Saddam captured, Bush vindicated
December 16, 2003 ~ 12:48 a.m.
I was originally going to write about the unbridled joy caused me by the failure of the most recent European Union summit conference on Europe�s federal constitution. I was also going to write about how much I admired Poland, in defending itself against power-hungry Germany for its full rights in the European Union that it joins in the coming year, and express my rage at Jacques Chirac for wanting to limit Spain and Poland�s powers within the EU. I was going to mention Tony Blair�s role at the EU conference and the stipulations he won from the commission on some of Britain�s sovereignty issues.
And while it is all good that gutsy Poland is uncompromising in its demand for full representation in the EU and is willing to stick it to its former war adversary, and while it is indeed great news that the second conference on this mythical European federal constitution�take my advice and place your faith in dragons instead�has collapsed in bitterness and recrimination, and while it�s all very well for Britain that Tony Blair won his stipulations that the U.K. will not relinquish the right to determine its own taxes, budget and foreign policy in order to take part in this modern day holy grail � then this news broke just as I prepared to sit down to write my piece.
Ladies and gentleman, Saddam Hussein has left the (re)building (of Iraq)!
The 4th Infantry Division of U.S. armed forces found the former Iraqi president and one of history�s most brutal dictators cornered in a hole near the town of Tikrit. President Bush said that Hussein will now �face the justice he denied to millions.� Lt.General Ricardo Sanchez, the military commander in Iraq, oversaw the capture of Maddas and said that he was �a tired man, a man resigned to his fate.� Sanchez added that Hussein �has been cooperative and is talkative.� If this is the case, we have no right to abuse Hussein and it behooves us never to do so, as long as he is complicit while in captivity. The shame of his capture and his disheveled looks as broadcast across the world are more than enough punishment for Maddas at the moment.
Let�s not even talk about what a huge boost this is going to be for President Bush. Just as even some ardent war supporters were turning negative, as the population of Baghdad was turning moody, as Americans were losing faith in Bush, and even Donald Rumsfeld was questioning America�s success in the War on Terror, in a memo he intended only four top-ranking members of the War Party�s elite to see, Saddam was captured, the U.S. presence in Iraq didn�t look so ineffectual after all, and all the questions about weapons of mass destructions suddenly looks irrelevant.
Even Hans Blix, the former U.N. chief weapons inspector, has said that Maddas knows a lot and he can inform us as to the weapon�s whereabouts�or destruction if that so turns out to be true. �We all want to get to the bottom of the barrel,� Blix said.
I was once told several weeks ago that I hoped I felt as stupid as I looked, and that America didn�t have a plan for Iraq�and what fucking plan did we have for Haiti or Somalia or Yugolslavia? Oh, but I forget, Clinton didn�t start war, he just intervened , and if Gore had got the highest office in the land, we�d have fought a much more worthy war like Liberia. You people are pathetic.
Let me reiterate, right here, right now, that if you were an anti-war agitator, if you burned American flags, if you portrayed Bush as Hitler, that if you carried placards that let the world know that the liberation of Iraq was �Not In Your Name,� then leave the celebration over Saddam Hussein�s capture to those who got it right in the first place, you anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist, Jackass-voting twerps.
Saddam is in U.S. hands. Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder both congratulated Bush on his capture of Saddam (and it must have been hard to speak with all that egg plastered to their faces). Bush�s standing among the American people is going to skyrocket. The Democrats are looking more feeble than ever.
Life is sweet.
� M.E.M.
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