Thank you President Bush. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Fox News ^ | 12-14-2003

[Guenevere]

President Bush and Tony Blair just unwrapped their first Christmas present!!

Thanks you two for pressing on to the goal!!!!

[BigWaveBetty]

CHRONOLOGY-Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein Reuters, 12.14.03, 7:32 AM ET

LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein near his home town of Tikrit in a major coup for Washington's beleaguered occupation force in Iraq.

Here is a short chronology of events in Iraq since the war to topple Saddam started.

March 20 - U.S. launches war against Iraq with selective strikes on Baghdad targeting "very senior" leadership.

April 9 - U.S. forces sweep into Baghdad as Saddam Hussein's 24-year rule crumbles into chaos and looting. On May 1 U.S. President George W. Bush says major fighting in Iraq is over.

May 6 - Bush names former State Department counter terrorism chief Paul Bremer as the top civil administrator for Iraq.

May 11 - The U.S. commander of coalition forces in Iraq tells Iraqis that Saddam's Baath Party is dissolved.

July 13 - A 25-member U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council holds its inaugural meeting in Baghdad.

July 22 - U.S. military confirms that Saddam's two sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle in Mosul.

Aug 7 - A truck bomb explodes outside the Jordanian embassy compound in Baghdad, killing at least 17 people.

Aug 19 - A massive truck bomb devastates the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. Twenty-two people are killed including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. envoy to Iraq.

Aug 29 - A car bomb kills at least 83 Iraqis, including top Shi'ite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.

Sept 1 - The Governing Council appoints 25 ministers to run the day-to-day work of ministries.

Sept 9 - The Governing Council takes a step towards international legitimacy after its delegate occupied Iraq's vacant seat at an Arab League ministerial meeting in Cairo.

Sept 21 - Iraq unveils sweeping reforms allowing foreign investors into all sectors except oil, ending 30 years of state economic control.

Sept 25 - Akila al-Hashemi, a member of the Governing Council, dies from wounds sustained in a gun attack on Sept 20.

Oct 12 - Iraq's oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum and his aide survive an assassination attempt in central Baghdad.

Oct 15 - Iraq adopts a new currency, banishing the face of Saddam. Oct 16 - The U.S.-drafted Security Council resolution 1511 on Iraq's future is adopted unanimously despite misgivings.

Oct 24 - International donors pledge at least $33 billion in aid and loans over the next four years at a conference in Madrid to raise funds for Iraqi reconstruction.

The United Nations and World Bank have estimated that Iraq needs about $56 billion to rebuild over that period.

Oct 27 - Bombers strike four times in Baghdad killing at least 35 people near a Red Cross building and three police stations. Some 230 people are wounded.

Nov 12 - A car bomb kills at least 28 people including 19 Italians in Nassiriya. Of the 19 Italians killed, 17 are military police, two civilians.

Nov 17 - U.S. soldiers capture former Iraqi special forces officer and Fedayeen militia leader Kathim Mohammad Faris who is suspected of staging attacks on American troops in the "Sunni triangle" region around Baghdad.

Nov 22 - Suicide bombers detonate cars packed with explosives outside Baquba's police headquarters and a police station in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad killing at least 18.

Dec 9 - Citing national security reasons, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz rules that prime contracts to rebuild Iraq will exclude firms from nations such as France and Germany that opposed the war.

Dec 14 - U.S. officials announce capture of Saddam.

- A car bomb rips through a police station in Khalidiyah in western Iraq, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens.

Link Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service

[LurkedLongEnough]

We Win.

[bonfire]

Bush just ROCKS!!!


I'm here in my little world, no one awake, and GLOATING!!!

This is a good day!

[speedy]

Hilarious. Looks like you've been planning this for some time!!

[ohioWfan]

Thank you for your call to prayer for President Bush's safety, annie.

And THANK YOU, LORD for this day!!!!

(and for this country, and for our President, and for our MIGHTY military!)

[InvisibleChurch]

he looks like karla marx

[autoresponder]

"Timing of capture was political and a deliberate religious slur against innocent Islamic Freedom Fighters worldwide" -- Kofi Anan

[Socratic]

"I would guess the site you are refering to is Idiotsonline.com"

Close, but no Cupie doll. Although skunks by any other name would smell the same. (I do suspect that you are merely continuing with gleeful comment, and that you really DO know the obvious answer).

[Moonmad27]

Fabulous! I didn't know the big news until clicking on the thread! What a great Christmas present - for our troops, for all Iraqis, and for the US! (It's a bag of coal in their stockings for the naughty Dems, though)

[InvisibleChurch]

when will xxxillary hint that it might not be hussein, but rather a body-double?

[RobFromGa]

Just mailed...

Dear President Bush:

Thank you for your unwavering commitment and your firm resolve to see these difficult tasks completed. Most Americans recognize that the exact timing of the events can never be known.

At the same time, most Americans know that we will prevail against those that want to destroy us. This is in large part due to the powerful leadership that you have shown. Knowing that you are in the chair, making the final decisions based on principle, rather than sticking your finger up in the air to test the daily whim, is very reassuring.

God Bless you and I hope that you are able to complete most of your dreams for America in your remaining five years as President. I will do what I can to help make that happen.

Respectfully,
Rob *******
Norcross, Georgia

[martin_fierro]

[stanz]

They got him they got him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diogenesis]

[mystery-ak]

Tony Blair and Pres. Bush to speak.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

If your day is not bright enough already ... go over to Democratic Underground and that will REALLY make you happy. Those folks are so glum and negative because the tyrant has been captured. LA DEE DAH, DEE LA DEE DAH.

[Jhensy]

Good MORNING!!!!! Awesome, just waking up to this! Here's a toast to our troops, our President, our leaders, our allies and all fellow Freepers who have stood the course!!!! SKOAL, we deserve it!!! WOO HOO!!!

And SCREW YOU Howard Dean and your ilk, you PR*CKS.

[BigWaveBetty]

Nah, I just love those pics of GWB with his chainsaw, so anytime I can use one...

Saddam was found cowering in a dirt hole wearing a blue dress with some sort of disgusting stain on it. Pic of dress below. ;-)

[B-Bear]

I'm so glad the DU told us the REAL story!LOL!