Huzington
16th December 2003, 09:33 PM
We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole!
-Michael Moore
Sunday, December 14th, 2003
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really missed us. Man, he sure looked bad! But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.
America used to like Saddam. We LOVED Saddam. We funded him. We armed him. We helped him gas Iranian troops.
But then he screwed up. … http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
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"The Tyrant Is Now A Prisoner"
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
15 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5378.htm
So they got Saddam at last. Unkempt, his tired eyes betraying defeat; even the $750,000 in cash found in his hole in the ground demeaned him.
Saddam in chains; maybe not literally, but he looked in that extraordinary videotape yesterday like a prisoner of ancient Rome, the barbarian at last cornered, the hand caressing the scraggy beard. All those ghosts - of gassed Iranians and Kurds, of Shias gunned into the mass graves of Karbala, of the prisoners dying under excruciating torture in the villas of Saddam's secret police - must surely have witnessed something of this.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5378.htm
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Saddam's Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings From Insurgents
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
15 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5376.htm
In Fallujah, in Ramadi, in other centres of Sunni power in Iraq, the anti-occupation rising will continue. The system of attacks and the frighteningly fast-growing sophistication of the insurgents is bound up with the Committee of the Faith, a group of Wahabi-based Sunni Muslims who now plan their attacks on American occupation troops between Mosul and the city of Hilla, 50 miles south of Baghdad. Even before the overthrow of the Baathist regime, these groups, permitted by Saddam in the hope that they could drain off Sunni Islamic militancy, were planning the mukawama - the resistance against foreign occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5376.htm
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Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam: Ex-dictator Demands Back Pay from Baker
Greg Palast
14th December 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5374.htm
Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at approximately 8:30pm Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer III.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5374.htm
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The Joys Of Empire
Written by Mark Jensen
12/14/03
UFPPC
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5373.htm
Americans awoke on Sunday, Dec. 14, to the news that Saddam Hussein had been captured on the evening of the day before in Iraq (at about 9:30 a.m. PST on Saturday, Dec. 13) in a "spider hole" (as Gen. Sanchez called it) beneath the courtyard of a small rural dwelling south of Tikrit, where the fallen Iraqi tyrant was born about 65 years ago. The Iraqis listening to the initial announcement by Jerry Bremer erupted in joyful shouting. A few hours later President Bush made a televised statement from the White House, saying: "The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq."
But will the capture of the man designated by the Pentagon as the "Ace of Spades" end the Iraqi resistance? Will the Iraqi people now embrace the Bush administration's conception of "freedom"?
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US Eyes Up Saddam's Baghdad Palace As Site For Embassy
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
14 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5377.htm
Saddam Hussein's massive presidential palace in Baghdad - with its imperial domes and marble columns and swimming pools - may soon be turned into America's new embassy in Iraq.
Yet outside its protective walls of reinforced concrete, the petrol queues now stretch for two miles and the power still flickers on for just 12 hours a day. In Baghdad these days, hubris and folly go hand in hand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5377.htm
-Michael Moore
Sunday, December 14th, 2003
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really missed us. Man, he sure looked bad! But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.
America used to like Saddam. We LOVED Saddam. We funded him. We armed him. We helped him gas Iranian troops.
But then he screwed up. … http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php
===================
"The Tyrant Is Now A Prisoner"
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
15 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5378.htm
So they got Saddam at last. Unkempt, his tired eyes betraying defeat; even the $750,000 in cash found in his hole in the ground demeaned him.
Saddam in chains; maybe not literally, but he looked in that extraordinary videotape yesterday like a prisoner of ancient Rome, the barbarian at last cornered, the hand caressing the scraggy beard. All those ghosts - of gassed Iranians and Kurds, of Shias gunned into the mass graves of Karbala, of the prisoners dying under excruciating torture in the villas of Saddam's secret police - must surely have witnessed something of this.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5378.htm
==================
Saddam's Capture Will Not Stop The Relentless Killings From Insurgents
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
15 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5376.htm
In Fallujah, in Ramadi, in other centres of Sunni power in Iraq, the anti-occupation rising will continue. The system of attacks and the frighteningly fast-growing sophistication of the insurgents is bound up with the Committee of the Faith, a group of Wahabi-based Sunni Muslims who now plan their attacks on American occupation troops between Mosul and the city of Hilla, 50 miles south of Baghdad. Even before the overthrow of the Baathist regime, these groups, permitted by Saddam in the hope that they could drain off Sunni Islamic militancy, were planning the mukawama - the resistance against foreign occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5376.htm
==================
Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam: Ex-dictator Demands Back Pay from Baker
Greg Palast
14th December 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5374.htm
Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at approximately 8:30pm Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer III.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5374.htm
==================
The Joys Of Empire
Written by Mark Jensen
12/14/03
UFPPC
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5373.htm
Americans awoke on Sunday, Dec. 14, to the news that Saddam Hussein had been captured on the evening of the day before in Iraq (at about 9:30 a.m. PST on Saturday, Dec. 13) in a "spider hole" (as Gen. Sanchez called it) beneath the courtyard of a small rural dwelling south of Tikrit, where the fallen Iraqi tyrant was born about 65 years ago. The Iraqis listening to the initial announcement by Jerry Bremer erupted in joyful shouting. A few hours later President Bush made a televised statement from the White House, saying: "The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq."
But will the capture of the man designated by the Pentagon as the "Ace of Spades" end the Iraqi resistance? Will the Iraqi people now embrace the Bush administration's conception of "freedom"?
==================
US Eyes Up Saddam's Baghdad Palace As Site For Embassy
Robert Fisk in Baghdad
14 December 2003
The Independent
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5377.htm
Saddam Hussein's massive presidential palace in Baghdad - with its imperial domes and marble columns and swimming pools - may soon be turned into America's new embassy in Iraq.
Yet outside its protective walls of reinforced concrete, the petrol queues now stretch for two miles and the power still flickers on for just 12 hours a day. In Baghdad these days, hubris and folly go hand in hand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5377.htm