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- slugicide, on 10/12/2007, -6/+105That's nice. Now where the ***** is Osama bin Laden?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+99He better move it to a safe so Cheney can't get his hands on it.
- kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -6/+71"where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts..."
Man, that takes me back. When our country's biggest problem was who the president was sleeping with. 8 years of peace and prosperity... and we were actually working on balancing the budget....
Hey, do you remember when we used to talk about actually paying down the national debt?
It'll be a long time before America sees good times like the Clinton years again... - thepompano, on 10/12/2007, -23/+81Probably not, but it bothers me that anyone would take any pride in it.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
Bush said that, so its unlikely you will ever find out. - kremvax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43And it only cost us $300 *Billion* dollars, 3000 American soldiers' lives, 600,000 dead Iraqi civillians, and all of our allies except Great Britain.
I wonder if it was worth it. - belfastbiker, on 10/12/2007, -19/+54Jesus Christ on a stick, enough with the Lewinsky scandal.
You'd think repugs would have been shamed into never bringing up any scandal ever again by now. - averageAZNguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+39probably get buried for this but....why should anyone feel delight when one is responsible for executing a person, regardless of the person's history. He should be express relief he stopped a dictator, not joy. Whats delightful about keeping a pistol of a dictator, probably use by the dictator, and showing to people like its some sort of prize. and like slugicide said..."where the ***** is bin laden?" you know the guy who started all this. Bush should be feeling relief he stopped a dictator, tired because he cannot find the terrorist who bombed the twin towers, worried about the lives of the soldiers in Iraq, anything but delighted just because ONE bad man is gone.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -17/+46swiftekho wrote: "Knowing he brought justice to a man who is responsible for hundreds if not thousands of deaths has to give him a sense of accomplishment."
At what cost? The best study I've seen (by John Hopkins University) shows there have been 650,000 deaths in the three years since we invaded Iraq above and beyond what would have occurred under Saddam Hussein. To what purpose? Iraq is in an all out civil war with little hope of a stable government. We've found no significant ties to terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. At best the war is a brief distraction for terrorists and at worst it's a ripe new breeding ground for extremism. The war is only proving to increase Iran's influence in the area.
If by some miracle a stable, peaceful government emerges in Iraq perhaps it will all be worth it, but I just don't see that happening.
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2006/burnham_iraq_2006.html - LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36Sorry to hijack this thread, but it should be known that this article is dated quite a bit. "Posted Saturday, May 29, 2004"
I wonder if it is still held in the Oval Office now that Saddam is gone. - iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Reminds me of a Jack Handey Deep Thought
"I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and hand it to him." - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25broomett: "Can't wait for the first idiot to quote the ***** study about 600,000...or is it 750,000 by now Iraqis dea...or about 600 EVERY day...yeah...nice factual study that is."
I'm the idiot that posted the scholarly, peer reviewed study by a respected academic institution that is consistent with estimates from other sources and utilized the same methods used to determine fatalities in countless other conflicts. I hold no delusions that it is absolutely accurate or completely unbiased, but even if it is off by a factor of two or three would it cease to be tragic?
Please provide links to studies you think are more accurate, and I'd be happy to review them with an open mind. If you know the study to be so inaccurate I'm sure you've got some great sources. - reed311, on 10/12/2007, -23/+40But Clinton!!! (whine whine, cry cry)
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Anyone know what type of pistol it is, or have a pic?
- Koopa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I think, if that happened, the world would explode into a puff of irony.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16the toy only cost 450 billion and 3000 american lives
- SilenceGold, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15What would be better than shooting his own foot with Saddam's gun.
- Abjure, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12What the hell this is marked 2004. How the hell did this get to the front page?
- xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Dear god, I say we put him on trial for war crimes. ... (yes I live in the US).
- mabhatter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Because the previous owner was executed today by a court with less than stellar motives and proceedings. It's notable, and more than a little troubleing, that our prez my have a souvenir in his office.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19Wow. Am I reading some reasonable comments on Digg for once?
- Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Just like the bully who used to steal your lunch money.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -26/+35I hate Bush. I think he's American history's worst leader. I also think that Iraq is a disaster, and could tell it would be a disaster before the invasion began. But even I can find absolutely no fault in him keeping Saddam's pistol as a "souvenir". In fact, I'd be surprised if he refused to keep it.
He displays it "like a child"? Who the hell cares? It's a madman's pistol. Whether or not you think we should've invaded Iraq (and I think we should NOT have done so, as the price we paid and are paying still did not justify the war), Saddam Hussein was the head of a tyranical regime that murdered thousands of civilians, performed atrocities, and instigated ethnic cleansing. He's rotting in hell right now, and I'm glad for that. - chase001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You'll shoot your eye out! You'll Shoot your eye out! Now all Georgy needs is the Red Rider BB Gun.
- IronChef, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Maybe if we're lucky he'll use it on himself.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10When's he gonna mount Saddam's head mounted on the wall of his trophy room in Crawford?
- thepompano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@strabes&pabster
If you guys aren't trolling, then you're both FILLED with hate. Try considering that those "evil libs" are your fellow countrymen and there's close to 150 million of them, so if you ever feel like making your world a better place, the key is debate, not hate speech. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Which ones? You're gonna have to be more specific.
The thing I love about Digg (and hate about smaller sites like Reddit) is that a lot of people here have a lot of different opinions, and we all tend to meet somewhere in the middle a lot of the time. - jmknx01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's our president: born on third, thought he hit a triple.
