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Saddam son 'was poised to topple dad'
The Australian ^ | March 3, 2005

Posted on 03/02/2005 6:24:25 PM PST by NCjim

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To: NCjim

Oh, yes, Mr. Arnett. Everything in Iraq would have been blissful under "Good King Uday." If only those terrible Americans hadn't interfered...(Saddam would have gracefully stepped aside as his faithful son seized power and commenced a thousand year reign of peace and happiness. Yeah, right.)


21 posted on 03/02/2005 6:43:58 PM PST by wai-ming
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To: bikepacker67

Good boys, indeed. Just merely misunderstood...


22 posted on 03/02/2005 6:45:47 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: NCjim

I wonder if Petah still believes the war plan in Iraq has failed? Anybody at Playboy ask him?


23 posted on 03/02/2005 6:46:28 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
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To: NCjim

Uday was a monster of cruelty and brutality that was not even rivaled by his father. Thank goodness he is dead.

Uday overthrowing Saddam would have been much like Kim Jong-il overthrowing his father - it would have been trading one dictator for another far worse.

I am personally glad that the situation was handled in the manner which it was.


24 posted on 03/02/2005 6:48:20 PM PST by MWS
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To: NCjim

This is great! Saddam's own son was gonna stab him in the back. It's hard to know which of these three creeps was the lowest form of life.


25 posted on 03/02/2005 6:48:58 PM PST by Nick Danger (The only way out is through)
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To: NCjim

Well seem like the general sentiment is that this is bullshit. But I will pose a question and provide the answer.

Q. What do you get when you put a kid in a man's pants?
A. Baggy pants.


26 posted on 03/02/2005 6:52:22 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Nick Danger
This is great! Saddam's own son was gonna stab him in the back. It's hard to know which of these three creeps was the lowest form of life.

What's even better is that he had turned people who were supposed to be loyal to Saddam. I hope someone gives a copy of this article, along with an Arabic translation, to Saddam in his cell. We're likely to get all kinds of information.

27 posted on 03/02/2005 7:02:26 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: NCjim

Who cares?


28 posted on 03/02/2005 7:02:54 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: McGavin999

"I hope someone gives a copy of this article, along with an Arabic translation, to Saddam in his cell."

I read somewhere that Saddam speaks English - at least for now. He will probably lose that ability shortly.


29 posted on 03/02/2005 7:09:14 PM PST by Peelod (Perversion is not festive)
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To: NCjim

Gee, if we'd just waited we could have had that awful Saddam thrown out and a new, benevolent government led by the guy who had a woman coated with honey and fed to starving dogs. Quite an improvement.


30 posted on 03/02/2005 7:10:23 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: NCjim

Saddam groomed them from the time they were boys in the fine arts of torture and sadism and worse. Thank God we never had to see the exponential increase in terror that the rise of power of one of them would have brought to the area. Good thing Pres Bush had the ba!!s to step up.


31 posted on 03/02/2005 7:13:52 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: NCjim

Arnett? I thought he was fired by MSNBC for INSISTING the coalition effort had failed, even as the bombs were falling on Baghdad. Did CNN pick him up after that?


32 posted on 03/02/2005 7:15:14 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: 68skylark
"I thought he was fired by NBC, not CNN."

He was...unless CNN hired him afterward and fired him for the same reason (unlikely, given that Jordan was in bed with Saddam)

33 posted on 03/02/2005 7:16:46 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: NCjim
Did someone just pass gas or is Arnet talking again? You can't believe anything that this deluded ego maniac spews.
34 posted on 03/02/2005 7:16:56 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: jdm
"I had to stop for a second. 'US Cable News Network?' "

Me too. I actually went back to the first paragraph to see if I missed where it said WHICH "US cable news network". The significance of the caps only filtered in after about 30 seconds.

35 posted on 03/02/2005 7:19:16 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: NCjim
THE eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was plotting to overthrow his father just as US troops advanced on Baghdad in March 2003, journalist Peter Arnett claimed in Playboy magazine.

Now there is a creditable source. Did he tell him that over a glass of baby milk?

I would believe it until Baghdad Bob confirms it.

36 posted on 03/02/2005 7:19:19 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith manages. (Afghanistan - Libya - Ukraine - Iraq - Lebanon - Where next?))
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To: NCjim
"Though it has not been reported until now, Uday Hussein was the biggest proponent of regime change inside Iraq," Arnett wrote.

That doesn't mean we wanted an Uday regime. He can stay dead as far as I'm concerned.

37 posted on 03/02/2005 7:19:41 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: ops33
"And even if he did what difference would it have made?"

The guy ordering dissidents sent feet first into the plastic shredders and ordering the Kurds bombed with chemical weapons would have had a different name....and probably even MORE WMD.

38 posted on 03/02/2005 7:20:58 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: donozark
Looks like a couple of TOW-heads

They were of the highest caliber.

39 posted on 03/02/2005 7:28:50 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Got Gas?)
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To: NCjim

"Though it has not been reported until now, Uday Hussein was the biggest proponent of regime change inside Iraq," Arnett wrote

Right Peter. Replacing Hussein with the Beast would have been just peachy. Oh, if only we'd done that instead...


40 posted on 03/02/2005 7:32:43 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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