Saddam's Bodyguards Captured in Tikrit

Fox News ^ | 7/25/03 | Brett Baier

[My2Cents]

WASHINGTON

[My2Cents]

More good news for the good guys. More bad news for the Baath and Democrat Parties

[goldstategop]

Yep. The Democrat and Baath Party street are in gloom.

[Swanks]

Hmmm. Removing the pawns and knights off the chessboard. The King is looking more and more vulnerable. Checkmate, soon if the King is alive...

[anniegetyourgun]

Hey...why are you posting this important stuff when there's still that little sentence in the State of the Union address to deal with? /sarcasm

[oceanview]

if its really his "personal security team", why aren't they with him? you would think that would be the first question they would ask these guys. what the story doesn't say is more important then what it says.

[Pro-Bush]

Odierno said U.S. troops also have spoken with one of Saddam's wives.

I bet they did!

[My2Cents]

With his bodyguards and sons now out of the way, Saddam's more exposed than Arnold's patootie in "Terminator 3."

[MEG33]

Right...dead sons and captured body guards of Saddam should not deter us from the 16 word discussion!...;)

[My2Cents]

LOL...Yes, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that Iraq had a nuclear program.

[Normal4me]

Guess old daddy won't be attending the funerals of his sons? What a shame...</sarcasm>

[anniegetyourgun]

Yeah, I hear she's so ugly that Saddam took her to work with him just so he wouldn't have to kiss her goodbye in the morning. Or maybe it was so she wouldn't kill him when he turned his hairy back.

[Davea]

Gen. Franks predicts Saddam capture within 60 days

Newsday ^ | 7/24/03

Posted on 07/24/2003 9:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone

GROTON, Conn. -- Gen. Tommy Franks, who commanded U.S. forces in the war with Iraq, predicts Saddam Hussein will be found within 60 days, and says the U.S. military will be in Iraq for the long haul.

Speaking Wednesday at a conference on children in military families, Franks said Iraqi hatred of Saddam led to tips about where his two sons were hiding. The sons, Odai and Qusai, were killed Tuesday in a shootout with American forces.

"If Saddam is alive, they will turn him in as well," said Franks. "I'll even put a timeline on it. I suspect within 60 days Saddam will be confirmed dead or he'll be in custody."

Earlier this month Franks handed over leadership of the U.S. Central Command, which is in charge of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He retires Aug. 1.

While Franks has left the Middle East, he told conventioneers that American forces are not going to follow him home anytime soon.

"They're going to be there for a while," Franks predicted. "They're going to be subjected to heat and danger, every day, for a while."

He dismissed recent criticism that the reasons for the war with Iraq were shortsighted.

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Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--franksspeech0724jul24,0,7541425.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

[CarmelValleyite]

tick...tick...tick...

[Enterprise]

Things are getting hard for the Baathacrats these days.

[anniegetyourgun]

"He dismissed recent criticism that the reasons for the war with Iraq were shortsighted."

And can you blame him for not wanting to waste time with such idiocy?

[Dog]

I have this feeling Saddam is dead. I have nothing to base this on ......just a feeling.

[My2Cents]

I have a gut feeling it won't take that long. Wouldn't it be great if we nailed Saddam, and issued a huge comprehensive report on his WMD program on the same day?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Odierno said U.S. troops also have spoken with one of Saddam's wives."

I wonder if it was her, "little children," we, "murdered," the other day?

[Enterprise]

"Guess old daddy won't be attending the funerals of his sons? What a shame...

Maybe fate will be kind and he can soon be buried with them at least!

[My2Cents]

Actually, when we heard his sons were killed, and daddy wasn't with them, I thought this was a strong indication that Saddam was already a grease spot at the bottom of a crater.