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Finally, one step closer to closure

sapperskunksapperskunk Posts: 684
edited December 2006 in A Moving Train
When I was in Iraq, locals would ask me every single day "Hey Mister, where Saddam?" And I would always jokingly reply, "I don't know, are you hiding him", or something to that effect. I met so many Iraqi's whose lives were totally fucked from that guy. People that had been imprisoned since the first Gulf War. One guy whose wife and son were killed by fedayeen, another who was burned over his whole body because he wouldn't join the Baathists under Sadaam and a whole plethora of others who provided us intel and worked for us in varying roles.

My mothers side of the family hails from Baghdad, they're Armenians who changed their name and pretended to be Muslim to flee to Kuwait, my mother was the last one across the border and she absolutely BARELY made it. She thought she was dead. That guy was a complete ass. And of course the media will show some erupting violence, because it IS prevalent and it does sell.

What I would love to see though is the smiling ecstatic faces of those people that I knew when they first heard the news. But I can only imagine. Now we need to get the rest of those troops home, the quicker the better.

Beers in Seattle on me! First round at least ;)
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    sapperskunk wrote:
    When I was in Iraq, locals would ask me every single day "Hey Mister, where Saddam?" And I would always jokingly reply, "I don't know, are you hiding him", or something to that effect. I met so many Iraqi's whose lives were totally fucked from that guy. People that had been imprisoned since the first Gulf War. One guy whose wife and son were killed by fedayeen, another who was burned over his whole body because he wouldn't join the Baathists under Sadaam and a whole plethora of others who provided us intel and worked for us in varying roles.

    My mothers side of the family hails from Baghdad, they're Armenians who changed their name and pretended to be Muslim to flee to Kuwait, my mother was the last one across the border and she absolutely BARELY made it. She thought she was dead. That guy was a complete ass. And of course the media will show some erupting violence, because it IS prevalent and it does sell.

    What I would love to see though is the smiling ecstatic faces of those people that I knew when they first heard the news. But I can only imagine. Now we need to get the rest of those troops home, the quicker the better.

    Beers in Seattle on me! First round at least ;)

    Murder is not closure. It just perpetuates the terrorism we supposedly fight.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    I can't believe it. Another fucking thread.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • BetterRadioBetterRadio Posts: 189
    gue_barium wrote:
    Murder is not closure. It just perpetuates the terrorism we supposedly fight.

    I'm sorry you suffer from retardation. :(
    They're gonna tell you where to walk
    When to smile and just what to say
    They say have your own fun...

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  • Skitch PattersonSkitch Patterson Posts: 642
    sapperskunk wrote:

    What I would love to see though is the smiling ecstatic faces of those people that I knew when they first heard the news. But I can only imagine. Now we need to get the rest of those troops home, the quicker the better.

    I live about 10 minutes from Dearborn, MI. Those happy faces existed when that statue fell, and with the coverage they are showing on CNN tonight.

    Is it all worth it? Probably not- but at least a small positive has resulted.
  • dkst0426dkst0426 Posts: 523
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I can't believe it. Another fucking thread.
    STFU. You don't need to read any of it.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    dkst0426 wrote:
    STFU. You don't need to read any of it.

    Atleast title it "Another stupid thread about Saddam's execution" please :p
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • sapperskunksapperskunk Posts: 684
    Skitch Patterson wrote:
    I live about 10 minutes from Dearborn, MI. Those happy faces existed when that statue fell, and with the coverage they are showing on CNN tonight.

    Is it all worth it? Probably not- but at least a small positive has resulted.

    You know I don't really consider myself to be a sentimental person, but when Iraq had their first elections over a year ago, some expatriated Iraqi's who lived in Seattle FLEW to Los Angeles just to cast their votes. They interviewed one of the guys on the news, he said he would never wash his finger again. (dipped in ink).

    That made me feel so fucking unbelievably good it's not even funny. Everything I'd seen and done in that fuckin war felt really really good for a short while. I just wish some of my friends could have seen it, but I know they did in spirit.
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