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This is an American First [The Capture of Saddam]
Happy Saddam Day!
| By Lazamataz
Posted on 12/14/2003 5:21:02 PM PST by Lazamataz
Has America ever captured the leader of a foreign country that was our enemy before?
- Revolutionary War: Nope.
- 1812 War with Canada: Nope.
- Spanish/American War: Nope.
- World War One: Nope.
- World War Two, Germany: Nope.
- World War Two, Italy: Nope.
- World War Two, Japan: Close, but I don't think we actually took the Emperor into custody.
- Vietnam War: Nope.
This is an unprecedented event. Our behavior will be scrutinized. I have no doubt we will behave honorably -- it is our way -- but this is a precendent-setting event and will probably be the model for all other countries we invade, should the need arise. That is why we should be very careful how we interrogate Saddam. I initially thought turning him over to Mossad was a good idea. I don't think so any more. We should behave mercifully to our vanquished foe, since he is now impotent and it will reflect well upon us throughout the world.
Definitely, do not turn him over the the Hague, or to Iraq, at least not at first.
I believe GITMO would also be a bad idea. His humilation is complete already. Let's treat him no better and no worse than any American prisoner. At the time it is sensible to dispose of him and exact revenge, simply turn him over to Iraq. They'll bloody him and our hands will be clean.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: captured; elvisbinladen; interrogation; movetochat; rat; reddawn; saddam; spiderhole; tikrit; viceisclosed
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To: NewLand
To: Lazamataz
Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Jefferson Davis, Noriega,
102
posted on
12/14/2003 6:33:04 PM PST
by
breakem
To: F16Fighter
"After babbling on initially, predictably the SOB has clammed up. And now he'll be pampered in luxury and advised by International Alan Dershowitz Law Experts until somebody hatches a judicial plan that ensures Hussein's @ss will be fried."
Ah, but we could turn him over to Iraqis/Kurds for interrogation purposes, could we not?
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posted on
12/14/2003 6:34:49 PM PST
by
elli1
To: Lazamataz
Speaking of showing compassion for Saddam...Chris Matthews just asked Dick Gephardt about the disparity in the video that showed a soldier checking Saddam out for head lice and cavities. Instead of the Gephardt emphasizing the difference between us and them...and how we are a compassionate country, he and Chris go off on a tangent about healthcare and how every American should get that kind of care. Talk about dillusional.
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posted on
12/14/2003 6:41:00 PM PST
by
cwb
To: breakem
Sitting BullAboriginal tribesman. Doesn't count.
Geronimo
Aboriginal tribesman. Doesn't count.
Jefferson Davis
Wasn't the United States. Was two different nations: The Union and the Confederacy.
Noriega
This one is more like it. But it still wasn't quite what I think about when I mean a conventional war agaist a conventional enemy.
105
posted on
12/14/2003 6:48:35 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(A poem, by Lazamataz: "What do we do with Saddam, Now that we gottim?")
To: txflake
That's true, but, again, the US did not capture Santa Anna. It was the Texicans, fighting to achieve their independence.
To: Lazamataz
You made my point about Jeff Davis thanks. Isn't Saddam aboriginal? LOL!
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posted on
12/14/2003 6:50:11 PM PST
by
breakem
To: FreedomCalls
great photo!
108
posted on
12/14/2003 6:50:53 PM PST
by
rface
(Ashland, Missouri - ........I am no expert - but I have experience)
To: Lazamataz
"But it still wasn't quite what I think about when I mean a conventional war agaist a conventional enemy."
Won't tell you what I'm thinking!
We don't have conventional wars anymore. Last one was WWII.
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posted on
12/14/2003 6:52:27 PM PST
by
breakem
To: RedBloodedAmerican
He moved to hell recently...
110
posted on
12/14/2003 6:53:26 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(<tag>)
To: mad_as_he$$
UBL is next I hopeHard to catch dried up ooze in cave floor cracks.
He's been dead over 2 years.
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posted on
12/14/2003 6:58:55 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.")
To: Sapper26
"If you want to be completely technical: When Hitler killed himself, he named Jodl as his successor. Jodl did surrender to the Allies, was tried and got a reverse bungee jump"
*BEEEEP*!! wrong answer!! Hitler named Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor. As I recall, Doenitz got a 20-year sentence at Nuremberg.
To: Lazamataz
you killed a really great idea and essay with your damned factsYou could convert to demoncRAT.
Facts "damned" or any other kind would no longer be a problem for you.
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posted on
12/14/2003 7:03:25 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.")
To: Hank Kerchief
"The real ruler in Japan was Hideki Tojo, military ruler, actually a dictator. By that time, the emperor was just a figurehead. We did capture Tojo, and were holding him in a hotel in tokyo when he committed hara-kiri. Hard to set a policy based on that, though."
*BEEEEEP*!! WRONG ANSWER!! (Do some Freepers need remedial history today or what?)
Tojo SHOT himself, BUT WAS SAVED BY US DOCTORS. He was tried for war crimes, convicted and HANGED.
You're welcome. :0)
To: Senator Pardek
As I stated on another forum - at least Hitler had the balls to off himself when he knew the jig was up. At least that's what the Russians told us. I have always hoped that there was a slow, gruesome, alternative to this story.
To: vanmorrison
Yes, notice my handle is not USflake.
116
posted on
12/14/2003 7:16:29 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: Lazamataz
A fair trial followed but a fine hanging sounds about right to me.
117
posted on
12/14/2003 7:31:38 PM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Saturday, 16 August, 2003, 12:42 GMT 13:42 UK
Dictator Idi Amin dies
Amin seized power in a coup
Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Amin, who was variously described as 78 or 80 years old, had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah since 18 July.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3155925.stm
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posted on
12/14/2003 7:35:48 PM PST
by
Valin
(We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.)
To: Lazamataz
Well, during the War on Poverty, not only didn't we capture our enemies, we LET ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT!
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posted on
12/14/2003 7:40:06 PM PST
by
ovrtaxt
( http://www.fairtax.org * Centrist Republicans are the semi-colons of the political keyboard.)
To: Lazamataz
World War Two, Germany: Nope.Tut, tut! Hitler died on April 30, 1945. Admiral Karl Dönitz became Führer at that point. He surrendered to Allied forces on May 7, 1945.
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