Wall of Mouths

Apparently they captured him while he was living in a bunker (surprise). He’s grown a beard and looks kinda scruffy (obviously) but apparently they’ve done DNA tests and it is in fact him.

This is very good news for the Iraqi people and it probably guarantees Dubya Bush the WhiteHouse for another four years.Just because Saddam has been captured i don’t think the attacks on US/UK troops will stop,Al Qaeda and pro Saddam supporters might intensify their attacks as a reaction to Saddams capture.
As for Saddams beard perhaps he grew it because he got a job as Santa.

I didn’t say it justified Bush’s election its just my prediction for the next US elections.

Saddams trial should be interesting.

Bad Karma wrote:

Saddams trial should be interesting.

indeed. tbh I’m quite surprised they didn’t just quietly bump him off when they could - they now have a very big responsibility/liability on their hands, and so far the US haven’t really shown themselves to be much good at these things…

I doubt Saddam was heading some kind of organised anti-Coalition resistance movement.

He’s been living in a small hole, after all, and looks like a slightly confused tramp.

Not surprising really. He ruled Iraq using brutality to achieve respect, and had no real loyalty from the people keeping him in power - just fear. Had the U.S. not invaded Iraq to oust him, one of his closest advisors probably would have done it instead.

With his power infrastructure totally obliterated in the war this year, he’s probably glad the coalition forces got him before one of his ex-lackeys got the chance to blow his brains out. At least this way he’ll be given some rights as a prisoner of war - better than being tortured then killed, I’d wager. :D

I was watching the ITN special earlier on Saddams capture and it said the special forces team that captured him were glad to hand him over because he wouldn’t stop chatting.Maybe now we will find out if these weapons of mass destruction exist or were just an invention to justify going to war.I bet the conditions of Saddams jail tonight are better than the conditions of the prisoners held at Guantanemo Bay.If his trial is held in Iraq its going to be a security nightmare for the Coalition forces.

Yeah, I don’t get where these “weapons of mass destruction” are being hidden. Don’t you think they’d have used them by now? I remember when asked about this, Donald Rumsfeld (or however you spell his name) said “it’s very hard to find something that people are trying to hide from you”. Well… yes. It’s also hard to tie your shoelaces when you don’t have shoes.

I’m slightly annoyed that they catched Saddam, because Duhbya was getting loads of criticism, at least here in Norway (although I’m sure he doesn’t give a flying fuck what anyone in this nation thinks), due to all the losses of American troops after the war had been declared “over”.

Now I can just picture him with a big ol’ smile on his face, standing there with a stetson happy as a pig in mud. I bet this capture will be used to silence his critics. This man isn’t even the fairly elected president and now we’ll have to suffer his stupidity for another 4 years. Fuck.

I’m with you zero :)

I heard on the news that the US forces will make sure he gets to trial so as to not make a martyr of him… we’ll just have to wait and see I suppose.

Did anyone feel that the ‘celebrations’ seen on all of the channels on TV yesterday seemed a little staged?

I’m talking about the one with 20 guys jumping around in the distance with a large sign with some arabian on it.

It just seemed a little fake and staged to me. Something didn’t feel right about it.

Probably just me being paranoid though ;)

im glad they got sadman, but i hope they dont kill him. there are worse things than dieing, they could paralyse him, or put him in isolation. but killing is quick and easy.
but becos the iraqis are choosiing his fate, i fear it may be a death sentence. also i think that another sick thing is that it may even be on t.v.

joseph? wrote:

im glad they got sadman, but i hope they dont kill him. there are worse things than dieing, they could paralyse him, or put him in isolation. but killing is quick and easy.

why should he suffer, though he had done some cruel things, he still was a better leader then bush or blair ever will be,if you add all mureders and tortuerings that happened in the name of the us and uk last 20 years, saddam’s act will be nothing, but of course they can’t be denied and he needs to be punished,if all the american leaders off the last 20 years join saddam

trigger wrote:

let’s just wait and see when bush and blair will be sent to international court for crimes against humanity :mad:
fucking bastards

Which crimes are these?

prisonbreaker wrote:

why should he suffer, though he had done some cruel things, he still was a better leader then bush or blair ever will be,

my dad said sumfing like that, he said that although he shud have sumfing happen to him; he kept the country going and the people needed him, obviously they need someone though, but there must be better leaders than the ones around today. everyone has faults but to me it seems presidents primeminsters etc just don’t do much as they say they do, they lie alot about how they will help us but dont do it. mabye im abit young to understand it at the moment but it does seem to me that everything is about popularity which makes me think wether they really care at all.

do u think saddam realises that hes do cruel things or do u think he actually believes the nasty things hes dun was rite?

zero nero wrote:

bush as a texas governer who signed over 200 sentances of death, human rights me arse!

It amazes me that Bush was pro-death penalty, yet also pro-life. So it’s okay to kill a living human being, but for a woman to get rid of a mass of cells and proteins because SHE HERSELF chooses to, that’s wrong?

I don’t know where everyone on here stands on abortion, but you have to admit, there’s something of a contradiction here. How can you be pro-life and pro-death sentence? The mind boggles.