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Saddam executes 60 Iraqi officers
The Scotsman ^
| Thu 27 Mar 2003
| Paul Gallagher
Posted on 03/26/2003 10:11:28 PM PST by frosty snowman
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To: Lib-Lickers 2
He may be. All it takes to order executions is another Baathist with an nasty disposition to fill the void.
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posted on
03/26/2003 10:42:54 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: frosty snowman
How very Salinesque of saddom.
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posted on
03/26/2003 10:46:52 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
To: frosty snowman
Saddam, why are you so mad, man? Saddam, you're a madman! You're a mad, mad, man. Man, you're a mad man! - James Carville
For anyone that remembers the Rush Limbaugh Ken Starr "Mad Man" skit.
To: frosty snowman
Time to really put the pressure on. The more professional military officers are replaced by SS types, the more mistakes will be made.
To: piasa
Executing your own people is generally not a good way to win friends and influence people. Actually it seems to work pretty well ---I doubt Saddam is much different than Hitler or Stalin and he influenced many until we had to put a stop to it. All the so-called peace protestors seem to be pretty favorably influenced by Saddam. And Hollywood types too.
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posted on
03/26/2003 11:00:46 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: frosty snowman
So Satan.... I mean Sadam is alive??
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posted on
03/26/2003 11:09:44 PM PST
by
diamond6
("Everyone who is for abortion HAS been born." Ronald Reagan)
To: frosty snowman
SADDAM Hussein has executed 60 army officers... the purge of the army higher ranks took place at the weekend. Nonsense. Hussein is dead. This is inertia. It is another sign of the brutality of the Hussein regime. They don't know how to do anything else, so they are falling back on what they do know what to do.
I saw the Al Jazeera video the other day. It was not the work of a fanatical group that went wild. I'm convinced that the people who did what they did had done it before and knew what they were doing. What happened to the soldiers of the 105 mech is what happens to average Iraqi citizens if they don't cooperate with the whims of the Iraqi government.
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
Saddam orders via a pre-disarmament activities videotape the purging of another 5 dozen of his officers. Put in Volumes II, III, IV, etc. of this multi-tape set.
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posted on
03/26/2003 11:19:55 PM PST
by
Chummy
To: Pan_Yans Wife
My husband mentioned something along those lines.He said that the world will always be ruled by military power. Those who have the most guns, rule the world.The question is, do you rule the world for the side of good, and improve the world?Or do you rule for the side of evil, and try to destroy the world? Sadly, I think the question is more complex than that. How do you, assuming you've gone for the "side of good" (and we won't dig into that), ensure the continuity of your rule for the "side of good"? How do you keep the Bill, or for that matter Hillary, Clintons from taking over?
Perhaps the problem is in the word "rule." A policeman doesn't "rule" his beat, but he can work to maintain civil order in it. If we're careful to make that distinction, we can tell when a President Clinton is crossing the line.
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posted on
03/26/2003 11:20:03 PM PST
by
Eala
To: frosty snowman
He's reaching now...
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posted on
03/26/2003 11:59:45 PM PST
by
Mystix
(Ding dong saddam is gone, which saddam, the evil saddam. Ding dong.....)
To: frosty snowman
This comes from the Democratic Underground:
Heaven forbid if these Iraqis actually wanted to defend their country. We can't have that can we? When bombs drop on civilian quarters of Baghdad, it's Saddam killing his own people. When Iraqi soldiers charge coalition tanks with rifles, it's the evil Fadayeens threatening to kill the conscripts. When civilians in Basra gets killed it's the Iraqis shooting mortars at their own people... At this rate, pretty soon, we are going to have Saddam committing genocide of his own people while being invaded by the coalition. All at the same time... Have you noticed the American media always refer to Iraqi soldiers as "forces that are loyal to Saddam" as if they are somehow illegitimate. As for the soldiers fleeing the battle, don't army commanders have right to excute deserters?
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posted on
03/27/2003 12:20:18 AM PST
by
ambrose
To: frosty snowman
The regulars should just frag these guys.
To: JasonC
You're right. Good call:
You must understand, evil is stupid in predictable ways. Evil men think that immorality of itself generates almost magical power, that all forms of decency are weaknesses. It is a superstition.
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:01:13 AM PST
by
GOPJ
To: Political Junkie Too
You're right. It was done in the fashion of men who had lost conscience many murders before. Good catch.
What happened to the soldiers of the 105 mech is what happens to average Iraqi citizens if they don't cooperate with the whims of the Iraqi government. -PJ
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:08:12 AM PST
by
GOPJ
To: Political Junkie Too
You're right. It was done in the fashion of men who had lost conscience many murders before. Good catch.
What happened to the soldiers of the 105 mech is what happens to average Iraqi citizens if they don't cooperate with the whims of the Iraqi government. -PJ
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:08:13 AM PST
by
GOPJ
To: frosty snowman
Iraq has the only military in the world where men don't want to be promoted to General. I can just picture a group of Iraqi Colonels at the meeting. "You're the new General! No, you are. Please, I insist that you take it" as they pass the rank epaulets around like a hot potato. Then the loser looks at the new rank and wonders if Saddam has any without bullet holes.
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:15:43 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
("Read Hillary's hips. I never had sex with that woman.")
To: frosty snowman
One thing's for certain.....
It's the beginning of the end for any organized Iraqi resistance.
To: frosty snowman
And they bitch at us over 4 people in a market...
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posted on
03/27/2003 4:13:07 AM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: frosty snowman
And they bitch at us over 14 people in a market...
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posted on
03/27/2003 4:13:18 AM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: Eala
I was speaking in terms of military might, refering to good versus evil, the West vs. the Axis of Evil, the Coaliton Forces against Iraq, the Cold War, etc.
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posted on
03/27/2003 4:34:51 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
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