Saddam's Capture: Mission Accomplished!
In an article from last December, columnist Robert Yoho shares with us the triumph we all felt when Saddam Hussein was finally captured.
December 14, 2003
On Sunday, it was announced that the United States military had successfully captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was truly a historic day! Even the Allies could not capture Adolph Hitler after World War II. Thanks to his suicide and the burning of his corpse, they never even had a body to display. And Saddam is truly a man of that same magnitude of evil.
Despite his love for panache and bravado, the fleeing Saddam was trapped like a rat in a hole. In fact, the rat was caught right there: in a hole. The man looked more like a homeless man you would see laying underneath a bridge in one of our major cities. He had a gray, scraggly beard that an Army medical doctor checked for lice. It was remarkable to watch the contrast between our military people and that of the former Iraqi dictator. Ours administer medical attention to the ones it captures; their people administer beatings, murders, mutilation, and rape.
By taking Hussein alive, the United States military succeeded in making the former Iraqi "strongman" look even smaller before the people he previously terrorized. No doubt it took some remarkable restraint for the military personnel who located Saddam to actually take the man alive. He certainly deserved a bullet! However, his surrender made the man look weak, small, and timid. The Iraqi people and the rest of the world already know that his two sons, Uday and Qusay, went down fighting. They died in a hail of bullets and their bodies were displayed to the world. Their cowardly father surrendered rather than give his own miserable life for the cause that he made a multitude of others die for. Saddam forced others to die for his regime, but he would not die for it himself!
Although his acts of genocide merited Saddam's immediate death, I think it is a good thing the man was taken alive. Along with the fact his people see him for the small man he truly is, the world also sees the fact that we have kept our world to the Iraqi people. Don't you think for a minute that this didnt matter to the Iraqis! I saw the video of them out on the streets cheering and celebrating his capture. For as long as he was at large, the Iraqi people could not rest easily at night. Now, the entire world knows that Saddam's reign of evil is finally over.
Moreover, I do not think we can mention the capture of Saddam Hussein without tipping our hats to the extraordinary performance of our men and women in uniform. They are all to be applauded! Our armed forces performed bravely and admirably in all they called upon to do. They endured the dangers of battles, the long separations from their loved ones, and battle conditions that constantly tested their resolve.
We would also be remiss if we failed to mention the determination and vision of our Commander-in-Chief! President Bush deliberately risked his political future to do the right thing. He said that Saddam must be removed from power and he kept his promise. Despite political pressure from America and abroad, he did not yield to the weak sisters of the world that would willingly let tyrants continue their treachery! Bush is truly a visionary - a person who sees the world not as how it is, but rather, as how he would make it.
Saddam is in custody, a fact that should bring smiles to the face of all Americans. However, to several of the Democrats running for president, it is a time for them to push an agenda that if followed, would have left Saddam in power. Howard Dean and John Kerry say that we must now "reach out" to the international community. However, whenever we reached out to them in the past, they bit the hand that saved them from Nazi tyranny. Dean and Kerry believe we should turn Iraq over to the gutless French and let them profiteer off the people who were repeatedly abused by the government they supported.
Congratulations to President Bush, the members of the United States military, and our brave Allies, led by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. You captured Saddam! You overthrew a ruthless regime. You kept your word! We ask only that you do not yield to those blind and timid detractors who know neither victory nor sacrifice. ***
December 14, 2003
On Sunday, it was announced that the United States military had successfully captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was truly a historic day! Even the Allies could not capture Adolph Hitler after World War II. Thanks to his suicide and the burning of his corpse, they never even had a body to display. And Saddam is truly a man of that same magnitude of evil.
Despite his love for panache and bravado, the fleeing Saddam was trapped like a rat in a hole. In fact, the rat was caught right there: in a hole. The man looked more like a homeless man you would see laying underneath a bridge in one of our major cities. He had a gray, scraggly beard that an Army medical doctor checked for lice. It was remarkable to watch the contrast between our military people and that of the former Iraqi dictator. Ours administer medical attention to the ones it captures; their people administer beatings, murders, mutilation, and rape.
By taking Hussein alive, the United States military succeeded in making the former Iraqi "strongman" look even smaller before the people he previously terrorized. No doubt it took some remarkable restraint for the military personnel who located Saddam to actually take the man alive. He certainly deserved a bullet! However, his surrender made the man look weak, small, and timid. The Iraqi people and the rest of the world already know that his two sons, Uday and Qusay, went down fighting. They died in a hail of bullets and their bodies were displayed to the world. Their cowardly father surrendered rather than give his own miserable life for the cause that he made a multitude of others die for. Saddam forced others to die for his regime, but he would not die for it himself!
Although his acts of genocide merited Saddam's immediate death, I think it is a good thing the man was taken alive. Along with the fact his people see him for the small man he truly is, the world also sees the fact that we have kept our world to the Iraqi people. Don't you think for a minute that this didnt matter to the Iraqis! I saw the video of them out on the streets cheering and celebrating his capture. For as long as he was at large, the Iraqi people could not rest easily at night. Now, the entire world knows that Saddam's reign of evil is finally over.
Moreover, I do not think we can mention the capture of Saddam Hussein without tipping our hats to the extraordinary performance of our men and women in uniform. They are all to be applauded! Our armed forces performed bravely and admirably in all they called upon to do. They endured the dangers of battles, the long separations from their loved ones, and battle conditions that constantly tested their resolve.
We would also be remiss if we failed to mention the determination and vision of our Commander-in-Chief! President Bush deliberately risked his political future to do the right thing. He said that Saddam must be removed from power and he kept his promise. Despite political pressure from America and abroad, he did not yield to the weak sisters of the world that would willingly let tyrants continue their treachery! Bush is truly a visionary - a person who sees the world not as how it is, but rather, as how he would make it.
Saddam is in custody, a fact that should bring smiles to the face of all Americans. However, to several of the Democrats running for president, it is a time for them to push an agenda that if followed, would have left Saddam in power. Howard Dean and John Kerry say that we must now "reach out" to the international community. However, whenever we reached out to them in the past, they bit the hand that saved them from Nazi tyranny. Dean and Kerry believe we should turn Iraq over to the gutless French and let them profiteer off the people who were repeatedly abused by the government they supported.
Congratulations to President Bush, the members of the United States military, and our brave Allies, led by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. You captured Saddam! You overthrew a ruthless regime. You kept your word! We ask only that you do not yield to those blind and timid detractors who know neither victory nor sacrifice. ***
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