[maica]

Thanks for the correction. I took a brief 'timeout' from TV last night, and just realized what i was looking at this morning, while I was reading this thread. Still thrilling even in rerun mode. ;^)

[Quilla]

I'm still catching up on the Day 16 thread wanting to read y'all's reactions to the Saddam walking around town movie we were subjected to yesterday. I had taken my mom out to lunch and we were stuck with CNN and no volume in the restaurant - pure torture.

I noticed your post yesterday describing the Nightline commentary about repressive dictators. This comment made so much sense:

"He discussed the clip of the first day that rations were distributed (the near riot dragging boxes off the trucks) when the crowd of mostly children began chanting praise to Saddam. He said that this arm-waving and chanting was the only way that they had been trained into showing enthusiasm for anything."

Thanks for posting it.