"We got him"

Big day yesterday for the U.S. military and the Bush administration! Capturing Sadaam Hussein.

Random thoughts on the day:

- the image of the bedraggled Sadaam, looking like it was a cold night on skid row, is worth a fortune in PR for the U.S. No doubt about it, he's done with. I'm guessing he's not going to have a pleasant week.

- I'd say Sadaam has had it pretty rough since, oh I'd say about March when the U.S. military rode into town. No palaces to live in. No parties. No raping. No murder. No genocide. Only a spider hole to live in. What's a poor ruthless, murdering dictator to do?

- I was struck by the explosive outburst from the Iraqi journalists in the briefing room when the announcement was made. "Death to Sadaam"! And those were the "impartial" journalists.

- Great day for the White House. Big moment for George W. Bush in his speech to the nation. Although I kind of wanted him to look at the camera and say: "Osama, you're next. Whatever hole your hiding in isn't deep enough for us not to find you".

- Big day for the war on terrorism. For you attention-span challenged twenty-somethings running the Howard Dean campaign, take note. In the short span of 9 months the U.S. military has projected force across the ocean in strength, defeated an entrenched army, deposed a standing genocidal government in violation of 12+ UN resolutions, rebuilt schools and infrastructure, aided the formation of a new democratic government with a representative mission to the UN, and hunted down and captured 42 of the 55 most wanted criminal leaders of the deposed criminal Baath party. A stunning, history making, victory on all accounts. Only you leftist know-nothings keep crowing about it being a mistake and a "quagmire". I now count Al Gore in your ranks. His rants about the war in last week's stunning endorsement of Howard Dean will now quickly backfire on him.

- The weasels were in full flight yesterday on the Sunday chat shows. It was priceless watching Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry ducking and jiving on a talk show. "I always said we should get Sadaam Hussein" he said. "I just wanted to do it right, with the help of our UN allies". Stand back Mr. Kerry. George W. Bush will show you how to do it right. As Joe Lieberman said yesterday, "If Howard Dean's policies had been in place, Sadaam Hussein would be in power today, not in prison". Well said Senator Lieberman. The fact is that applies to all the Democratic candidates except Lieberman.

- When will the Democrats figure out that, on the issue of Sadaam Hussein, our "allies" like France, Germany, and Russia weren't our allies. They were Sadaam's allies. They were in business with him in violation of the UN sanctions. That's why they didn't support us in this action. They were Sadaam's allies. What's hard to understand about that? That's why the Bush policy, announced last week, that the countries that did not join the coalition and fight are not eligible to profit from the contracts to rebuild Iraq. Right on. They didn't share in the sacrifice or put themselves at risk. So why are the Democrats crying about the new policy on behalf of our supposed allies?

- The democrats have three mantras about the war
- it was a mistake or a fraud
- it's a quagmire
- we need to "internationalize" the war and bring in our allies. ( the corollary: we've been bad and the world hates us.)

I say: just keep harping on those mantras, Democrats, and it's Bush in '04!

- CNN poll today on "should Sadaam get the death penalty? 60% yes, 40% no - life in prison. What's wrong with you people. Is killing 1 million people not enough to warrant the death penalty? Please tell me that those 40% CNN viewers are not registered voters.

- I only want 2 answers from Sadaam before they shoot him in the public square:
- Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) hidden?
- Where is P.O.W. Commander Scott Speicher?

I think a few days of sleep deprivation and 24 hour playing of Metallica at full volume should get us those answers. Then you can shoot.