Saddam Capture 'Painful' for Arabs [I love him so much, I can’t stand watching it]

Scotsman ^ | 12-13-03

[SJackson]

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Saddam Capture 'Painful' for Arabs

For many ordinary Palestinians, the TV footage of a dishevelled Saddam obediently submitting to a medical exam by his US captors was painful to watch: it sealed the defeat of the one Arab leader they felt always stood by them.

Saddam should have put up a fight or committed suicide, they said, and his surrender is a stain on Arab honour.

“It is a big defeat for all Arabs and Muslims,” said Raji Hassan, 29, watching TV with friends in a Gaza City coffee shop.

The Palestinian Authority declined official comment.

While Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had supported Saddam in the 1991 Gulf War, his government had been careful to stay on the sidelines during the US-led invasion of Iraq this year.

Mohammed Horani, a legislator from Arafat’s ruling Fatah movement, said he expected many Palestinians and Arabs to have mixed feelings.

“Saddam is a dictator and the Iraqi people suffered under him, but on the other hand, it was the (American) occupation that caught him,” he said. “There will be a sense of confusion in the public.”

Horani said he had expected Saddam to be more courageous. ”I had expected him to have fought back, or at least end his life,” he said. “But then again, all dictators are cowards.”

During the past three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Saddam sent millions of dollars to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam attacked Israel with 39 Scud missiles, in the failed hope of breaking up an Arab coalition against him.

When the Iraqi missiles flew over the West Bank, en route to targets in Israel, Palestinians would often cheer.

Today, about a dozen men were playing pool in Gaza City hall while the news was being broadcast on a television in the corner. No one even turned to look at the television.

“I love him so much, I can’t stand watching it while he’s in custody,” Raafat Logman, 23, said as he was shooting pool. “We are surprised. We are so sad,” said Sameh Aloul, 22

[Travis McGee]

Ain't it great!

[Mr. Silverback]

SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED

WOO-HOO, OOH-RAH, HOO-AH AND HALLELUJAH!!!

This one's for Rafat Abdulamajeed Muhammad!!!

I'm supposed to be studying...But I couldn't imagine being off FR today, a day I have waited for since 1990, for two-fifths of my life! I have wanted this bag of used bowel movement made to answer for his crimes for a very long time, and I'm holding back tears right now thinking about all those people in Hallabjah. But hey...that doesn’t mean there’s no room for humor!

A joke written by my lovely wife, Rambette66

Santa.

Bad Santa

Really, Really Bad Santa.

Woo-hoo!

[Sender]

That last guy is the WORST Santa I've ever seen! He looks like he would feed you into a wood chipper.

[SwinneySwitch]

Sad-man has let them down soo many times!

Why don't they let the free Iraqi's explain it to them?;^)

[lobo59]

We would get the same reaction from yasser airfart. It's OK to send the babies of the poor and miserable people which he created in order to have the murderous terrorist sheep out to die. We would never see the demented one himself take action. It's all talk and blow and no go with arafat too.

For a little frosting on the celebration cake we should take out yasser tomorrow and show the world that we are serious about ending the era of terror.

[gathersnomoss]

What a great birthday gift too.

[JediJones]

[Canadian Outrage]

OH how the Mighty have fallen!! (Lice anyone?) Did ya see them picking through his hair?

[O Neill]

Christian Holiday cheer....

On the first day of Christmas,
My true Lord gave to me:
A grubby Saddam in an earthenware hole.

On the second day of Christmas,
My true Lord gave to me:
Two screeching Hitlery doves...
And a grubby Saddam in an earthenware hole.

On the third day of Christmas,
My true Lord gave to me:
Three mopey, biased anchormen...
Two Hitlery doves...
And a grubby Saddam in an earthenware hole!

...developing...

[wayoverontheright]

For many ordinary Palestinians, the TV footage of a dishevelled Saddam obediently submitting to a medical exam by his US captors was painful to watch:

As painful perhaps as when we watched as Arabs celebrated in the streets on 9-11.

Humiliation, as Victor Davis Hanson points out, is the key to defeating terror, and pain is the father of humiliation.

“It is a big defeat for all Arabs and Muslims,” said Raji Hassan, 29, watching TV with friends in a Gaza City coffee shop.

You hear that you idiots on the left? There simply could be no defeat of terror that didn't include the humiliation of the whole region with the pics of the subjugation of their principal boogeyman to the once disrespected, now feared Great Satan.

[Victoria Delsoul]

[gathersnomoss]

Thanks for the thought.