SADDAMFREUDE WATCH

andrewsullivan.com ^ | 12/14/03 | Andrew Sullivan

[livesbygrace]

Readers are invited to send in the most strained and mealy-mouthed statements from the devastated press and anti-war politicians and activists following the capture of Saddam. First up: Saddam's paid-up British anti-war activist, George Galloway: "This will not stop the Iraqi resistance. if anything, it may set the resistance free, if you like, from the cloud of Saddam Hussein, and transform it into a purely national resistance movement without the charge that it's being controlled from behind by the deposed president." Galloway must be worried sick about what Saddam might tell the coalition. So must Chirac. - 4:23:59 PM

[upcountry miss]

On Hard Ball, last night, the Democratic Strategist (I forget his name) made the remark that Saddam received better medical attention than the poor in this country. To which Peggy Nunan replied, "if you believe checking for lice and retrieving DNA samples constitutes "good medical care," I beg to differ with you."

[visualops]

From Newsday.com (linked at Drudge)-

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who earned headlines across the globe last year for criticizing President Bush while in Baghdad, is enmeshed in a new controversy over remarks he made about the capture of Saddam Hussein.

In an interview Monday with a Seattle radio station, McDermott said the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator "a long time ago if they wanted."

Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said, "Yeah. Oh, yeah."

McDermott went on to say, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing."

When interviewer Dave Ross asked again if he meant to imply the Bush administration timed the capture for political reasons, McDermott said: "I don't know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him.

"It's funny," McDermott added, "when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something."
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McDermott, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, called the timing of Saddam's capture suspicious but said he was not alleging it had been intentionally delayed.

"Everything was going wrong, and they got a real Christmas gift, if you will, in that the troops did a magnificent job and found" Saddam, he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-saddam-mcdermott,0,2235697,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[DooDahhhh]

If they do have Ubl and "pull him out just before the election" more power to em!

[dighton]

James Carroll, as anyone might have predicted.

[dighton]

"I felt pity to see this man destroyed, (the military) looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures."

-- Cardinal Renato Martino.

[general_re]

On the morning of the 26th, the day after Violeta Chamorro's victory over Danny Ortega, I walked into the Inter-Continental hotel in Managua and Bianca Jagger was sitting alone in the lobby. Bianca had been ubiquitous during the election campaign: There was Bianca looking smart in an unconstructed linen jacket and yellow socks to match, Bianca looking serious with press pass and camera, Bianca looking thoughtful listening to Jimmy Carter, Bianca looking concerned conferring with Senator Christopher Dodd, Bianca looking committed in simple tennis shoes and neatly mussed hair, Bianca looking important wearing sunglasses after dark. But this morning Bianca looked . . . her age. Here we had a not very bright, fortyish, discarded rock-star wife, trapped in the lonely hell of the formerly cute — one bummed-out show-biz lefty.

I was feeling great myself, ready to turn somersaults over the Ortega defeat, full of good cheer and pleased with all the world. But then the forlorn, sagging little shape of Bianca caught my eye and, all of a sudden, I felt EVEN BETTER.

- P.J. O'Rourke, "The Return Of The Death Of Communism"

[dighton]

Man, what a great find.

Pinging O'Rourke fans.

[Kozak]

I read some liberals comments at a pc help site and some of the liberals think Bush has bin Laden hidden and will "pull him out" just before the election.

Damn, they're on to us! Activate plan B. Warm up Jimmy Hoffa, Hitler and Khomeini

[Kozak]

I saw the Biden piece. He was surpisingly apolitical about the whole deal. The only Dem all day not spinning.

Call me a cynic, but isn't he considering a run in 08?

[thesummerwind]

And Leslie Effin Stahl could not have been more negative interviewing Rummy...if it was a demonrat that did the equivalent, she'd have been lining up for a...

I watched that interview. The very first thing out of Leslie 'Lapdog' Stahl's mouth to Secretary Rumsfeld was, "Does this NOW mean 'Mission Accomplished'?

Right off the bat, she tries to intimate (poorly,) with her obvious voice inflection, that the aircraft carrier event was a bust, and is this Saddam capture a little better! What a sneaky little rat. Leslie Stahl has a dirty past where she has written things (for her bosses) that she knew were perfectly untrue. She is where she is because she is willing to sell her small soul.

The thing that bothers me most about this type of liberal media tool (Stahl) is that we here at FR and other places tend to understand what she did by enunciating "NOW" the way she did, but the millions of less informed and less aware viewers will most likely absorb a subconscious impression from her words that the aircraft carrier event was a failure and a sham.

It sickens me that these tactics occur every day on the mainstream media, and consequently prospective voters are continually swayed to the left. And the final consequence of this continual influence is the eventual ruination of this nation.

The mainstream media continues to be the most effective, relentless, and destructive enemy of this country.

[Kozak]

I’m quite pleased that a monstrous mass murderer (though a former ally to Messrs. Reagan, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld)

Funny how they never mention how Roosevelt and Truman were allied with that mass murderer Stalin.

[Kozak]

The "Sandalista's" now are running the Rat party. Right off a cliff. Major PJ bump!

[general_re]

Well, there's still a long way to go, so let's not get too cocky...

...but it's still a beautiful thing to watch, the self-destruction of the organized left ;)

[Ciexyz]

....the images were clearly intended to shame.

Hey, Newsweek....if the US forces didn't broadcast any images at all, the media would be screaming that we were hiding him away. Waddya want, we should shave him, cut his hair and put him in a $50 suit?

[dighton]

Lewsers performing as expected.

[dighton]

Gnashing of teeth at this garbage dump.

[general_re]

Immediately upon hearing the news frenzy, I decided to wander over to a few of the war hawk websites, and just as I expected, I found unmitigated glee.

Gosh, I wonder who this particular Rockhead had in mind...

[general_re]

Justine's got himself a new publisher for his new book. Wanna be an author yourself? Let Justine's new publisher tell you how...

[aculeus]

...unmitigated glee

Claiming first dibs on this great screen name.

[Susannah]

McDermott has made it to the http://www.famousidiot.com site! Lots of comments about him there. ;^)