An Anniversary to Remember!

[cwo_ghwebb]

For a man who killed tens of thousands of people and tortured his enemies, Saddam Hussein was taken into custody in a surprisingly peaceful manner, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes."

Eight months after Baghdad fell, U.S. soldiers found the disheveled former leader of Iraq six feet under, hiding in a hole in the ground. Saddam was captured Saturday night about nine miles from his hometown of Tikrit and on the other side of the Tigris River from one of his lavish palaces.

Saddam had a pistol but was taken into custody without firing it.

"Here was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all," Rumsfeld said.

"In the last analysis, he seemed not terribly brave," he said.


CNN.com - Rumsfeld: In the end, Saddam 'not terribly brave' - Dec. 14, 2003



Five years ago tonight, the United States military acted on a tip and peered into a narrow hole in the ground to find a cowering dictator hiding from the disaster he had wrought on his own country. The capture of Saddam Hussein set off celebrations across the US and Iraq and brought us the apex of national unity on the military adventure that ended the reign of one of the bloodiest tyrants of our generation. In the end, Saddam couldn’t even bring himself to fight with the pistol he held in his hand:

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Good riddance to bad rubbish!

[itsbob (Premo)]

The only correction I have is HUNDREDS of thousands, not 10's of thousands, died at his hands.

After we invaded teams of investigators searched the deserts for mass graves, they found over 150, with over 350,000 bodies. All people that Saddam or his sons had ordered killed, for whatever nonsensical reason they could think of.

This does not include the 2 Million people that died in the Iran Iraq war, nor the kurds he gassed during the same time. Nor does it include all the mass graves we didn't find.

We went in looking for WMD's and found three of them in Saddam and his two sons.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Hussein's capture was one of the bright spots of that year. And so quickly forgotten.