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2003-07-22 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-22 11:29:37 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh please please is right! Gawwwwddddd I hope they're dead meat. Mount their heads on pikes outside the Bremer compound

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-22 11:32:52 AM|| 2003-7-22 11:32:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't be true! I swear those guys were in Pamplona running with the bulls. They were having a blast.

Posted by Lucky 2003-7-22 11:42:38 AM|| 2003-7-22 11:42:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 If caught, we need to put them (or their bodies) in a large, bulletproof transparent case, and drive them around Iraq for a few weeks. Give their former constituents a chance to see that they're really out of action...

Posted by snellenr 2003-7-22 12:00:06 PM|| 2003-7-22 12:00:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd put Qusay's head in a box "Special Delivery" to Baby Assad, and Uday's head in a box "Urgent" to Ayatollah Khatemi.

Or perhaps both heads marked "Personal and Confidential" to Crown Prince Abdullah...

Posted by seafarious 2003-7-22 12:31:36 PM|| 2003-7-22 12:31:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll just settle for the video of their carcasses being tossed onto the back of a truck for disposal. There's something about the way deaders bounce when they're tossed like that that's very convincing...

Posted by Fred 2003-7-22 12:33:32 PM|| 2003-7-22 12:33:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hand the rotting carcasses over to the fledgling Iraqi council and let them spread the word. Maybe they'll go for a nice Mussolini-like display in that square where the statue got pulled down a few months ago.

Posted by Dar 2003-7-22 12:46:12 PM|| 2003-7-22 12:46:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fox is reporting that one soldier was shot in the chest and is stable condition. No mention of three dead. Also more troops have been trucked in to secure the area. Dusk is falling. Lastly, the raid was carried out by Task force 20. A unit composed of Delta Force and CIA commando's assisted by the 101st AB.

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-22 1:02:43 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:02:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hang both of them from those swords on the parade grounds. Invite the people to come by and pay their respects.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-7-22 1:03:44 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:03:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sarge: I'd kind of hoped that we'd had the good sense to melt down those swords on the parade grounds into service medals by now or, at least, put them on a truck and given 'em to the Iranians... is there a reason why we haven't (our great respect for the Iraqi army? {insert mind boggle here}

Posted by snellenr 2003-7-22 1:11:20 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:11:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 We've been down this road before, so I'll believe it when I see it. I hope, soon.

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-22 1:12:04 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:12:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 From DEBKA: Saddamâs two sons Uday and Qusay, Saddam's grandson Mustafa, 14, and bodyguard killed when 200 US special forces and CIA commandos raid cousinâs villa in north Iraqi own of Mosul Tuesday. Cousin is Marwan Zeidan, of head of Abou Nasser tribe.

Posted by Steve 2003-7-22 1:24:52 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:24:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 But I want to know - Who won the lotto!

Posted by Don 2003-7-22 3:17:27 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 BBC

"Our correspondent in Baghdad said gunfire in the city on Tuesday evening was thought to be celebratory fire from those who had heard that the brothers may have been killed. "

Here's to the people of Iraq.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 3:20:52 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:20:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 CENTCOM confirms Uday and Qusai are dead. (via press conference airing right now)

Posted by growler 2003-7-22 3:36:03 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Coalition news conference ongoing, confirmed Uday and Qusay are dead!Let the ululating begin!

Posted by Steve 2003-7-22 3:37:08 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:37:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 CNN headline: "TRUMPED"

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-22 3:43:29 PM|| 2003-7-22 3:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 From all the pictures, including the deck of cards, I still can't figure out which one is Uday and which one is Qusay.

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-22 4:38:49 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:38:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Uday is the dead one...oh, wait, so is Qusay! Damn lol

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-22 7:18:42 PM|| 2003-7-22 7:18:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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