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The Capture of Saddam Hussein Was Staged
The Washington Dispatch ^ | December 18, 2003 | Frank Salvato

Posted on 12/18/2003 7:35:00 AM PST by The Rant

"I've been surprised [Bush] waited, but then I thought, well, politically, it probably doesn't make much sense to find [Saddam Hussein] just yet." Those were the words of Washington State Congressman Jim McDermott during a recent interview with KIRO radio in Seattle. He implied President Bush would have preferred to have waited until closer to the election to capture Saddam Hussein in an effort to “score more political points with voters.” He continued by saying, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing." Thus is the mentality of the liberal left in the United States of America.

This comes from a man nicknamed "Baghdad Jim." He was awarded this moniker because of remarks he made last year. One had President Bush “misleading the American people" on the issue of Iraq. He was heavily criticized for that statement and even drew denigration from some in his own party. And while on a trip to Baghdad before hostilities started he stated that Saddam Hussein was trustworthy. Saddam Hussein? Trustworthy? How did this guy get elected?

The hate that has been instilled within the liberal left of this country; courtesy of the McAuliffe/Clinton regime is so far beyond the realm of acceptability it is maddening. Was it wrong to feel shorted after the 2000 election if you were a Gore/Lieberman supporter? Absolutely not. It was a close race and their candidate lost. It wouldn’t have been normal for them not to feel cheated. It was the same way I felt when an inferior candidate in the man of Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush, a man with a considerably more impressive resume. But until the moment when Clinton lied under oath I was willing to accept him as the president of the United States. Make no mistake, my disdain for Bill Clinton had nothing to do with him abusing his underlings sexually, it had everything to do with him breaking the law and violating his oath to uphold the US Constitution, two things he did when he perjured himself. He paid the price for it through his impeachment, thanks to those like US Rep. Henry Hyde who heeded the duties of his office. After that the respect I held for the man was replaced by a symbolic respect for the office of the presidency. But never did I possess the hatred in my heart for Bill Clinton that people like McDermott hold for George W. Bush today. And all this hatred coming from the “tolerant left.”

It needs to be pointed out that the win-at-all-costs tactics of Terry McAuliffe and his spin-minions nurtures the nucleolus of this infection. Guilty by association and by enabling them are those who placed him in the position he now holds, Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is their creation and just like Frankenstein when being chased by the frightened towns people, he is running amok. His win-at-all-cost arrogance is the platform and his chief tactic this time around is fostering the evil of hatred, hatred for another human being. Again, make no mistake; the hatred has moved on from being simply aimed at the policies of an administration, it is now targeting George W. Bush the man, husband and father. It is sickening.

In a way, should the unthinkable happen and Howard Dean win the presidency of the United States, I think I would be able to see a glimpse of sunshine during an otherwise category 5 hurricane and that glimpse of sunshine would be the demise of Terry McAuliffe and the Clinton DNC machine. Should the absurd happen I would hunker down inside my own political spider hole for four years solaced and nourished by the idea that McAuliffe’s days were through.

As for Jim McDermott, perhaps Washington State’s GOP Chairman Chris Vance said it best when he said, "Calling on [McDermott] to apologize is useless, but I call on other Democrats to let the public know if they agree with McDermott -- and Howard Dean, who recently said he thought it was possible that President Bush had advance knowledge about 9/11. The voters deserve to know if the entire Democratic Party believes in these sorts of bitter, paranoid conspiracy theories." Mr. McAuliffe? A comment sir?

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Frank Salvato is a political media consultant, a freelance writer from the Midwest and the Managing Editor for TheRant.us. He is a contributing writer to The Washington Dispatch, and various other sites. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.


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To: witnesstothefall
That's a recklessly generous revisionist treatment. Amen. And the only reason the race was close was EVERY TV network falsly claiming Gore had won Florida. This early call was devastating news for Bush supporters, and thrilling news for Gore supporters. Hundreds of thousands had not yet voted in highly Republican Florida panhandle counties. Millions had not yet voted nationwide. This HAD TO energize democrat voters. This HAD TO demoralize Republicans. When I saw the "Gore wins Florida" announcement, I cursed out loud, said "Gore is our new president", and went to bed. How many Republicans decided not to vote, beleiving Bush had already lost? How many democrats rushed to the polls to pile-on for the apparent victor?
41 posted on 12/18/2003 8:14:21 AM PST by bobsatwork
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To: The Rant
So was the moon landing staged. That was a movie set out in Arizona. What did Richard Nixon do with all that money?
I think is being used to finance the planes that are globally spraying the stratosphere.
42 posted on 12/18/2003 8:16:52 AM PST by oyez (Incredible!)
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To: BlueLancer
Sounds good to me.
43 posted on 12/18/2003 8:18:21 AM PST by Tired_of_the_Lies
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To: TomGuy
You have it all wrong!

George Bush has Osama waiting in one of those black secret space ships that make no noise. (The ones that hover around the state of Nevada, developed from the technology that the Gubbermint stole from those aliens that crashed at Roswell, NM)

We all know that when the time is right, Osama will be "captured". BUT we know the real truth!

Excuse me, my tinfoil hat is a bit wrinkled so the signals I am getting are slightly fuzzy.

