The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Brig. Gen. William Mitchell - Dec. 15th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

You're welcome Snippy.

We came up with some other good people to cover while you were here, now I just have to get off my butt and get them done

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. Darksheare sent me that one in my mail. I love it! Now that's a fun snow globe. Ha!

[Darksheare]

That it is.
Morning.
Heard that it's still snowing up bentfeather's way.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning SCDogPapa, I'm back home again on Eastern time now. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Hey larry. Good morning from the Foxhole.

[snippy_about_it]

We came up with some other good people to cover while you were here, now I just have to get off my butt and get them done

I know the feeling. Getting back into a "routine" will be tough. I sure enjoyed your company and I'm going to miss you.

[SAMWolf]

It's nice to get to do things I don't find the time to do otherwise. Maybe you should come up more often. :-)

[Valin]

He might want to get in touch with "This Old House".

[Valin]

Letters to the editor Todays Mpls (red) Star Tribune
Published December 15, 2003


One of our greatest days


The capture of Saddam Hussein will rank as one of the three greatest moments in the fight for freedom: the end of World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis and now the capture of Saddam.

May God bless all the innocent victims of this battle. Their sacrifice will not have been in vain. Freedom does not come cheaply but is well worth the cost. As Thomas Jefferson wrote so eloquently many years ago, "We pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

May God also bless President Bush and our military men and women who have put their lives on the line for freedom.

Last of all, God bless America, the greatest nation ever on the face of the earth.

Harold Olson, Circle Pines.


Victory in unnecessary war


We are being told that Saddam Hussein has been captured alive by U.S. forces. This is indeed great news for the people of Iraq -- there will no longer be the fear that he may return to power. He was indeed a dreadful dictator.

But let us not forget today the premise by which we, the people of the United States, were sold this war on Iraq and the necessity to go after Saddam in the first place -- the imminent threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be found.

We cannot let this capture distract us from the lies and propaganda used to sell this war. We have not found WMD, we have been unable to make links between Saddam and Al Qaida, and the stability and security of Iraq are still greatly in question.

We are going to be paying for this war and reconstruction for the next generation, and we have turned Iraq into the front on terrorism; it was not the front until we occupied the country.

Daniel Arlig, Chanhassen.


Now, where's the WMD?


OK, so we caught the wicked witch of the Mideast. But catching Saddam Hussein doesn't change the fact that we still haven't found the weapons of mass destruction that were the reason we invaded Iraq in the first place.

Doug Williams, Robbinsdale.


Bring down the signs


I have a message for those people who continue to deplore President Bush's strategic objective of a regime change in the Middle East: Now is finally the time to take down those "No War In Iraq" signs.

They no longer serve to proclaim your liberal pacifism. They merely indicate that your head is buried in our prairie loam.

D.B. Haley, Minneapolis.


Next stop: the Hague


The United States should turn Saddam Hussein over to the Hague for trial under international law for crimes against humanity.

The United States has no reason to try Saddam under U.S. law. He has committed no crimes against this country, only against the Iraqi people and other Middle Eastern countries.

But Iraq has no legitimate government and thus is incapable of conducting a fair trial. Turning Saddam over to the Hague would acknowledge the legitimacy of international law -- which this administration has yet to do. It would be a civilized act and still assure that this evil man is punished for his heinous crimes.

In many ways it would be a far greater deterrent to tyranny than allowing him to be ripped to pieces by an Iraqi mob because it would signal that the world is unified against genocide, and will root it out and punish it wherever it occurs.

Robert Veitch, Minneapolis.


Raining on Bush's parade


It will be interesting to see what negative spin the mindless Democrats will offer on the capture of Saddam Hussein. It is inevitable!

Curt Anderson, Henning, Minn.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning Matthew. It's 29 degrees in Ohio this morning, we have 3 inches of snow and it is chilly. I just returned home yesterday from my vacation with Sam in Oregon. It is warmer where he is and I wish I was still there. It will be winter here until March and I hate it so. I really need to move to a better climate when the job market improves.

Do you have a hangover today, a headache from all the celebrating? LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

It's nice to get to do things I don't find the time to do otherwise.

It was nice to do them together.

Maybe you should come up more often.

I think you're right and I think I will. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Incredible. I agree with what SAM said to me, Saddam should hang, a firing squad is too honorable for him.

I think the new Iraqi government should sentence him to flogging first and then hang him and the leftists in this country and in Europe should remember his atrocities, the left are lovers of communism and it's too bad we cannot silence them while we're at it.

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Even Bob Villa can't help that one.

[snippy_about_it]

Free the Southland BUMP!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

Morning Matt. We have snow in Oregon too, we just keep it on the mountains most of the time.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Valin.

Seems some people still have their Hotel up their Alpha. Reminds me of one of my sayings I quote alot "Some people are just too syupid to live"

[SAMWolf]

Had to believe that the Country that started the airplane craze had no planes of it's own during WWI. We had yoi use french and British planes.