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Could Saddam Hussein be striking a last-minute deal?
Aljazeera ^
| April 9, 2003
Posted on 04/09/2003 7:23:30 AM PDT by Scoop
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To: Scoop
What's the sourse? Debka-jeera?
To: Scoop
The only deal we should give in is a choice between "long drop" or "short drop"
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:36:04 AM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Credo Quia Absurdum)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
source...
To: Scoop; The Great Satan; Badabing Badaboom; Mitchell; Fred Mertz
Where in Baghdad is the Russian embassy located?
To: Scoop
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:36:52 AM PDT
by
Spruce
To: 3AngelaD
Maybe the Russian sense of irony is so strong that they are thinking about exiling him to Siberia. LOL.. maybe. Russia's best deal is to take Saddam's bribe... then turn him over to the US for a piece of the oil pie.
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:37:44 AM PDT
by
kjam22
To: Scoop
>Could Saddam Hussein be striking a last-minute deal?
I swear, the only
deal I'd want to see would be
the old Trotsky "deal."
And I'd love to see
Saddam's dying wish flame out
just like Trotsky's did...
"The Old Man [Trotsky], exhausted, wounded to death, eyes almost closed, looked in my direction from the narrow hospital bed, moved his right hand feebly. "Joe, you...have. ..notebook?" How many times he had asked me this same question!--but in vigorous tones, with the subtle innuendo he enjoyed at our expense about "American efficiency." Now his voice was thick, words scarcely distinguishable. He spoke with great effort, fighting against the encroaching darkness. I leaned against the bed. His eyes seemed to have lost all that quick flash of mobile intelligence so characteristic of the Old Man. His eyes were fixed, Is if no longer aware of the outside world, and yet I felt his enormous will power holding away the extinguishing darkness, refusing to concede to his foe until he had accomplished one last task. Slowly, haltingly, he dictated, choosing the words of his last message to the working class painfully in English, a language that was foreign to him. On his death-bed he did not let himself forget that his secretary spoke no Russian !
"I am close to death from the blow of a political assassin...struck me down in my room. I struggled with him...we ...entered...talk about French statistics...he struck me... Please say to our friends...I am sure...of the victory...of the Fourth International...Go forward."
He tried to talk more; but the words were incomprehensible. His voice died away, the tired eyes closed. He never regained consciousness. "
[Joseph Hansen With Trotsky to the End]
To: kjam22
Little or no resistance? I thought the Russians were telling us that the Iraqis using antiquated Russian equipment were kicking our butts. Sorry, I guess that was last week's lie.
BTW do you think there is a credibility problem here:
Aljazeera quoting a Russian diplomat?
To: Scoop
DEAD MAN WALKING
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:48:41 AM PDT
by
F16Fighter
(Democrats -- The Party of Stalin and Chiraq)
To: kjam22
It makes sense if you consider that Russia is claiming that all pre-war contracts are still valid and their threat to take the US to international court if we refuse to honor the contracts. They will have Saddam Hussein and his archives to back up their claims. They may even try to set up an Iraqi gov't in exile.
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:53:17 AM PDT
by
Eva
To: Scoop
Iraqi's are celebrating. They are so happy right now.
To: Scoop
I'm sorry, people of the world, saddam is dead.
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posted on
04/09/2003 7:55:12 AM PDT
by
sarasota
To: Scoop
Well, he may be trying to cut a deal now, but he's probably dealing with a Power greater than the U.S now.
To: djharley67
No need. If the Russians were sheltering him, they won't be much longer. That goes for the French, the Germans or any other major country who's been propping him for the last 12 years.
They would prefer to see him dead because he can run his mouth about the cooperation hes been getting from these countries. They have no reason to see him live. He offers nothing anymore. He is only a liability to these assholes.
To: Spruce
The Saddam variation on the "Franco is still dead" routine would be:
"Today, Saddam Hussein was once again possibly killed by a coalition bomb attack. We will await confirmation."
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posted on
04/09/2003 8:05:39 AM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
("Democracy, whiskey! And sexy!")
To: Scoop
This explains the lack of resistance by the Republican Guard and Iraqi forces, No, that lack of resistance is explained by M-16A2's, M203's, Mk-19 grenade lainchers, M-249 squad automatic weapons, M2 HB .50 cal machine guns.......
Walt
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posted on
04/09/2003 8:06:58 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
To: WhiskeyPapa
No, that lack of resistance is explained by M-16A2's, M203's, Mk-19 grenade lainchers, M-249 squad automatic weapons, M2 HB .50 cal machine guns.......It's like Iraqi Bingo.
To: All
They couldn't decide between:
"Saddam might be cutting a deal."And: "Monkeys might fly out of Saddam's butt."
To: Scoop
You know, it would be "wrong" for US troops to violate Russian sovreignty by searching the embassy.
However, if we, I dunno, leaked word to the hundreds and thousands of Iraqi citizens dancing in the streets of Baghdad that Saddam was in the embassy, well...who know what might happen to the embassy building?
I can see Gen. Brooks speaking now: "We were unaware of the lynch mob at the Russian embassy until after Hussein had been killed..."
To: Scoop
The Amends he is trying to put forth are falling on Gods Bad Ear. He is now on the Express to his Hell
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posted on
04/09/2003 8:27:51 AM PDT
by
cav68
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