Monday, December 15, 2003
Amazingly, it has taken less than two days for the anti-Americans in the mainstream press to salvage something from the capture of Saddam over the weekend.
Joy at the capture of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) gave way to resentment toward Washington Monday as Iraqis confronted afresh the bloodshed, shortages and soaring prices of life under U.S. occupation . . .
"I hope that we get the chance to try him our way, to let everyone who suffered make him taste what he had made us taste," said Ali Hussein, 29, a stationery shop owner who said he was still dizzy with joy.
"But whether he's in a hole or in jail, it does nothing for me today, it won't feed me or protect me or send my children to school," he said.
Twenty bucks says the reporter had to ask Ali a series of questions to get that particular response. Pathetic, it truly is pathetic.
As to the
Steve