This is an American First [The Capture of Saddam]

Happy Saddam Day! | By Lazamataz

[struwwelpeter]

[breakem]

Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Jefferson Davis, Noriega,

[elli1]

"After babbling on initially, predictably the SOB has clammed up. And now he'll be pampered in luxury and advised by International Alan Dershowitz Law Experts until somebody hatches a judicial plan that ensures Hussein's @ss will be fried."

Ah, but we could turn him over to Iraqis/Kurds for interrogation purposes, could we not?

[cwb]

Speaking of showing compassion for Saddam...Chris Matthews just asked Dick Gephardt about the disparity in the video that showed a soldier checking Saddam out for head lice and cavities. Instead of the Gephardt emphasizing the difference between us and them...and how we are a compassionate country, he and Chris go off on a tangent about healthcare and how every American should get that kind of care. Talk about dillusional.

[Lazamataz]

Sitting Bull

Aboriginal tribesman. Doesn't count.

Geronimo

Aboriginal tribesman. Doesn't count.

Jefferson Davis

Wasn't the United States. Was two different nations: The Union and the Confederacy.

Noriega

This one is more like it. But it still wasn't quite what I think about when I mean a conventional war agaist a conventional enemy.

[vanmorrison]

That's true, but, again, the US did not capture Santa Anna. It was the Texicans, fighting to achieve their independence.

[breakem]

You made my point about Jeff Davis thanks. Isn't Saddam aboriginal? LOL!

[rface]

great photo!

[breakem]

"But it still wasn't quite what I think about when I mean a conventional war agaist a conventional enemy."

Won't tell you what I'm thinking!

We don't have conventional wars anymore. Last one was WWII.

[Axenolith]

He moved to hell recently...

[ASA Vet]

UBL is next I hope

Hard to catch dried up ooze in cave floor cracks.

He's been dead over 2 years.

[Al Simmons]

"If you want to be completely technical: When Hitler killed himself, he named Jodl as his successor. Jodl did surrender to the Allies, was tried and got a reverse bungee jump"


*BEEEEP*!! wrong answer!! Hitler named Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor. As I recall, Doenitz got a 20-year sentence at Nuremberg.

[ASA Vet]

you killed a really great idea and essay with your damned facts

You could convert to demoncRAT.
Facts "damned" or any other kind would no longer be a problem for you.

[Al Simmons]

"The real ruler in Japan was Hideki Tojo, military ruler, actually a dictator. By that time, the emperor was just a figurehead. We did capture Tojo, and were holding him in a hotel in tokyo when he committed hara-kiri. Hard to set a policy based on that, though."

*BEEEEEP*!! WRONG ANSWER!! (Do some Freepers need remedial history today or what?)

Tojo SHOT himself, BUT WAS SAVED BY US DOCTORS. He was tried for war crimes, convicted and HANGED.

You're welcome. :0)

[I got the rope]

As I stated on another forum - at least Hitler had the balls to off himself when he knew the jig was up.

At least that's what the Russians told us. I have always hoped that there was a slow, gruesome, alternative to this story.

[txhurl]

Yes, notice my handle is not USflake.

[Valin]

A fair trial followed but a fine hanging sounds about right to me.

[Valin]

Saturday, 16 August, 2003, 12:42 GMT 13:42 UK

Dictator Idi Amin dies


Amin seized power in a coup
Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has died of multiple organ failure in hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Amin, who was variously described as 78 or 80 years old, had been in a coma at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah since 18 July.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3155925.stm

[ovrtaxt]

Well, during the War on Poverty, not only didn't we capture our enemies, we LET ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT!

[Physicist]

World War Two, Germany: Nope.

Tut, tut! Hitler died on April 30, 1945. Admiral Karl Dönitz became Führer at that point. He surrendered to Allied forces on May 7, 1945.