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Putting an end to the Saddam problem [Lileks]
Newhouse News ^ | January 3, 2007 | James Lileks

Posted on 01/04/2007 8:02:08 AM PST by Constitution Day

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1 posted on 01/04/2007 8:02:09 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day
"He held the country together!" Well, if President Bush gassed New York and California and outlawed the Democratic Party, he could impose the same sort of remarkable cohesion.

Hehehehe...

2 posted on 01/04/2007 8:05:28 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: 70times7; admiralsn; Aeronaut; alwaysconservative; AnnaZ; Archangel86; bad company; ...
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Lileks Ping!
If you'd like to be added or removed, just drop me a line...

3 posted on 01/04/2007 8:05:33 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
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To: Constitution Day
"He was a counterweight to Iran!"

Saddam proved to be some counterweight alright...

4 posted on 01/04/2007 8:05:48 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: Constitution Day

A murderous, genocidal, tyrant gets hung after a lengthy trial and an appeal and people are pissed off. The world is totally NUTZ!


5 posted on 01/04/2007 8:07:18 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: frogjerk

Not totally, but at least partly!


6 posted on 01/04/2007 8:10:04 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
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To: Constitution Day

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7 posted on 01/04/2007 8:11:03 AM PST by sauropod ("Men would appreciate women's minds more if they bounced gently when they walked. ")
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To: randog

Lileks' piece is quite insightful ... as always.


8 posted on 01/04/2007 8:13:26 AM PST by sono (For everyone but America the free world is mostly a free ride. - Mark Steyn)
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9 posted on 01/04/2007 8:13:50 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
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To: Constitution Day

Putting an end to the Saddam problem?

I thought that was what the noose was for.


10 posted on 01/04/2007 8:17:27 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Constitution Day
This dictator, who allowed his sons to murder his people for sport, was put to death by his people.

Then CNN reports why it was bad that he was executed.

The NY Times laments his passing.

The folks over at NBC are practically in tears that he is gone.

Yet, the folks in the MSN can't understand why people continue to go elsewhere for the news.

11 posted on 01/04/2007 8:24:56 AM PST by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: Constitution Day
no man is above the law. Especially the one concerning gravity.

I like this line.

12 posted on 01/04/2007 8:27:53 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Long Island Pete

The Muslims, we are told, gave us the Zero a thousand years ago, and little much since. We can take heart, however, that science has returned to the Muslim mind; Saddam Hussain finally discovered the Law of Gravity.


13 posted on 01/04/2007 8:31:41 AM PST by 50sDad (I respect other religions by allowing them the right to worship. But they still are wrong.)
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To: Long Island Pete

Yes, that's what the article meant.

D


14 posted on 01/04/2007 8:41:40 AM PST by daviddennis (If you like my stuff, please visit amazing.com, my new social networking site!)
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To: Constitution Day

Okay, NOW the new year can begin, now that we've had our dose of the inimitable Lileks, LOL!

Thanks so much for the ping! I like how he answers some of the really stupid comments that have been made about Saddam's execution, in his own style.

Thanks again!


15 posted on 01/04/2007 8:51:11 AM PST by alwaysconservative (Calling illegal aliens undocumented workers is like calling drug dealers undocumented pharmacists.)
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To: Constitution Day
It may be only from my personal perspective but it appears to me that the "outrage" is strangely muted, almost pro forma. About the only cogent argument you could make against the action is that the fellow didn't deserve it and I don't see that one flying even in the most fever-ridden swamps of leftwing blogdom.

The rest of it is fluff. "We put him in power" is simply ignorant and false, as is "Bush is just as bad" and "Saddam was the terrorists' enemy." These are comforting lies - the kiddies will sleep more quietly if they believe there never was a monster under the bed, and never mind the bones and claw marks. He's gone now.

16 posted on 01/04/2007 8:55:21 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Constitution Day

Thanks for the ping!

Great as always.


17 posted on 01/04/2007 9:07:43 AM PST by synbad600
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To: antiRepublicrat

And the closer:

"... It does not solve the problem of Iraq. But it solved the problem of Saddam."

YEP.


18 posted on 01/04/2007 9:13:11 AM PST by karnage
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To: Constitution Day

Tyrants in other countries might have felt a pang of unease at his end; all that money, all that power, all those glorious implements of fear and oppression at his disposal, and it still added up to a drop, a jolt, an ignominious yank captured on shaky cellphone video. No doubt tyrants have drawn the correct conclusion, too: Confiscate all the cell phones.

IRAN: SPECIAL POLICE CORPS CHARGED WITH CONTROLLING CELL PHONES
AKI ^

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762301/posts
Posted on 01/04/2007 9:40:51 AM CST by Valin


Tehran, 4 Jan. (AKI) - A special police corps has been officially tasked with checking the cell phones of Iranians and in the past few days plain-clothes officials have started stopping passers-by in Iran's main cities to inspect their mobiles. All text messages and audio or video files considered 'illegal' are erased by the officials from this new corps. In the past few years, cell phones have reportedly become the main means to convey news which would never make it into the government-controlled Iranian media.

News on scandals, jokes on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other political leaders, information on meetings, political assemblies and rallies mainly circulate via cell phones.
(snip)

Do the Mullahs read Lileks? :-)


19 posted on 01/04/2007 9:20:06 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: karnage

There's always another problem.
Life..it's just one damn things after another.


20 posted on 01/04/2007 9:22:06 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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