Palast: Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/views03/1214-08.htm

Published on Sunday, December 14, 2003 by CommonDreams.org

Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam; Ex-Dictator Demands Back Pay from Baker
by Grag Palast

 Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at 8:30p.m. Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer III.

Ex-President Hussein himself told US military interrogators that he had surfaced after hearing of the appointment of his long-time associate James Baker III to settle Iraq's debts. "Hey, my homeboy Jim owes me big time," Mr. Hussein stated. He asserted that Baker and the prior Bush regime, "owe me my back pay. After all I did for these guys you'd think they'd have the decency to pay up."

The Iraqi dictator then went on to list the "hits" he conducted on behalf of the Baker-Bush administrations, ending with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, authorized by the former US secretary of state Baker.
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[G_j]

1. kick

:kick:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I love Greg

Too bad we can't get one of the big three networks to hire him on. *sigh*

[CityZen-X]

3. Moments At The "Cove"

The video of the military medic inspecting the inner mouth of Sadaam was on our TV screen at home when my wife asked, "what are they looking for?" I quickly responded, "their looking for the Weapons of Mass Destruction, honey." She said, "do you think they will find them?" I said " Nope, I think they need to look up Bu$h*t's arse!!"

[G_j]

4. and this:

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While having his hair styled by US military makeover artists, Saddam listed jobs completed at the request of his allies in the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations for which he claims back wages:

1979: Seizes power with US approval; moves allegiance from Soviets to USA in Cold War.

1980: Invades Iran, then the "Unicycle of Evil," with US encouragement and arms.

1982: Reagan regime removes Saddam's regime from official US list of state sponsors of terrorism.

1983: Saddam hosts Donald Rumsfeld in Baghdad. Agrees to "go steady" with US corporate suppliers.

1984: US Commerce Department issues license for export of aflatoxin to Iraq
useable in biological weapons.

1988: Kurds in Halabja, Iraq, gassed.

1987-88: US warships destroy Iranian oil platforms in Gulf and break Iranian blockade of Iraq shipping lanes, tipping war advantage back to Saddam.
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