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STUNNED ARAB MEDIA REPORT SADDAM'S ARREST, WHILE PALESTINIANS TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS
IMRA ^ | 12-13-03 | Michael Widlanski

Posted on 12/14/2003 9:39:28 AM PST by SJackson

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1 posted on 12/14/2003 9:39:29 AM PST by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
2 posted on 12/14/2003 9:40:27 AM PST by SJackson (If Iraq came across the Jordan River I'd grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die, x42)
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STUNNED ARAB MEDIA REPORT SADDAM'S ARREST, WHILE PALESTINIANS TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS

How does it feel, suckers?!?! The noose is ever-tightening on terrorist scum!

3 posted on 12/14/2003 9:40:48 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Bad spellers of the world untie!!)
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"When asked what he thought about the capture of Saddam by US troops, Yasser Arrafat stuck his fingers in his ears, clenched his eyes shut and jumped up and down yelling , "I can't hear you! i can't hear you! La la la! "

Tia

4 posted on 12/14/2003 9:44:41 AM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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To: SJackson
Why oh why aren't the Palestinian's given the War that they so ardently desire? Peace ISIN'T the absence of war, rather it's what results AFTER war.

The Palestinians have so debased themselves with Hate for so long that they couldn't possibly win a war, they would be wiped out, and we could all get on with our lives and hear no more of their DAMNED whining.
5 posted on 12/14/2003 9:45:30 AM PST by TalBlack ("Tal, no song means anything without someone else...")
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To: SJackson
There are no American infidels who have captured Saddam.
6 posted on 12/14/2003 9:46:00 AM PST by squidly
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Arab language media reacted quickly, though sometimes in a somewhat stunned fashion, to American reports that U.S. forces had captured former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ...

No more stunned than NBC's Tom Brokaw ... to say he was glum would be an understatement. Andrea Mitchell reported in from Washington and all she could talk about was the fact they haven't found any WMD in Iraq.

7 posted on 12/14/2003 9:46:21 AM PST by BluH2o
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"Throngs of Iraqi people have rushed to the streets, and there are signs of joyful shooting in the air inside the Iraqi capital"

This was followed by joyful shootings of Baathists and Fedayeen.

8 posted on 12/14/2003 9:47:41 AM PST by Enterprise
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Glorious leader Saddam has NOT been captured! It is all a trick by the evil Zionists and accursed Americans! That is GABBY HAYES you see, not our glorious leader Saddam!

9 posted on 12/14/2003 9:48:02 AM PST by Alouette (Personne me plumerá)
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To: SJackson
BTW, has anyone seen the hideous Yassar on the tube lately? I haven't, and we know the dude is in bad health.

One freeper commented a while back (over reports of Yassar's very poor health), the the PLO will be doing a "weekend at Yassar's" type thing if the guy dies.
10 posted on 12/14/2003 9:50:53 AM PST by Lanza
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To: TalBlack
......Peace ISIN'T the absence of war, rather it's what results AFTER war........

This needs to be stated every day. Peace is the interlude. Peace in an anomaly.

Among humans, war is the status quo. To believe otherwise is to invite your own death.
11 posted on 12/14/2003 9:51:35 AM PST by bert (Have you offended a liberal today?)
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To: bert
Well said, Bert.
12 posted on 12/14/2003 9:54:00 AM PST by Libertina (FReepers of a feather flock together...isn't life great?)
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To: BluH2o
No more stunned than NBC's Tom Brokaw ... to say he was glum would be an understatement. Andrea Mitchell reported in from Washington and all she could talk about was the fact they haven't found any WMD in Iraq.

I watched Dan Rather. He truly seemed bothered, down and irritated. Then I turned to the Fox News reporter (Jim Angle?), who had an almost mirthful smirk on his face. Priceless!!

13 posted on 12/14/2003 9:54:36 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Lanza
Maybe this Holiday season will see Osama, Castro, AND Yasser in their final days... please Santa??
14 posted on 12/14/2003 9:55:50 AM PST by Teacher317
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The Palestinian broadcasts, which featured the news as the fourth news item, made no mention of Iraqi crowds celebrating the capture of Saddam, a big supporter of Arafat and a financial supporter of Palestinian "martyrs" who have blown themselves up attacking Israelis.

You know, a few days ago, a similar story was playing out on our own media:

The American broadcasts made no mention of Iraqi crowds numbering in the thousands marching against terrorism...

15 posted on 12/14/2003 9:56:24 AM PST by Joe Bonforte
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To: Teacher317
I hope the Saddamites see these pictures of our troops with a Christmas tree in his palace, watching his capture on TV.


16 posted on 12/14/2003 9:57:37 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Teacher317
Saw Dan this morning. He really did seem down. He was talking about how they had "literally man-handled Saddam".
17 posted on 12/14/2003 9:57:52 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: SJackson
What was the Syrian reaction?
18 posted on 12/14/2003 9:58:28 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: SJackson
HO HO HO!!!............Thanks GWB for a Great gift. American Cowboy gets his man, "dead or alive"


19 posted on 12/14/2003 9:58:32 AM PST by Helms (Liberalism is a faux compassion that condescends at best and subjugates at worse)
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To: SJackson
Almost two months ago, I wrote a column entitled, "General Washington, Major Andre and Der Fuhrer Adolf Hilter -- Lessons for Iraq." Among the points it made was that seven months passed in Germany after the end of the war, before the United States was able to establish to the certainty of even the German diehards, that Hitler was dead.

Until that point, General Eisenhower was under a standing order "to capture Hitler alive," and a majority of the German people still believed that Hitler was alive and leading the resistance.

Here is a link to that article on FreeRepublic.

The important point is that IT TOOK LESS TIME TO CAPTURE SADDAM THAN TO CONFIRM THE DEATH OF HITLER. Even now, as this capture is being reported, no one in the American press is drawing the valid historical parallel between the occupation of Germany, 1945-46, and the occupation of Iraq, 2003-04.

I haven't heard many comments by Democrat "leaders" on this subject, but I am certain that Li'l Tommy Daschle is "deeply saddened" by the news. The American press, having seldom cracked a history book, is merely surprised.

Congressman Billybob

Click here for discussion thread on latest column, "In Praise of Bigotry."

20 posted on 12/14/2003 9:59:56 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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