I was making a sandwich. What were you doing when you heard Saddam

may have been captured?

and smoking, but if I'm up I'm smoking.

Likewise. For the past year plus, I've been regarding DU as a Distant Early Warning for important events ("The sun never sets on DU").

Our Chicken-Hawk in Chief will be in Full Gloat over this, and will probably spend HOURS before the mirror, practicing his Victory Strut. But with a $25M reward and a massive high-tech posse, every day past that May 1st Photo-Op represents a few points off his score. And at home in Tikrit, all during that intensive search. Bush may have turned a two bit thug into an El Cid style legend.

Three questions:
Will our GIs be able to put their body armor away, and walk through the crowds like conquering heroes?
Will Saddam be tried at the World Court like Milosovec, or will he end up in a closed court in an Undisclosed Location?
What sort of S & M style costume will Bush wear at the News Conference today?

n/t

before going to bed but now i cant

I had a bit of a neck-ache from sleeping funny.

Asleep

n/t

And then I turned on CNN...

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BigMommaLove called me from work with the news.

for my students at school. :P aren't I a sweetie? O8)

...doing things that would get this post deleted and possibly get the thread locked.

Tucker

Groggily walking around the house, holding my cat, who insists on a morning tour with a stop at each window.


Cher

While I was playing some guy came on there 'Saddam was caught.' I thought he was joking so I said 'No he is in my basement', and suddenly freepers invaded praising GW, talking about if they were the soldiers they would've shot him. One guy said 'We can all sleep better at night knowing he's been captured.'

Read about it on google news about the same time it came on c-span.
BFD.

Am now listening to coverage on NPR. The local newspaper doesn't have the story.

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Buh-bye...:hi:

for the third time and hearing something about a "spider hole."

woke up and saw his beard out of one eye, sat there groaning for a couple of minutes until consciousness finally came back.

Willis? Mr D doesn't love us any more.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch's into my shop's back room when I heard it on the radio.

First on DU, then I went on to the BBC to confirm it was the case. :-)

Heard it on WNYC. Now I have 2 radios and the TV on and I'm going to be late for work.

:dem:

i'm not sure when the news broke
but i didn't turn on the radio until 6:30 est.

Sleeping soundly until my fiancee woke me up and told me.

DH woke me up to tell me, I replied "bullshit" and rolled over, then he dragged me out to the living room to see on the TV, whereupon I immediately went to the computer to check it out on DU and have been mesmerized since then.

Seriously, my TV was on while I was sleeping so I heard subconciously...

and I woke up at around 8 to actually hear it.

I read the blurb and then came to DU to see if it was true.

got on to MSN and there it was, I was like oh my fucking god.

and turned on the tube to try to catch the weather. Got a bit more news than that.

Hope the Iraqi people find justice.

I did not want this war.

But it does not mean that I will weep for that bastard.

I woke up at 5 am, way too early (not supposed to get up until around 8. Turned on the radio and their it was, about 7 or so, I think. I was dosing. They broke in right after "Tech Nation" with the BBC to annouce that Saddam may have been caught.

Confirmed it with Weekend Edition on NPR at 8 am. Going off to read The Beeb now.

edit: He looks like the Unabomber: Eek!

My husband brought me some coffee and told me that they'd captured Saddam.

But then, he didn't know that I'd been up until 5:00 AM. Please, it was just after 7:00 when he called! I'm going back to bed.

fell asleep watching SNL, again, thought it was another sketch until I looked at the clock.


Some idiot commentator on NBC said his capture would justify the deaths of all U.S. soldiers.......I hate to be pissed off first thing in the a.m. :wtf:

I don't do TV news. And we have an incredible windstorm going on out there; when I stepped out to pick up the morning paper, it was flying across the desert, one page at a time. I believe my helpful dog removed the plastic wrapper.

I'm not surprised. I've always thought we had him somewhere, or knew where he was, to be trotted out when it looked like * was in trouble. We'll get Osama when the general election gets into full swing.

Oops...does that qualify me for :tinfoilhat: ?

btw, dumb move by bush. This will all be forgotten by election time.

my sister called and woke me up

and my mom told me.

Laz, who was still up and playing on the 'net, woke me up with the news, I mumbled agreement with his points, and went back to sleep to continue my rather lucid dream of being a lost kid in some sort of travelling outcast musician's group in a hostile, post-amagedden factory world. (This has been an exhausting weekend, and I'm out of meds...)
I'm more able to pay attention and make cogent conversation now that I'm really - but now he's asleep!

Haele

Roll out of bed, turn on coffeemaker, log onto New York Times website, dress while reading news.

Not only do you get the newest news about 3 nanoseconds after it happens, you get to read all the wonderful comments.

I got up at 8 and let the dogs out and then back in, surveyed the ice and snow and went back to bed. I got up again at 10 and made coffee and sat down at the computer and went to msnbc and saw it. Not sure what to think.

I was sleeping when my mom came in and said "Saddam has been captured".

...when some other members of the congregation started discussing it among themselves.

Here's the :puke: part: the parish has always been a rather progressive place. However, our priest left to move to England with his partner a month ago, so we've been relying on temporary clergy (usually retired ones willing to sub for a week). Anyway, this week we got an elderly priest who, although quite nice on a personal level, was far more conservative (apparently, he used to be Rector of a parish in Virginia next to a military base). Anyway, he decides to cut short his sermon to talk about the "momentous" event of Saddam's capture. He then invites the congregation to "share their thoughts" about this glorious day. He starts asking members of the congregation to volunteer "their hopes" for all the good things that will come to Iraq. In the manner of a schoolteacher quizzing students who don't know the material they're supposed to regurgitate, he haltingly draws out answers from some of the members like "freedom," "peace," "prosperity," "justice" -- yep, all those things that are bound to happen there now that Saddam is behind bars!

:eyes:

To me, what was most annoying about this was not the injection of White House party-line politics into the Eucharist, nor the fact that it was done in a way that suggested a cross between an elementary school indoctrination session and a soft-sell sales pitch, but the sheer naivité of the whole enterprise -- the feeling that he really, sincerely believed the Administration propaganda (against all available evidence), and couldn't even conceive of the possibility that anyone else could see it differently.

At any rate, in an attempt to bring a little realism to the proceedings, I volunteered that my "hope" was that Saddam winds up sharing a cell with Manuel Noriega, since they have so much in common: U.S.-favored strongmen whose crimes we ignored (or even encouraged) while they were doing our bidding, but when each of them decided not to toe the line sufficiently, we suddenly discovered that "Omigod! It turns out he's a tyrant!"

From the look on his face, I don't think the priest got it...

My brother called me to tell

and talking to friends.