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tfprojectviewer · 07-24-2003, 12:11 AM

4 rats holed up. 120 Yanks blasted their hidey-hole for 4 hours. Ha! We showed them! DEAD! Hooray, hooray! Wave the flags!
BUT...
What would our perception be if it were 4 US GI's who held out for 4 hours against a constant barrage? We would literally award them medals.

What would I draw if I were an Arab political cartoonist? Images of "The Alamo" keep coming to mind.

They were surrounded by an overwhelming force. Couldn't we smoke them out with tear gas or stink bombs or something? Couldn't we have started pulling down the walls after shutting off the utilities? If they kept shooting after they were fully exposed we could knock them senseless with our rubber bullets. What about waiting a week and starving them out? Flooding them? Etc. Etc.

Sadam's sons are corpses. We have DNA evidence - oops, that isn't completely convincing (remember OJ?). A captured General who said the pictures were them - oops, jail house informants sometimes have ulterior motives.

I wanted to see them in handcuffs. Dirty, grimy, maybe even bewildered. Heads low or held high, it wouldn't matter - and bullies usually cave when they face superior numbers. I wanted the Arab world to see them in handcuffs - no lingering doubts possible. And just maybe we get to learn something useful about Sadam.

07-24-2003, 12:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
tfprojectviewer Upright	Sadam's Sons are DEAD! Hooray? or... 4 rats holed up. 120 Yanks blasted their hidey-hole for 4 hours. Ha! We showed them! DEAD! Hooray, hooray! Wave the flags! BUT... What would our perception be if it were 4 US GI's who held out for 4 hours against a constant barrage? We would literally award them medals. What would I draw if I were an Arab political cartoonist? Images of "The Alamo" keep coming to mind. They were surrounded by an overwhelming force. Couldn't we smoke them out with tear gas or stink bombs or something? Couldn't we have started pulling down the walls after shutting off the utilities? If they kept shooting after they were fully exposed we could knock them senseless with our rubber bullets. What about waiting a week and starving them out? Flooding them? Etc. Etc. Sadam's sons are corpses. We have DNA evidence - oops, that isn't completely convincing (remember OJ?). A captured General who said the pictures were them - oops, jail house informants sometimes have ulterior motives. I wanted to see them in handcuffs. Dirty, grimy, maybe even bewildered. Heads low or held high, it wouldn't matter - and bullies usually cave when they face superior numbers. I wanted the Arab world to see them in handcuffs - no lingering doubts possible. And just maybe we get to learn something useful about Sadam.