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[quote]Would you believe I have been crying, watching this? [/quote]
:spock: I believe it was moving, but crying? I guess you are associating and remembering old black boot days.

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Now the next question is... where is Saddam?
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[sarcasm]
In comes the information minister looking over at Stranger, he says...
"It is an illusion I tell you, all now he is trying to avoid his boss and three x-wives!"
[/sarcasm]

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LOLOLOL
Right on both counts.
Along about now Saddam has good reason to avoid his ex-everybodies!!!

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Can Saddam really be compared to the likes of Hitler or Stalin? Or maybe this is how the US and Israel see him?

From ABCNews:

Subject:  It was the image seen 'round the world -- the statue of Saddam
being toppled from its pedestal in the heart of Baghdad.  It was the
symbolic end of Saddam's 24-year reign of terror.  Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld summed it up this way: "It's been a very good day for the
Iraqi people...Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside
Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal
dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom."  Others
compared today to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

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[quote]Can Saddam really be compared to the likes of Hitler or Stalin? Or maybe this is how the US and Israel see him?

From ABCNews:

Subject:  It was the image seen 'round the world -- the statue of Saddam
being toppled from its pedestal in the heart of Baghdad.  It was the
symbolic end of Saddam's 24-year reign of terror.  Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld summed it up this way: "It's been a very good day for the
Iraqi people...Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside
Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed brutal
dictators, and the Iraqi people are well on their way to freedom."  Others
compared today to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989[/quote]
The difference lies in the scale, the magnitude of what each was able to inflict.

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Some interesting news from the Arab standpoint:

Arab News:

Exclusive: Najaf Leaders Vie for Control, Power
Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent  NAJAF, 10 April 2003 - More than 700 armed soldiers loyal to the Iraqi opposition marched into this city yesterday. They were escorted by US Special Force soldiers. On the left shoulders of their uniform was displayed the flag of the Iraqi resistance movement: A green bar on the left,...  
https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24990
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Exclusive: Bush's Body Language Speaks Volumes
Dr. Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed, comments@d-corner.com  Watching George W. Bush deliver his speeches is becoming more alarming as his diction and body language become ever so transparently arrogant. Only people who are oblivious to the Other as a living concept are capable of such behavior. The President issues statements that polarize and divide: "You are either...  
https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24991
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Exclusive: Journalists Die and Networks Lie
Linda S. Heard, Special to Arab News  Iraq is being "liberated" while truth is incarcerated. Former BBC reporter Kate Adie warned that non-embedded journalists in Iraq could be Pentagon targets before the war began. She was right. On Tuesday, an American tank shell was fired at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel - temporary home of international reporters and film...  
https://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24988

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Suicide bombers in Iraq - we have another Israel on our hands. No time for celibration at all. There should be technology that can chek for this (bombs) at a distance?

From CNN:

Four U.S. Marines seriously wounded in suicide bomb attack near Palestine Hotel, CNN's
Walter Rodgers reports from Baghdad.

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[quote]Four U.S. Marines seriously wounded in suicide bomb attack near Palestine Hotel, CNN's
Walter Rodgers reports from Baghdad. [/quote]

That's very sad. I'm glad that nobody was killed. Did they give details about it? whether it was a man or a woman, etc?.


I just heard in the news that those US marines were killed in fact.