US Captures No. 4 on the Iraq List...

[headscratcher4]

Whether you approved of the war or not, if true, this has to be a good thing...a little like capturing Himmler or Goering.....if the bodies in the pits across Iraq are any indication, this is not a nice guy....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20030618/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_leader_captured_4

[arcticpenguin]

I thought it was interesting in that this was one of the highest ranking cards caught. Before this it's been, "we got #39 on the list" or "#47".

It would be nice to see a royal flush...

[Jon_in_london]

Jolly good!

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
Whether you approved of the war or not, if true, this has to be a good thing...a little like capturing Himmler or Goering.....

Or Bush, Ashcroft or Powell.

(sorry, just couldn't resist.)

[Tmy]

What happens to all these playing card guys?? Is it a crime to work for Saddams government?

[aerocontrols]

Headscratcher:

Thought you might get a kick out of Pimpmaster Kim Jong 'Superfly' Il here:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20030618/mdf299220.jpg

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by aerocontrols
Headscratcher:

Thought you might get a kick out of Pimpmaster Kim Jong 'Superfly' Il here:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20030618/mdf299220.jpg
If they were holding musical instruments they might look pretty cool.

[aerocontrols]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin

If they were holding musical instruments they might look pretty cool.

They're too cool for instruments. They need both hands free to handle their ladies and their '40s.

[Thumper]

Originally posted by Tmy
What happens to all these playing card guys?? Is it a crime to work for Saddams government?

That's a very good question. Are all these people going to be held for war crimes? Who is going to try them? The US? Iraq? The consequences of that answer are staggering, considering what's happening in Belgium now. :)

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by Tmy
What happens to all these playing card guys?? Is it a crime to work for Saddams government?


Apparently that is part of the reason for Bush's carefully worded victory speech, about the first phase of it being over, not the war itself. According to International Law, once you win, you aren't supposed to be able to hold anyone you like. You can prosecute war criminals, but not just hold people without due process.

[peptoabysmal]

He should be tried as a war criminal and be given the firing squad. Then again, maybe we'll let him plea bargain for info on where those WMD's have gotten off to, in which case he gets to live out his life in a 4 x 4 solitary cell.

[Earthborn]

Funny thing is, number 3 (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/mss_archives.html) could have been caught much earlier, but he stayed at his Aunts house:
29 April - ABC News Australia quotes Iraqi Kurdish official to say that M.S.S. is hiding at his aunt's house in Baghdad and negotiating his arrest....;)

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by arcticpenguin

If they were holding musical instruments they might look pretty cool.

The Chinese version of Los Lobos...

[Graham]

Originally posted by Kodiak


The Chinese version of Los Lobos...


Psst . . . Korean ;)

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by Earthborn
Funny thing is, number 3 (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/mss_archives.html) could have been caught much earlier, but he stayed at his Aunts house:;)

I thought number 3 was one of Saddam's sons, and the Iraq information minister wasn't anywhere in the deck of 52. (Hence the jokes that were circulating around that he couldn't even get himself arrested.)

[rikzilla]

Originally posted by Tmy
What happens to all these playing card guys?? Is it a crime to work for Saddams government?

One word: Nuremburg.
cockney accent /on
'opefully they'll all end up doing the old gallows morris dance, like what they richly deserves!
cockney accent /off

[aerocontrols]

Originally posted by Segnosaur


I thought number 3 was one of Saddam's sons, and the Iraq information minister wasn't anywhere in the deck of 52. (Hence the jokes that were circulating around that he couldn't even get himself arrested.)

Yup (http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/local/chi-030414iraqminister-story,0,1615763.story)

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by Graham



Psst . . . Korean ;)

Whatever :D

[headscratcher4]

Originally posted by Kodiak


The Chinese version of Los Lobos...

My thought exactly! LOL!:D