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Iraq
Arabs Have Mixed Emotions About Cowering Saddam Capture
2003-12-14
EFL & Rooters Bias

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arabs greeted the capture of Saddam Hussein with divided emotions Sunday, regretting welcoming the arrest of a dictator yet tinged with regret that a ‘symbol’ of Arab defiance against the United States was behind bars.
Tap, tap...
Some feared Saddam’s capture would boost President Bush, who many Arabs believe has waged a campaign against them and other Muslims after the September 11 attacks. But others said that we have all learned to dig our own spider holes the fight against U.S. occupation would go on.

For others, the capture was disappointing news. Saddam may have been seen as a dictator who oppressed his people, but many also saw him as the only Arab leader who stood up to the United States, which they said rode roughshod through the region.
‘The only Arab leader who stood up to the United Sates... .’ Lesson learned?

Asshats Others said the U.S. success might prove to have a lasting and deep impact fleeting, saying Iraqis were not fighting for Saddam but for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Poor sportsmanship.
"The situation in Iraq will not change much. I don’t think the resistance was linked to Saddam and it will increase as was the case after the death of Uday and Qusay," said Yemeni political analyst Saeed Shabet, referring to Saddam’s two sons.
Consider the source.
In Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians are pointlessly fighting against an Israeli occupation, some were in somber mood that the United States, correctly perceived as providing unswerving support for Israel, could claim victory.
‘Occupation’? GO TO HELL YOU WARLOCK!
"It’s a great black day in history. I am saying so not because Saddam is an Arab but because he is the only man who said ’no’ to American injustice in the Middle East," said Fadiq Husam, a 33-year-old taxi driver in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Boo, efing, hoo. Tough sh*t assclown!
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