44 posted on 12/18/2003 8:21:23 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Libertarians are LOOOOOOSERS!)
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To: The Rant
What McDermott is really doing is expressing the Democrat leadership's contempt for the intelligence of the American people. This contempt, in turn, is born of their real constituency's delusional worldview. They see the popularity of paranoid conspiracy theories among leading media figures (Brian Gumbel, Richard Belzer, etc.) and the great influence these theories have in the Arab world and Europe. That is all it takes for them to assume that the American masses will follow suit, since the pseudo-intelligentsia's inflated self-image is based partly on the belief that Americans are media conformist cattle and cannot possibly be more sophisticated than Europeans. I think they are in for a surprise. Some have predicted for decades that the Left's own illusions would be their downfall. We now see this process accelerating toward a conclusion.
45 posted on 12/18/2003 8:21:38 AM PST by atomic conspiracy ( Anti-war movement: road-kill on the highway to freedom.)
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To: Eva
The country is ripe for big time rumors now we have the Internet. Anybody can cut and paste up a presentable web site and viola. Of course Free Republicans are loathe to spread any unfounded stories.
46 posted on 12/18/2003 8:22:33 AM PST by oyez (Incredible!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
That pie-hole got ~70% of the vote for his re-election last time around. And that was after his trip to Baghdad. What does that tell you about his Seattle constituents.

Here's the best way to encourage 'Baghdad Jim' to contol the sewer main exiting from his face... Nethercutt For Senate


47 posted on 12/18/2003 8:23:07 AM PST by Mr.Atos
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To: The Rant
The war in Iraq is a quagmire.
Saddam still hasn't been captured.
The stock market is a disaster.
Bush's tax cuts will ruin the economy.
There are no new jobs.

The left is running out of talking points that have even a distant relationship to the truth. They are left with the old standby "Bush is a moron" or "Bush is a liar" but neither one is finding much of an audience in mainstream America. If Ralph Nader runs on the Green Party line, Bush might pitch a 50 state shutout.

48 posted on 12/18/2003 8:23:30 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: oyez

Viola!

49 posted on 12/18/2003 8:28:11 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: smith288
Before Saddam's capture: "We can't find Saddam! We have to internationalize the situation in Iraq!

After Saddam's capture: "Now that we found Saddam, this is an excellent opportunity to internationalize the situation in Iraq!

50 posted on 12/18/2003 8:28:36 AM PST by PMCarey
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
That, too! Ha-ha!
51 posted on 12/18/2003 8:32:58 AM PST by oyez (Incredible!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The war in Iraq is a quagmire.
Saddam still hasn't been captured.
The stock market is a disaster.
Bush's tax cuts will ruin the economy.
There are no new jobs.

Maybe they can go back to the late term abortion issue.
Nah. There's no outrage. Voters don't mind.

Maybe gay marraige.
Nah. That ones a vote killer.

What's left? Womans rights?
Nah. Men would vote like never before. We'd even get the Black male vote on that one. They've had just about all they can handle, too.

Enviroment?
Nope. Too many land grabs and dictating. PETA has gone totally over the edge. ALF and ELF helped kill those issues.

I don't know. I think the left is in trouble. Not that I mind.

52 posted on 12/18/2003 8:35:12 AM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: The Rant
Just as the cat suspected! It was staged on the same secret Hollywood stage where the moon landing had been staged before and before that the Zapruder film, with Rich Little impersonating Saddam! There!
53 posted on 12/18/2003 8:38:26 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Merry Shopping Season and a Happy Pre-Christmas Storewide Sales Event!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"If Ralph Nader runs on the Green Party line, Bush might pitch a 50 state shutout."

YES! Let's get busy and print up some posters for distribution in boutiques, head-shops, and franchise coffee houses from coast to coast: "Progressives! Vote Green! Nader/Kaczynski '04"

54 posted on 12/18/2003 8:39:21 AM PST by atomic conspiracy ( Anti-war movement: road-kill on the highway to freedom.)
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To: The Rant
"nucleolus"

Do some of these writers search the dictionary for the most obscure word they can find and then write an article around it?

55 posted on 12/18/2003 8:40:49 AM PST by Snardius
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To: atomic conspiracy
YES! Let's get busy and print up some posters for distribution in boutiques, head-shops, and franchise coffee houses from coast to coast: "Progressives! Vote Green! Nader/Kaczynski '04"

If he doesn't run, we could start a write in campain. LOL.

(I think that's what the wicked witch of DC is up to.)

56 posted on 12/18/2003 8:42:41 AM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: The Rant
The reason the Left believes this is a "staged event" is because that is exactly what clinton would have done - and probably did on many occaisions!
57 posted on 12/18/2003 8:45:41 AM PST by Gritty ("A wicked man listens to evil lips, a liar pays attention to a malicious tongue"-Proverbs:17:4)
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To: concerned about politics
It was being planned 5 years in advance? Where was Clinton, and what did he know? Heck, Bush was still getting the Whitehouse exorcized and people moved in because of the 2000 attempted election theft! The CIA and FBI were still working on bootleg videos for Bills Hollywood friends.

The problem is Bill Clinton is not running against Bush for the presidency. So whatever Clinton's incompetence is not what the press is going to discuss.

This won't be about Clinton it will be about George Bush "What did he know and when did he know it".

Unlike the stupid inept dumb republicans, I am sure the Bushies are already figuring how to parry this attack. -tom

58 posted on 12/18/2003 8:48:36 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb republicans. - Capt. Tom)
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To: The Rant
You have thoughtful people basing their opinions on facts. Then you have guys like McDermott who base their opinions on their emotions.
59 posted on 12/18/2003 8:48:44 AM PST by MEGoody
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To: The Rant
Hussein is not in American custody. Bush is in Iraqi custody. A clever identity switch has taken place and Saddam Hussein now occupies the White House.

That was Bush getting his hair checked for lice. Wake up people!

60 posted on 12/18/2003 8:51:27 AM PST by beckett
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