- n13t2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6keep in mind this article is from 2004. maybe the president has a new memento...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dear President Bush:
Where's Osama?
***** off.
Sincerely,
TheToecutter - drmobutu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Confiscated the man's firearm...
an interesting choice for a souvenir
I bet that's kinda poetic
to a Texan. - kethraal, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12"I would show of the gun I took from the man that killed innocent men women and children."
Me too! Now where's George Bush's gun? - annonimality, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ bewareofmoose
Few people remember the Balkans war because it was such a swift and decisive victory. It was nice actually having a competent Commander in Chief at one time. - grammarpolice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@ pabster, you are a ***** moron. Get over yourself.
- goffy59, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Your criticizing Clinton for having an affair and lying about it. You may think all presidents are trustworthy, but I bet they all lied just as much as Clinton. This is the republicans only cut on Clinton. Other then that bush is still an ***** and still an idiot. I really don't care what side or what president we have, we will always be ***** in the ass by the government. Our privacy has gone out the window... and bush has made America more racist by combining Arabs with Terrorists. I consider what we are doing to Iraq an act of terrorism. We have no right to be there. The only thing they have come up as to a reason why is "we think they have wmd's and we need to impose democracy onto a civilization who is too primitive to live in such a way. Then again sometimes democracy sucks: My reasoning.... if 30% agree on something, and the other 70% don't, those 70% get what they want, and the millions of people (30%) get ***** in the ass because by all those other people. Why should people across this country be able to make decisions that effect me when they live nowhere near me. ***** ***** from the white house need to suck a dick and stop stealing our rights away from us. They could at least shut down the RIAA for lying about the money they lost, and lying about the money they have from all those poor family's. But no,, they have greed to worry about... gotta get that extra million even though I'm too ***** stupid to use a computer. (
- Judge373, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5War trophies are childish, especially when kept by a man who never fired a shot in battle, but only sent our boys over to Iraq to fight in his little adventure of a war which has now become a verifiable disaster.
- virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9And it wasn't a good idea to get Saddam out of there, he was the only one who kept those other countries on check, the WMD was a lie and as soon as everyone knew, chaos broke out.
- swiftekho, on 10/12/2007, -42/+47I think he takes pride in it because no one will cut him a break for anything he does. Knowing he brought justice to a man who is responsible for hundreds if not thousands of deaths has to give him a sense of accomplishment. It is probably one of the few things that give him reason to put up with the critics
- deskimo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10This isn't some game of cowboys and Indians. We're not in a saloon in the wild west, getting in duels and showing off the spoils we get from killing each other. This is 2006 for crissake. We're supposed to be smart and dignified.
Showing the pistol off demonstrates Bush's complete lack of understanding of the situation in Iraq. Saddam, the sectarian violence, Al Qaeda, Osama, etc etc etc etc are all *symptoms* of a cultural problem that we're simply exacerbating by treating this as a game of retribution and pennance. It isn't. The violence in Iraq right now is the product of a system of cultural forces, one that we have to understand and treat like we would an illness. Treating this like a military problem where one side "wins" and the other side "loses" is so besides the point it's absurd.
Step 1: Show the world we hold our own leaders accountable for their missteps by holding a thorough investigation into war intelligence and, if necessary, impeaching the president. - kroenecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5On the contrary it sounds like you get more enjoyment out of it.
- LeafsIn07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Did he get his money back when we took his gun away or did he lose the receipt? What is our return policy on the weapons we sell anyway?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6When the world is sick of our *****, and we're invaded, and he's executed for all of his crimes against humanity, I call dibbs on his gun.
- degree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Considering he's from Texas, it would most likely be guns, plural.
- Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Jesus. The problem with digg is the ***** commentary piled on top of almost every story posted here. Not in the comments themselves, but the garbage like "WOW, JUST WOW. BUSH IS THE DEVIL" or "OMG, THIS THE BIGGEST NEWS EVER! EVERYONE READ THIS AND PROTEST"
The sensationalist ***** attached to these stories all but makes digg the ***** national enquirer of the web.
WOW. JUST WOW. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -23/+27And why not, capturing and executing Saddam Hussein is one of the very few good things the Bush administration has done. The war was ill adviced and is disastrous, but getting rid of Saddam is a good thing no matter how one slice it.
- shellacked, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"We all know that Bush accomplishes more in one minute than you and your entire family will EVER accomplish in your life"
I can agree with that. In fact he's accomplished so much that I think I'll start a list:
1) crapped all over our constitution
2) instituted torture as a means of interrogation
3) effectively killed habeus corpus
4) allowed the creation of secret prisons
5) took our country to war illegally
6) ran up trillions of dollars in debt
7) killed 650,000 Iraqis
8) watched New Orleans drown while he sat on his ass doing nothing
9) drastically expanded presidential powers, taking us 10 steps closer to a totalitarian state
10) I guess I'll stop here, go read http://www.thousandreasons.org/
I sure hope he enjoys that pistol. As for accomplishments, bush has ***** so many things up that any drooling idiot eating doritos while drinking a 40 and watching Jerry Springer does more good for the world
Thanks dubbya, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4U.S. forces killed more people in 3 years over there than Saddam did in 20.
- forgiste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Darkjedi
Quoted from foolfromhell's post:
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
Bush said that, so its unlikely you will ever find out.
Man, he must be hard at work trying to find Bin Laden... - annonimality, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I have to agree with youvirtualball. As bad as Saddam was, he did maintain a secular state while surrounded by fundamentalist Islamic countries (Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran). Now that the Shiites are taking over Iraq that's all about to change.
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