Posted on 12/15/2003 7:05:44 AM PST by RayChuang88
December 15, 2003 -- WHEN U.S. administrator Jerry Bremer stood before the microphone yesterday morning and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," he was sending an important message to America and the world. One way or another, Bremer was saying, America will get the job done.
We didn't get Saddam by dropping daisy-cutter bombs on him in March and April. We didn't get him when we killed his sons over the summer. But we kept at it with determination and resolve.
It is certainly true that determination and resolve are necessary in the completion of a difficult task. But they are useless if results don't follow from them. If you don't get the job done, you run the risk of appearing incompetent, clumsy, bumbling.
Well, now the United States is no longer mocked by having the key target of the war out of our grasp and on the loose. The capture of Saddam Hussein restores some of the precious luster to the American effort in Iraq - an effort that had come to seem tarnished to many here and abroad.
What's more, the nature of his capture - with Saddam giving himself up quietly after having basically buried himself alive - could not have been better suited to the goal of quashing the terrorist attacks on American forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The biggest loser of them all: Dr. Howard Dean. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. ;-)
The Frenchmen John F Kerry loses big too.
Kerry voted for the war resolution, then last week he came out cursing that President Bush f’d it all up, this week Saddam has been captured. Timing is everything and Kerry doesn’t have it.
The Dean "houseparties" will be rather somber this week. Maybe they can switch to selling Mary Kay.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.