Capturing one won't make a hill of beans of difference.

He was a murdering bastard back when Rummy was shaking his hand, too. Many people tried to point that out back then, but it wasn't considered polite and proper.

....while millions of Americans are homeless, millions more go to bed hungry, and millions don't have access to basic health care?

But that is the very first thing you will hear about when we want to villify another country's leader is that the President of Zamzabinistan lived in decadent luxury while millions are hungry, sick, homeless.

It's kind of sad.