Gotta love that man! :)
Posted on 12/30/2006 7:37:32 AM PST by Valin
leave it to Mark!
The reality is that, as long as he was alive, there was always the possibility that he would return. When a dictator has exercised the total control over his subjects that Saddam did, his hold on them can only end with his death.I was saying the exact same thing to a friend last night.
Gotta love that man! :)
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Brought to You Courtesy of the Red, White And Blue
Posted by Dean Barnett | 10:40 AM
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/ae8c9bec-fbc2-4f79-8d0b-9dfdbc5054b3
Chalk one up for the good guys. Saddam Hussein met his end last night, proving the cliché “better late than never” has its times and places.
In the annals of history, such moments of poetic justice are rare. For every Mussolini who winds up on a meat-hook, there are probably a dozen Stalins, Arafats and Castros who get to die without having to reckon with the horrors they created.
There is one reason why Saddam Hussein’s life got the ending it deserved twelve hours ago: The righteous force of the United States of America.
PRESIDENT BUSH GETS A LOT OF criticism for his handling of Iraq and the larger war on terror. Much of it is deserved. The rules of engagement and the ultimate end-game in Iraq have never been clearly articulated. The occupation has been a mess, not because the nature of the mission has been poorly defined, but rather because it’s been barely defined at all. The policies dealing with Iran specifically and the wider war against Radical Islam in general have been mushy to date and again poorly articulated.
But President Bush has his strengths. The weak-kneed among us, like the NewYork Times editorial board and the president’s father, never knew what to do with Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush did – kill him. At his best, Bush shows a focus and a harshness that scares the stuffing out of the rest of the world.
Our enemies were watching last night. I bet Bashir Assad was picturing his neck in that noose, knowing full well that George W. Bush’s ire would be something that John Kerry, Arlen Specter and any other sympathetic Senatorial dhimmis would be unable to save him from. Kim Jong Il and a host of loonies in Iran probably took notice as well. For them, the sad fact is that they remain alive only at the pleasure of George W. Bush. I doubt that thought gives them much comfort.
I’VE NEVER OFFERED THE FOLLOWING SPECULATION in print, primarily because I didn’t want to jinx things. But I think the main reason we haven’t had a repeat of 9/11 or something worse in over five years is because George W. Bush scares the s**t out of his enemies. When domestic liberal whine, “He scaaaares me,” they really mean it. The world’s bad people feel the same way. The American reprisals to a terror attack that took place under George W. Bush’s watch would likely be swift, brutal and disproportionate.
Our enemies may be crazy, but they’re not stupid. I bet the next 9/11, which will probably be magnitudes worse than the previous 9/11, will wait until George W. Bush is gone from office. Our enemies see the rest of our leadership class as anxious to curry favor with those who threaten our destruction. And while the road-to-Damascus Senators are the worst offenders, practically our entire “elite” structure is suspect. The Baker Group was bi-partisan. The media? Don’t even get me started. If our enemies were to conclude that a major attack on U.S. soil would cause many of our political factions to sue for peace, they would be wrong. But they wouldn’t be unreasonable.
Bush’s successor will be tested. That’s almost a certainty. And while Bush’s communications skills and policies have too often been wanting, the country may someday pine once again for a President who was feared.
Agreed! Now who's next? *Rubs Hands Together* ;)
http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/worstdictators.html
"And while Bush’s communications skills and policies have too often been wanting, the country may someday pine once again for a President who was feared."
Amen to that! I'm so glad that Saddam is now "pining for the Fjordes!" (Monty Python humor.)
"A courtroom in Baghdad: good. A courtroom in The Hague: bad."
Thank goodness he wasn't handed over to The Hague!
Heh heh...I need to blast that song in tribute to that bastard getting his neck stretched.
I go back and forth between Assad and Ahmenajihad like I'm trying to choose between a Reese's cup and a Heath bar. They both just look so tasty....
GWAR ROCKS! Hope Saddam experiences a thousand hangings a day by the devil himself!
LOL!
LOL!
Not only that....but I believe that there is a group, or groups who are working right here in America...quietly taking care of those who would do harm to us...killing them outright. I have heard middle-east people complaining that their relatives or acquaintances have disappeared, never to be heard from again.
Pres Bush told us in his address right after 911 that there will be actions that will not be known for many years, and there will be other things that will never be known. This could be one of the "things" that would never be known.
Of course, it still doesn't keep some of us from "speculating" and hoping that's true.
Mookie Sadr!
(Muslim) Informants in American Service
The Strategy Page ^ | June 4, 2006 | The Strategy Page
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1643576/posts
Posted on 06/05/2006 7:56:30 AM CDT by Little Ray
A recent terrorist trial, and conviction, of an Islamic terrorists in New York City brought out the extent to which police have infiltrated Moslem communities in order to uncover terrorist plots. While most of this counter-terrorist activity within Moslem communities is kept secret, enough information has leaked out to make it clear that it's no accident that the United States has not suffered another terrorist attack since September 11, 2001.
There is an extensive informant network within Moslem communities all over the United States. The FBI was pleasantly surprised right after September 11, 2001, by the number of calls they got from American Moslems, reporting suspicious events in their communities, or volunteering to keep an eye on things. It turned out that there was a substantial number of American Moslems, most of them recent immigrants (legal and illegal) that were pro al Qaeda. These attitudes had been causing distress among American Moslems since the 1990s. There had been violence, and even some murders, as the Islamic radicals tried to take control of Mosques, and other Moslem immigrant organizations.
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But what happened last night is the worst nightmare of the other nine still alive.
And he'll tell us all about it in his next book, rumor has it the working title is "Anyone who DOESN'T listen to me is a commie!"
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