A Day to Remember

Yeah, I've been glued to the TV for hours.

What a superb dose of good news to go with my morning coffee. Rather than just jump on the keyboard and fire off a post filled with my thoughts of joy, I thought I'd sit on things for a while. Just to watch the news, read the other blogs and various news-sites.

There are some big thoughts rolling around and beginning to take shape. This one event is so much more than the fact of his capture. I can feel it way down in my bones. Not in a dreadful sense though. Good things will flow from today's news. Mark this day; it will be known as a turning point, just as Midway was in WWII.

After reading this, I was struck with the scene from the Wizard of Oz, as the "Mighty Oz" was revealed. Saddam is one sick puppy. Image Charles Manson with thirty-four years of virutally unlimted power.

After his capture, Saddam was taken to a holding cell at the Baghdad Airport. He didn’t answer any of the initial questions directly, the official said, and at times seemed less than fully coherent.

He sounded like Howard Dean a democrat.

“They couldn’t get him out at first and had to dig, from either side of the hole,” said the official. The soldiers finally made a large enough passageway to drag him out. When he came out, he looked bedraggled, said the official: “He looked like a homeless man at the bus station.”

He looked like an antiwar protester a democrat.

“We can now determine,” he said, “if he is the mastermind of everything or not.” The official elaborated: “Have we actually cut the head of the snake or is he just an idiot hiding in a hole?”

That, my friends, is the best line of the day.

Although this one sent to me by e-mail, ranks right with it. *grin*

"Honest to God, didn't he look like Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead when they hauled him into the sunlight? Maybe it was his plan to hide in San Francisco with the rest of the burn-outs and old hippies."

Thanks for that one, Valerie!

I'll add my voice to the thousands of happy bloggers out there. Watching the joy of the Iraqis in the street says more than words can convey. I'm reminded of the sense of knowing history was unfolding that I had, watching the Berlin Wall come down. This has been a big, huge day of history.

Give thanks to God for the Fourth Infantry Division, United States Army. Well done. I hope we give those troopers promotions, decorations and a tickertape parade.

Dax says it best: "Just DAMN!"

Yeah.

Comments

[Sam]

You're right - good things will flow!!!

[Pompa]

Don't get too excited yet, there's still plenty o'shit coming from our direction. The lefties are all over this saying Saddam must be braught to Haag, because "The US cannot try to make justice by themselves, they have no right to".
It must be because of all their assistance that they feel they should be a part of it. Bah, the sooner I get out of here, the better!

[Rivrdog]

Here's the plan as I would do it, Pompa, so don't worry about the Left.

Try Saddam in the next month in OUR military tribunal. Fair trial, closed to all TV media. Convict him and sentence him to die.

While maintaining physical control of Saddam, turn him over to the Iraqis for trial in a military, civil or Islamic court, or all three. He will again be sentenced to die.

Let the Hague try him, VIA SATELLITE. We maintain control of his person in territory we control. They convict him and sentence him to prison.

All the trials are done, we confab with the Iraquis and decide who gets to execute him. He is executed by the Iraqis, who hang him on world TV for all the other despots and jihadists to see.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[Persnickety]

Definitely, the Iraqis should get him first. Let him be tried by Iraqis in an Iraq court of law. We can always extradite the pieces later.

[Guy]

The first thing I thought of yesterday as I watched the news of Hussein's capture was this:

The Democrats best hope for winning in 2004 just got checked for head lice live on CNN.

[Valerie]

Texas soldiers from Ft. Hood dug his sorry butt out of the dirt. Too good.

I am glad this vile creature lived long enough to see his even worse offspring sent to hell by the American forces. Pray he drank deep from the well of pain he made so many other Itaqi parents visit.

[Jim]

Y'alls comments rock. Thank you. :-)

Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX

[Key]

"...sounded like Howard Dean."

AHAhahah. I like that.

[Anne]

Great timing -- they will have things mopped up and declared a rousing success in time for the election.

The democrats are probably wondering what in the world they are supposed to do now . . .

[Ms Anna]

The Dems will just continue to chase their own tails. They are trying to learn how to wipe their own ass.

No offense meant to the four-legged dogs of the world.