The nightmare is over - and the nightmare is about to begin

[DuctapeFatwa]

..And there was one conclusion upon which every Iraqi I spoke to yesterday agreed.

This bedraggled, pathetic man with his matted, dirty hair, living in a hole in the ground with three guns and cash as his cave-companions - this man was not leading the Iraqi insurgency against the Americans. Indeed, more and more Iraqis were saying before Saddam's capture that the one reason they would not join the resistance to US occupation was the fear that - if the Americans withdrew - Saddam would return to power. Now that fear has been taken away. So the nightmare is over - and the nightmare is about to begin. For both the Iraqis and for us...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article5378.htm

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[nini]

3. You don't know much about the Taliban types waiting in the wings..

... do you?

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. Yes, there were literally dozens of them in the streets, celebrating

And the human rights whiners will be pleased to note that his American captors were compassionate enough to Clairol up his moustache a little after his shave and haircut so he wouldn't have so much gray in it as he did in that beard picture.

[Karenina]

12. Yes, at LEAST dozens

waving red flags! Time to PARTY! :eyes:

[Sparkle]

6. LOL!

Registered tonight...tombstoned tonight. LOL! Thanks mods! :-)

[caledesi]

8. Iraqis? Why doesn't SH come forward and tell where the WMD

are? After all, he is the "Ace of Spades."

[Cheswick2.0]

14. okaysureright

:eyes:

[nini]

2. Agreed.. it's gonna get ugly in the fight for power there.

I hope I'm wrong.. for everyone's sake.

[expatriot]

5. A "missing Saddam" was the Occupation's best chance of keeping power...

...the fear of Saddam's return after a US withdrawal from Iraq was what kept a lot of Iraqis (especially Shiites) from rising up against the foreign invaders... now they do not have to fear Saddam's return...

[Karenina]

13. A guy in our neighborhood

packed his bags yesterday. He hasn't heard ANYTHING from or about his family in MONTHS. I suspect this scene is being repeated in many quarters. Those returning have had the benefit of a FREE PRESS and have witnessed the daily atrocities committed by Americans on their loved ones. Yes, Saddam is captured and Americans can go shopping again. Happy days are here again. :SIGH:

[sistersofmercy]

7. This is why I'm not celebrating with the majority here today

this and other reasons, that quite honestly I'm tired of typing but let me add, Saudi Arabia.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Yea, yea. I agree already but when you going to write some more of...

...your own stuff again DF? Not trying to get pushy or nothing, but I liked your last writings and have been looking forward to some more of your original stuff. Sorry about the subject change here.

Don

[DuctapeFatwa]

15. Thanks! Here's a link to the most recent one

It sort of ties in, although I wrote it a couple of days before today's events....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=894251

[proud patriot]

10. Must Read ...Thanks for posting

:wow:

[daleo]

11. Power abhors a vacuum

Even though Saddam may no longer have had any real power, he was no doubt thought by many to still be important. His removal means that forces that had been sitting on the sideline will now feel it is possible (and probably imperative) to move into the active conflict. Hence, probably an increase in violence, not a dimunition.