[Brian Mosely]

"You just arrived," he said. "You're late. What took you so long?"

Talk to the UN.

[concerned about politics]

. "You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave."

Bump for the goood guys.
A little further, and Iraqi's will be celebrating like they've never had the chance to celebrate before.

[Mark]

Earlier today I sent this public opinion comment to a local paper:

What Took You So Long?

As our troops moved towards the towns in Iraq, crowds of citizens who lived under a cruel regime swarmed our vehicles, thanking our troops for saving them from torture and death from Saddam. Many screamed, "What took you so long"?

Let's see, what did take us so long? The UN, France, liberal Democrat Senators, Code Pink, L.A. City council, Michael Moore and all of the other Hollywood wierdos just to name a few...the list goes on.

[Bobby777]

The Guardian? ... Justin Raimondo on vacation? ... hehe ...

Hoping that all Iraqi people cheer being liberated from Saddam Hussein and his sons ...

[WOSG]

Tawfik Mohammed, the headmaster, initially denied his school had been looted, then admitted it. "This is the result of your entering," he said. "Whenever any army enters an area it becomes chaos. We are cautious about the future. We are very afraid."

From another article that mentioned this guy, it gave the distinct impression that this guy a Baathist functionary. Other people were afraid to speak out against Saddam in his presence.

The media will likely be quite sloppy in letting baathists spount Saddamite propoganda as 'the voice of the people'. I'll take the Iraqis who lost sons to Saddam's torture chambers over these baathist Govt thugs.

[billorites]

"Safwan is a crumbling, dead-end place, full of poor, restless young men..."

Kinda like Brockton.

[mdittmar]

Afraid that the US and Britain will abandon them, the people of Safwan did not touch the portraits and murals of Saddam Hussein hanging everywhere. It was left to the marines to tear them down.

Typical guardian reporting.

Is that a Safwan resident beating saddam in the nose with his shoe?

[cake_crumb]

"You just arrived," he said. "You're late. What took you so long? God help you become victorious. I want to say hello to Bush, to shake his hand. We came out of the grave."

EGAD, that's enough to bring tears. As much respect as I have for the elder President Bush, I knew he was making a mistake by bowing to those who said we couldn't take Saddam out because it would 'destabilize' the region.

For 12 years, I've felt guilty that we were unable to finish it, though no doubt leaving Saddam alive was the only choice available to us at the time in order to gain Saudi cooperation - and our accidental attempts to blow him up anyway missed.

All I can say to these people is : We're sorry we're late, but we had to wait for the right leader and the right circumstances. But we're here now, and we are going to finish this.

[cake_crumb]

"Afraid that the US and Britain will abandon them, the people of Safwan did not touch the portraits and murals of Saddam Hussein hanging everywhere"

Hmmm...mister Guardian reporter...perhaps you just weren't in the right place at the right time...this certainly looks like TOUCHING to me...

An Iraqi man in Safwan beats a poster of Saddam with his shoe after a US marine starts tearing it down.

[Happy2BMe]

"They sent me a telegram. They gave me the body."

What an ironic and nightmarish twist of fate for all the Dimrats - the Iranians are literally, no BS, for real greeting our military as true liberators.

Hopefully several certain "bodies" will be delivered up shortly for the world to view.

Someone write a really catch tune about Americans dancing in the streets at the sight of Saddam and his sons no longer being a "problem."

You'r late - EAT THAT AT YOUR NEXT DNC CONVENTION HILLARY CLINTON!

[nutmeg]

bump

[potlatch]

When I read this on Drudge today, it brought tears to my eyes.

[CyberCowboy777]

E-mail these stories to your local media!

Go here to find your local media.

Type in your Zipcode.

http://www.capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/

[harpo11]

My hopes are that the Iraqi people have not been so oppressed, suppressed, and brutally held in submission that they have forgotten how to cheer for something other than being forced to cheer for Saddam. Many have never known freedom their entire lives.

[demosthenes the elder]

bump so I can find it again readily

[Grampa Dave]

100,000 Freepers should send this to the Da$$hole and every left winger who has helped Saddam and made us late to their freedom party!

[truth_seeker]

A farmer, Haider, who knew one of the men killed, Sharif Badoun, said: "Killing some is worth it, to end the injustice and suffering."

My sentiments, exactly. An Iraqi peasant farmer is capable of mounting the moral argument, which is beyond the reach of the world leftists, the intellectual elites, many churches, far too many muslims and arabs.