Goodbye Saddam

lionlove · #1 04-09-2003, 10:56 AM

Anyone else watching the news right now? Big statue of Saddam about to come down. Looks like Baghdad is now in America's control.

MuAZD · #2 04-09-2003, 11:07 AM

It tore him right in half!

It doesn't even matter to me anymore why we went into Iraq. Seeing the elation in the Iraqi people this morning just reinforced my support for this war.

SATX*APhi · #3 04-09-2003, 11:10 AM

I saw some footage before I came into work. Is it down yet? I am sure to see replays of it on tonight's news. Oh wait, I'll be working. Hmm, maybe pics on www.cnn.com

ZTAMich · #4 04-09-2003, 11:47 AM

The whole thing just gives me chills....

texas*princess · #5 04-09-2003, 12:58 PM

I think this is cool & all, and maybe I'm just paranoid.. but isn't it kind of scary how LITTLE opposition they ran into for the 'Battle of Bagdad'?

Blaire · #6 04-09-2003, 02:07 PM

I think the main reason they didn't run into any oposition is because the Iraqi leaders are all gone...the majority of the soliders fighting for Iraq were told if they didn't fight, their family members would be killed. Well, no ones' left to carry out that threat, so no ones fighting. Plus, I believe that the poorest people live on the outskirts of Baghdad and they were tired of being treated so badly by Saddam and his regime. I'm not sure if the "war is over" but I can at least breathe a little eaiser and cross my fingers that my boyfriend is going to come home sooner than I thought.

God bless,
Blaire

Peaches-n-Cream · #7 04-09-2003, 04:56 PM

God Bless America!

Remember that there are still thousands of troops in Iraq and Kuwait including POW's.

justamom · #8 04-09-2003, 05:00 PM

I've been watching all this most of the day. The happiness they are feeling is a beautiful thing. The Iraqi ambassador to the UN
stated-The game is over. I hope the Iraqi people will live in peace.

Rumsfield has stated there is still a hard fight ahead. Those who are most loyal to Saddam will still try to kill our soldiers and possibly those who celebrate the end of the regime.

Did y'all hear about the bunkers? Yesterday they had intelligence that there was fighting underground. Some of the bunkers are layered and go as far as 80 ft. deep with aisles wide enough for a tank. They also said one fear was the possibility of launching a chem/bio attack from underneath. Many tunnels connect and run though the Baghdad due to an undeveloped subway system.
They also found a lot of ammo.

So, who thinks Saddam is sipping a Pina Colada on the Mediterranean?

Peaches-n-Cream · #9 04-09-2003, 05:42 PM

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Originally posted by justamom

So, who thinks Saddam is sipping a Pina Colada on the Mediterranean?

Saddam is drinking with Hitler, Pol Pot, Mussolini, and Satan.

AXJules · #10 04-09-2003, 05:49 PM

Personally I see Saddam and Osama chillin' at some sleazy strip club in Hong Kong, contracting SARS.
I just don't think they're dead yet.

Kevin · #11 04-09-2003, 06:34 PM

Isn't it funny how everyone that was associated with the old regime is disavowing it? Anyone catch the Iraqi rep to the UN saying that he has nothing to do with Saddam?

Look for France to offer him asylum.

Hootie · #12 04-09-2003, 07:10 PM

I saw the footage this morning while I got ready for work. It was such stricking footage...to see them rally in the streets, then attack the statue with shoes (which is an insult in their culture) and then to see them tear it down. It reminded me of the Berlin Wall coming down.

lifesaver · #13 04-09-2003, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Hootie
I saw the footage this morning while I got ready for work. It was such stricking footage...to see them rally in the streets, then attack the statue with shoes (which is an insult in their culture) and then to see them tear it down. It reminded me of the Berlin Wall coming down.

I was late to work because I couldnt tear myself away from the footage. You had the sense that it was a moment in history and one of those images we'd see repeated for a long tiem to come, and one that will be added to the imagry of the world. It was a very powerful visual as we say in the PR game.

Peaches-n-Cream · #14 04-09-2003, 08:02 PM

It really is an historic moment. It is like the Berlin Wall coming down or the fall of the USSR when they dragged Stalin through the streets.

AlphaSigOU · #15 04-09-2003, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by Cream
It really is an historic moment. It is like the Berlin Wall coming down or the fall of the USSR when they dragged Stalin through the streets.

Well... not quite exactly

I think you got Mussolini's fate mixed up with Stalin's.

Mussolini and his mistress were captured by Italian partisans while trying to escape to Switzerland. Both were shot on the spot by firing squad; the following morning the bodies were taken to the main square in Milan and hung by the heels -- allowing a little modesty for Clara Petacci; someone tied a belt around the bottom of her skirt so it wouldn't ride up (down?) when she was hung up. After a brief period of public display, they were cut down and hacked to pieces by the crowd.

Stalin, on the other hand, died a natural death and buried next to Lenin in Red Square. Within the year, Nikita Khrushchev was well in the process of de-Stalinizing the Soviet Union, and ol' 'Joe Steel' (the literal translation of his name; his real name was Josef Vissarionovich Dzugashvili) got evicted from Lenin's tomb.

On the other hand, when Communism ended in the former Soviet Union, the people knocked down as many statues and pictures of Lenin and other Commie cronies as they could find; one particular one stands out in my mind: the toppling of Cheka founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky at the square named after him in front of KGB headquarters. (The Cheka later became the KGB; in Russian slang a 'chekist' refers to a member of the secret police or their network of stool-pigeons -- current Russian president Vladimir Putin got his start in the KGB). And what was across KGB HQ? A toy store, Detsky Mir (Children's World)!)