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Saddam's body in home town for burial
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| 30 Dec 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 12/30/2006 12:49:22 PM PST by indcons
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Interesting but surprising. I thought his body would have been buried in an unmarked grave (like Zarqavi's).
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:49:25 PM PST
by
indcons
To: indcons
That's what I thought, too.
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:50:10 PM PST
by
livius
To: indcons
Tikrit the new Sunni holy site.
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:50:45 PM PST
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
To: indcons
Let'em gather there. Then bomb the place. (Wishful thinking...)
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:51:23 PM PST
by
SolidWood
(Sadr lives. Kill him.)
To: indcons
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:54:46 PM PST
by
pcottraux
(It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
To: indcons
A mistake. An unmarked cesspool or composting heap would do much better.
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:55:21 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: indcons
Saddam upon capture: "I am president Saddam Hussein and I am prepared to negotiate."
Iraqi people: Negotiations closed.
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posted on
12/30/2006 12:56:34 PM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(I don't march to other people's opinion of me or my beliefs. I march to my beliefs and heart.)
To: indcons
Same here.
I was thinking that Saddam would be cremated and his ashes dumped in the desert somewhere.
There's now a shrine for every Baathist and Saddam-worshipper to go to.
The Russians had the right idea. They hid Hitler's body for decades because they didn't want it to be a shrine for every Nazi lover and Hitler-worshipper.
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:03:05 PM PST
by
MplsSteve
To: indcons
I'd like to see the body before I celebrate.
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:05:32 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: indcons
The article said -- "A defence lawyer and a senior Iraqi government official confirmed the plan for the ousted president to be buried in his home region, a bastion of the Sunni Arab insurgency against the U.S. occupation and the Shi'ite-led government."
That's a bad move. They should have kept the body away from that area (the center of the terrorist insurgency). It will simply add fuel to all this stuff. It will serve no good.
A better use of the body would have been to give it to a circus, touring the U.S. and have people pay $5 a ticket to see him.
Regards,
Star Traveler
To: GSlob
Screw that, dismember his body and dump it in the Gulf or one of the rivers (Tigris or Euphrates, their call).
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:07:22 PM PST
by
YoungAmerican84
(Honorary member of the World Zionist Conspiracy)
To: MplsSteve
There's now a shrine for every Baathist and Saddam-worshipper to go to. And a place for Kurds to spit or pee on...
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:08:42 PM PST
by
YoungAmerican84
(Honorary member of the World Zionist Conspiracy)
To: Old Professer
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:11:06 PM PST
by
indcons
(The Koran - the world's first WMD.)
To: indcons
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:39:49 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Star Traveler
FNC is saying Saddam requested burial in RAMADI, not Tikrit. And that is what is planned. Deliberately as a center of the Sunni rebellion. How can this be? Unless we want to see who goes there and use it for intel purposes?
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:44:27 PM PST
by
txrangerette
("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
To: indcons
They should have done what the Allies did in Germany when they hung the 13 memembers of Hitler's gov't .... cremate them and drop the ashes into the local river ... no shrine, no place for fanatics to gather .....
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:48:03 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("The Americans on Flight 93 did more to counter terrorism than the Democrats have done in 4 years")
To: indcons
This is a mistake in an effort to accommodate Sunni sensibliities. Saddam's grave will be a symbol and rallying point.
To: Anti-Bubba182
Did you hear that it would be RAMADI, not Tikrit, at Saddam's request? I just about fainted from shock. Not really, but if true, this is insanity. (Unless we want to see "who goes there" and then zap them...)
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posted on
12/30/2006 1:55:42 PM PST
by
txrangerette
("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
To: txrangerette
I think RAMADI is where the sons are burried. It is dumb. Ramadi is insurgent central. It would be a good idea to see who shows up there but would be tough without control there.
There could also be trouble from those who may wish to desecrate the grave, like burying a big IED there.
To: indcons; All
Saran wrap or a BIG Ziploc Bag and sealed in a Port-o-let, painted in bad taste and buried in a septic field on the outskirts of the Tikrit Waste Treatment Plant. S shrine for all. Pilgrims from far and wide may visit the day of his neck lengthening every year and eat a crap cookie to Sadassed's memory.
Aloha Sadman, You sure sucked the big one while you were here.
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posted on
12/30/2006 2:08:38 PM PST
by
Gideon Reader
(ALL of my weapons are cleaned, my mags are loaded, and my music is very, VERY cool.)
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