Triumph!

Joseph Sobran column ^ | 12-16-03 | Sobran, Joseph

[martin_fierro]

No, seriously -- Saddam Hussein is a very nice man...

...FOR ME TO POOP ON!

[2banana]

So Saddam Hussein, who hasn’t broken any American laws, will stand trial under the supervision of President Bush

Actually, I think he ran some political ads for democrats 60 days before an election...

[dirtboy]

The “gathering threat,” arrested like a street bum, looked pathetic, bearded, dirty, unkempt, haggard. He had no power, no followers, no more money than he could carry with him. And certainly no WMDs. He was taken without a struggle. What a threat.

I used to think Sobran had a clue at times. I don't think that any more. The reason Saddam was in this state was because we DID take out his power base - yet Sobran tries to spin Saddam's end state into some kind of rationale that he was never a threat. Truly, stupendously idiotic.

[Little Ray]

It is a pity that Joseph Sobran = Barf Alert.

I have lots of problems with current Republican spending habits myself, but the rest of the article is rubbish.

WMD: He's right we have not found WMDs, but we have found evidence of ongoing programs, chemical warheads, etc. For some reason idiots like Sobran keep leaving this part out.

Effect on terrorism: Well, he's not paying for Hamaside bombers at $25K a boom. And there was nice little brief case we found with him... and there is now significant evidence of an Iraq - Al Quaeda link.

Trial: Hey, Joe: This time we won't have to "carefully phrase" the charges to avoid embarrassment. 'Scuse me, the IRAQIS are not going to have to carefully phrase the charges...

Geez.

[Billthedrill]

It’s quite clear that Saddam has been a fugitive and effective nonentity for months; the Iraqi resistance has flourished without regard to him, let alone direction or inspiration from him.

I really have to wonder what the basis for this remarkable statement is. Iraqis on both sides of the issue disagree vehemently with Sobran here. The briefcase picked up with Saddam ought to be a clue that he was, in fact, quite involved. The reaction of the entire country is evidence that even in hiding his shadow ("Saddam of the seven masks") loomed large over that tortured country. This statement is so blatantly mistaken that it calls into question the entire rest of the piece.

[chimera]

True, it’s hard not to be touched at the thought of an old man suddenly going from a diet of lobster and caviar to baloney sandwiches every day; but he’s probably in no position to gripe about prison conditions.

He'd better not gripe. He's come out of it at least with his skin (for now). That's a darned sight more than he'd have if we turned him over to the Iraqis he abused, or the Kurds. Saddam's still alive (for now) to argue his side, such as it is. That's more than the victims of his gas attacks have.

[dirtboy]

This statement is so blatantly mistaken that it calls into question the entire rest of the piece.

I guess Joe hasn't read the Ralph Peters piece about the 500 pages of documents found with Saddam that he used to direct the resistance movement. Documents that are now being used to roll up said movement.

Yep, Joe has gone so far around the bend that he's meeting up with the far left on the far side of the sun.

[goodnesswins]

the name "Sobran" now seems to call into question why this guy is even taken seriously....seems like so many writers just speculate about how they can put together an article and get it published in the liberal press. And this piece shows how.

[Bommer]

So Saddam Hussein, who hasn’t broken any American laws...

So Attempted assassination of a President isn't against the law? Damn! Squeaky Fraume and Sarah Harris will be happy to here that!

[Cobra64]

And as with his switcheroo on WMDs, he doesn’t seem the least bit embarrassed about reversing himself or abandoning what he had presented as his settled convictions.

The author is another whacko. "Switcheroo on WMDs"? We're still looking for them. And undoubdtedly, we'll find 'em. And this dolt will regret his stupid, uninformed statements.

[Cobra64]

...from a diet of lobster and caviar to baloney sandwiches...

I thought that the Muslim religion forbade these butt-sniffers from eating baloney. Then again, this article is baloney.

[skeeter]

I used to think Sobran got a raw deal from WFB years ago when he was asked to leave the NR. I don't feel that way anymore - Joe's turned into a real crackpot.

[Theodore R.]

It does seem that Joseph Sobran did not turn his dismissal from National Review into "lemonade", doesn't it? I don't see how he is staying afloat with this column, which we get access to usually a week or two late on his website. He considered running for vice president with Howard Phillips in 2000 but backed out for financial reasons. He is quite a Shakespearean scholar too.

[RichInOC]

And Joe Sobran is a great conservative writer...

...for me to poop on.

[wayoverontheright]

I agree. The anti-war left is by necessity delusional, because there is so much they have to deny, forget, and ignore.

He had no power, no followers....

No FOLLOWERS?. The families of our dead soldiers, especially the ones killed "since Bush declared an end to the military phase" would be a little disheartened to hear that one.

[Consort]

Joe Sobran is a great conservative writer whiner.

[KantianBurke]

lol! The second I saw the title, right away I thought of America's favorite insult comic dog. :>

[Ground0]

Well, if being in possession of $750,000 American Federal Reserve notes is not criminal in Iraq, it should be; because it sure is here.

If any one of us were ever caught sauntering down the street (much less burrowed in some hole) with that amount of cash on our person, so many red flags would be raised we'd think we were in Moscow.

Reality checks are surely in order for those sypathetic to Saddam's capture/detainment/overall predicament...OK, thorough background checks as well.

[Nick Danger]

This article proves Einstein's hypothesis that space is curved. Head right, and keep going long enough, and you pop out on the left.