Posted on 12/18/2003 11:16:07 AM PST by NorCoGOP
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Batool Al-Alawi's family called her from Kuwait at about 11 a.m. The sophomore is an international student at Indiana State University from Kuwait.
"There are celebrations everywhere in Kuwait," Al-Alawi said. "We were really excited. Even the Iraqi people are excited."
However, Al-Alawi said she doesn't think the destruction in Iraq was worth it to capture one man.
"The United States should not handle this on its own," she said.
Pierre Lee Smith, a sophomore, said his roommate woke him up with the news of Saddam Hussein being captured by U.S. forces.
"My roommate bust through the door all happy, doing cartwheels screaming 'We got the bastard. We got the bastard,'" Smith said. "After which, I went back to sleep."
Megan Beers, a sophomore, said, "I think catching him makes us feel better about the war, but it is not going to solve all the problems."
Jack Maynard, Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, said Saddam's capture will not change the situation in Iraq overnight, but he thinks it's a very big step.
Sophomore Amanda Lenwell saw the capture of Saddam as just the opposite.
"I think this just tops the war off," she said.
Colleen Fisher, a sophomore, had a similar view as Lenwell.
"It will finally bring an end to what we've been doing in the Middle East," Fisher said.
Now that Saddam has been apprehended, the question is one of what comes next.
Sophomore Breanne Everett said, "I think [Saddam} should have a slow and painful death, just like he did to all of his people."
Jeff Irwin, a junior, also said [Saddam] should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Irwin said he doesn't think the capture will affect life in Iraq.
"It won't," he said. "It wasn't a person, it was the mindset of the culture."
Smith said the impact in the Middle East will depend on who follows in the wake of the restructuring.
"It depends on if another tyrant takes control," Smith said. "How do you follow Saddam?"
Political science Professor Glenn Perry said: "I don't think this means anything to the Iraqi people because he was already out of power. He was hiding in a cellar."
Senior Bob Ehresman said he thinks Saddam's capture is a step forward.
"There's still a lot more work that needs to be done," he said. "It will bring a lot of peace of mind to Iraq and the world outside, as well."
Professor Michael Erisman, chairman of the political science department, said the impact of Saddam's capture in the Middle East will depend on what the United States decides to do with him.
"In the world in general ... the response will overall be pretty positive -- the idea being that this will possibly have some calming affect on the situation," Erisman said.
Erisman said there has been speculation that Saddam will be tried in an international trial, similar to that of the Nuremberg trials for Nazis.
"If it's international," Erisman said, "the question is, who would be involved?"
Ehresman said he doesn't think it should be the decision of the United States as to what happens next.
"I don't think that's the decision of the United States," he said. "That's the decision of the Iraqi people."
I'm just too cool for school. Make sure you include my middle name in the attribution, please.
Wasn't that one of the killers in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?.
SS. It is obvious that the students have a grasp on reality while the profssor is letting his ignorance, based on leftist views, shine through!
I will do a search on the left wing indoctrinator, and I know he will have a tie to the anti american, hate Bush crowd.
http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1998_11_10.htm
Obviously the Iraqis reacted like it WAS a big deal and for good reason. He is no longer the 'monster in the closet' for Iraqis. They need fear him no more. Finally. Even out of power, there was the Iraqi fear that we would leave and saddam would return. this prof doesnt understand it, maybe he thinks we never should have toppled saddam and would be quite content to have saddam in power.
95% of Iraqis beg to differ.
LOL, darn you are good.
You'll make it, you have gotten this far. I think there are worst places to be. Let me think....hmmmm, like a spider-hole in Iraq. Yeah, there are worst places.
Yeah, I don't think the destruction in Kuwait was worth annoying that one man either. We should have just let Saddam have Kuwait.
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