Saddam Captured Newsconference occuring NOW [Live Thread]

CNN ^ | 12-14-03 | CNN

[bonesmccoy]

CNN anchor now reports news conference due at 4 AM PST/7AM EST

[DeepDish]

I heard something on meet the depressed that is interesting. Howie Dean is supposed to give a major foreign policy speech Monday. I can only wonder how juicy it would be if Sadaam were to caught two days from now, rather than yesterday. It would probably take until March for him to get his foot out of his mouth.

Many thanks to the soldiers got him. EEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!

[visualops]

I've been thru alot of crap in my life, but it all pales in comparison to either of them as President. That is truly a nightmare scenario.

[Moose4]

FNC keeps showing one set of people demonstrating waving red banners and a Soviet flag. Great, that's all we need, Communists in postwar Iraq.

}:-)4

[nicmarlo]

LOL! That's very good....very good! : )

[mass55th]

"It'll be interesting to hear the DemonRats spin this!!"

The libs are already commenting that Saddam couldn't possibly have been supervising the attacks in Iraq, due to his appearance, thus deemphasizing his capture. Like he stayed in that spiderhole 24 hours a day. These people can't find good in anything, at least not when it happens under a Republican Administration.

[oceanview]

we've got 9 of them running for the US presidency.

[mabelkitty]

Hussein went down, he thinks hes friends sold him out and let him hang, so he's going to bring them all down with him.

[nicmarlo]

This is a great day!

[longfellow]

neverheardofher.

[mass55th]

"I'm quite fond of Major Bob."

Get in line. Besides being a hottie, he tells it like it is, doesn't mince his words and has my enduring respect for being so forthright in his comments.

[ThinkingMan]

I just explained to my oldest son that all those people dancing in the street were celebrating their total freedom. This is something that he may be very lucky to see once in his life.

[Maigrey]

The motivation would be: quick, or slow and painful.

That would be some positive motivation for me...

[arasina]

I know one thing, I'm now going to have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Kerry on Fox now saying it's a great day, and a great opportunity for the President to "get it right" for the long term. sheesh.

[Ramtek57]

I told you,  Don't Mess with America!

[Darksheare]

Inspired by the graphic and a Calvin and Hobbes comic.

[ThinkingMan]

Isn't is great! Even my wife, who is not really a news junkie like me, has teared up over this! This is absolutely wonderful!

[SouthernFreebird]

What a horse-faced @ss.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Kerry said "HE" always wanted to do it right.

[oceanview]

but we don't have that option. Iraq itself does not even have a death penalty.

I hate to say it, we may have to make this guy some deal that involves no death penalty if we really need to get substantive information from him.

[July 4th]

If either one of them were to be President, it's time to move out to the plains of Nebraska in a home with no TV, radio, or electricity.

[mass55th]

"No Spiderhole ain't Spidermans main squeeze...."

I just heard Jim Angle of Fox News quote somebody about the identification of Saddam by "distinguishing marks & characteristics." I wonder how Bill Clinton feels seeing as he was identified in just about the same words by Paula Jones.

[headsonpikes]

One Head - One Pike!!

Please excuse violent tone - think of it as a metaphor.

;^)

[mabelkitty]

"JINGO BELLS, JINGO BELLS, JINGO ALL THE WAYYYYY!!!!!"

IN YOUR FACE, LIBERALS LEFTISTS PINKO COMMIE 'RATS!! IN YOUR FACE!!!

I don't know about y'all, but I swear John Kerry is running for President. Say what you want, but he really seems to be laying the ground work. Watch him jump in before the first primary.

*snicker snicker*

[O Neill]

He can shack up with OJ until the decorators are done with his new place.

That's a plan! They could play golf together...and have knife fights...Saddam with his Saladin sword! What a cut-up that would be!

[spookycc]

Right now Fox News is showing Iraqi's waving the American flag

I saw snow in that pic - I'm guessing it was Dearborn, Michigan. Sadly, I haven't seen an American flag in Iraq for some time, not even at the pro-Coalition rallies. Maybe they'll break some out today!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

But he did serve in Vietnam, and he does look French. :-D

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

but we don't have that option. Iraq itself does not even have a death penalty.

That was yesterday.

[mass55th]

"Fidel castro?"

At least Castro's hair matches his beard. Notice that Saddam has managed to keep his hair color black? It should be gray and black like his beard, but it isn't. That tells me that this guy hasn't been all that cooped up, but has at least been able to get his hair cut and colored. I wonder what his fingernails look like.

[prairiebreeze]

Christmas and choir always means a busy schedule in December. I'm off until later this afternoon.

Please ping me with any major breakthroughs and developments. I'll catch up with everybody then.

YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaww!!

Prairie

[Dysart]

Congratulations and a roaring thank you to Special Forces and the 4th ID from Fort Hood, TX!!!!!!!!

TO Saddam: Welcome to Hell...you've earned your place. And take a damn bath, you look like you've been living in a hole in the ground.

[Peach]

Will do, prairiebreeze. We're headed to a cocktail party around 5:00 but until then, if there's big news, I'll ping you to it.

NBC reporting President was notified about 15 hours ago about this. That doesn't square with my timeframe, but I'm too excited to rea lly compute.

[nicmarlo]

: )

[mass55th]

"Drudge lost validity to me"

He lost validity with me when he removed the link to FR years ago.

[SouthernFreebird]

But he did serve in Vietnam, and he does look French. :-D

He served in Vietnam...? lol

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Howdy Mete,

I believe a POWERFREEP may be in order at:

www.deanforamerica.com

[CWOJackson]

Roger that.

[July 4th]

The people posting on the BBC site are just livid about all of this:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, WE got him" Possibly the worst, most crass and counter-productive way to announce joyous news. It sends out the wrong message about America and the coalition to the world, especially the Arab world. --Adam Stimson, Sheffield, UK

Unbelievable.

[jbstrick]

And God bless the Brits!

[Salvation]

So exciting!

[Maigrey]

Well, we could always get the Kurdish people involved.

Or, have the Iraqi people pay a couple of dinars to hit him with their shoes.

Or fling insults at him.

[tutstar]

Courtesy of the Red White and Blue!!! WOOHOO!!

[tutstar]

Good morning Nic!

[Catspaw]

The Iraqis could beat the living crap out of Saddam with shoes--remember that great day when Saddam's statue came down?

[metesky]

This is the tipping point that V.D. Hanson talks about.

Great day, eh? They're going to have to surgically remove the grin I got!

[mikrofon]

Actually, Saddam gave up because he heard he could now get free prescriptions under the new Medicare plan... ;^)

A great day for Freedom in both Iraq and America!

[Maigrey]

Mr. Maigrey wike up at 9am, and saw the reports on FNC, and did his Dilbert Happy Dance.

And, it's our wedding anniversary, so indeed, it's a good day!

[doug from upland]

Yes, when I saw the replay, it was Iraqi journalists.

[mass55th]

"I don't think the Iraqi people will be truly free as long as Saddam is alive. But I also think the Iraqis will take care of that ASAP."

I agree that the Iraqis should be the ones to try him and execute him, but the coalition forces should be in charge of him until that process is over. There are too many individuals in Iraq who would be willing to take a bribe to help him escape. He needs to remain in our hands until his death.