Monday, December 15, 2003

The White House invoked a "no gloating" rule Sunday after Saddam Hussein's capture, but there's little doubt that the development was sweet revenge for President Bush.
Bush announced the capture, without any sign of emotion, in a three-minute speech shortly before Sunday afternoon football games started.

"He's looking crazy," said James DuPrez, buying cigarettes while he described the video footage of Saddam on television to those waiting in the queue behind him. "Hair's crazy, beard's crazy, eyes crazy. Just plain crazy."

Along with the $750,000 in cash, two AK 47 machine guns and pistol found with Saddam, the U.S. intelligence official confirmed that operatives found a briefcase with Saddam that contained a letter from a Baghdad resistance leader. Contained in the message, the official said, were the minutes from a meeting of a number of resistance leaders who came together in the capital. The official said the names found on this piece of paper will be valuable and could lead to the capture of insurgency leaders around the Sunni Triangle.

The official elaborated: “Have we actually cut the head of the snake or is he just an idiot hiding in a hole?”

mred: btw - where were the cameras when saddam was found?

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