[SJackson]

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

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!

[tiamat]

"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

[TalBlack]

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.

[squidly]

There are no American infidels who have captured Saddam.

[BluH2o]

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.

[Enterprise]

"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.

[Alouette]

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!

[Lanza]

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.

[Joe Bonforte]

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...

[Paladin2]

What was the Syrian reaction?

[Helms]

HO HO HO!!!............Thanks GWB for a Great gift. American Cowboy gets his man, "dead or alive"

[Congressman Billybob]

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."

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Wondering about the collective stupidity of the arab world, I mean these clowns dont have two brain cells to rub together the way they act and carry on.....LOL

[traumer]

" WHILE PALESTINIANS TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS.... "

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!

[VOA]

STUNNED ARAB MEDIA REPORT SADDAM'S ARREST, WHILE PALESTINIANS TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS

Where's Baghdad Bob when you need him?

[steveo]

WHILE PALESTINIANS TRY TO AVOID THE NEWS

La la la la we can't hear you la la la

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Wondering about the collective stupidity of the arab world, I mean these clowns dont have two brain cells to rub together the way they act and carry on.....LOL

[Former Fetus]

a big supporter of Arafat and a financial supporter of Palestinian "martyrs" who have blown themselves up

It amazes me that Saddam did not use his gun to become a "martyr"... one shot to an American soldier, one to his head. Then I realized... 72 virgins are ok for your average fallaheen, not for the new Nebucchadnezzer. He was probably trying to make a deal for 72,000!

[lilylangtree]

Conspicuously missing is the pali woman with the long noisy tongue that's gone where everyone else has gone before.