Four More Years!
- wadE
I had intentions of having a completely fluff gambit today filled with ramblings about commerce
and websites, with special attention to news sources and product driven "news" articles...
But then I popped up espn.com yesterday morning and the secondary headline was the Saddam had
been captured!
Yes, can you belive it! ESPN had something non-sports related as a headline! When we invaded
Iraq they didn't have a peep on it. When we attacked Afghanistan there was nothing. They barely had
a tagline link to ABCNEWS.com after 9/11. And on the actual day they didn't have anything!
Once I got over the shock of ESPN having a non-sports headline I realized what the capture of
Saddam meant. He was alive, and that means I'm not going to break the tie for second place
in the Dead Pool.
Secondly, I realized that this capture means four more years of the Shrub. Even more insurance
is coming with a reported Iraqi document that links the head of the 9/11 hijackers to Saddam.
Whether or not this document is fiction doesn't matter. If it exists, this justifies everything
Bush banked on when invading Iraq. If Saddam admits to having weapons of mass destruction, we
might as well skip the next election and just wait to see if Hillary will become the first female
president in 2008.
Regardless, the capture of Saddam is good news. As most people in the US feel, I just want this
Iraq thing to go away. The quicker they can get the country under control and get out, the better.
This is a big step in that direction.
Also, the capture has already provided great comedy. He was found in a muddy hole. He looked
like hell. His first words were, "My name is Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq and I
want to negotiate." Ha! Good times!
On a related note, check this out.
Christiane Amanpour looks like hell. I didn't know the food in Iraq was that good! Put down that
spoonful of shorba bi djaj Christiane!!!
Late morning addendum sent to me by Wade:
Officials said that some of the documents detailed a meeting of resistence cell leaders -- and included their names.
Yet the deposed Iraqi leader who eluded coalition forces since the capital fell in April is replying to interrogators' questions with nationalist or patriotic rhetoric, military and other sources told CNN.
"For example, he was offered a glass of water, and Saddam said, 'Well, if I take that glass of water I will have to urinate, and if I have to urinate, I will have to go to the bathroom, and how can I possibly go to the bathroom when my people are enslaved?' " Time magazine correspondent Brian Bennett said.
A senior U.S. official said that in the first interrogation Sunday, the former Iraqi leader "was a wiseass," or in other words, that he gave only defiant and unhelpful answers.
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