Tim Blair

Make it a double, eh Tim?

Merry Xmas to us all.

Strangely all the left wing blogs that I have been to have not mentioned Saddams capture yet. They still seem to be sulking.

Just a short note to all commenters:

Thank you. You people rock.

God bless you Tim. A great night. And it was a pleaure to share just a little piece of it with you.

All the best to you and yours.

Meet me in five minutes.

Wooo hooo! Gonna be hard to talk about the iraq "quagmire" now, isn't it? Gonna be harder still to keep Bush out of office in 2004, isn't it? What a coup and morale-booster for sane iraqis working to rebuild their country this has to be. Can you say crimes-against-humanity trial? "Tired and resigned to his fate", Sanchez said about Saddam. Wow. What great news.

Strangely all the left wing blogs that I have been to have not mentioned Saddams capture yet. They still seem to be sulking.

Must suck being a lefty right now. I mean, even more than usual.

"U.S. officials said they still haven't decided what to do with Saddam Hussein now that he's been captured, but one option is putting him before a special tribunal established just days ago."

It's a legal quagmire. It will be fun to see who is first to run to his defense.

"'Yes Saddam is a monster' but it would be prejudicial to actually say that in court"

I thought Allen (Alan?) Ginsberg.

na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye, na na na na, na na na na, hey hey goodbye

Galloway, Fisk, Adams, Scheer,Rall et al: will need to be put on a suicide watch after this...Bye BYe Saddam!!!!This is the greatest news....

'Strangely all the left wing blogs that I have been to have not mentioned Saddams capture yet. They still seem to be sulking'.

you know what, Margo, Adams, and others of their ilk criticise Bush and Howard, yet, what if anything, have they ever done to help make the world a 'better place', to have the courage of thier convictions and 'do' something?

Well done to all those who had vision and were prepared to fight for something that was going to make a difference to the lives of others, as opposed to sitting in a cushy office, clutching a decent salary.

Tim,

Surely you must be aware that any Junta that would steal an election and hold a fake turkey platter would also fake a Saddam capture because the Halliburton Crisis of Treason and Theft was set to bring down the illegal occupation in DC so they needed to 'capture' their fake Saddam clone/puppet. Now who's being naive?

Dave
Occupied America

"you know what, Margo, Adams, and others of their ilk criticise Bush and Howard, yet, what if anything, have they ever done to help make the world a 'better place', to have the courage of thier convictions and 'do' something?
Well done to all those who had vision and were prepared to fight for something that was going to make a difference to the lives of others, as opposed to sitting in a cushy office, clutching a decent salary."

I could not agree more. Well said Nic. I think it really does come down to the fact that throughout history, it has not been such people as these that have made a difference, or improved anyone's lot. They have been the do-nothings, the belly-achers, the complainers and the hand-wringers.

This night we have have been fortunate enough to witness another step forward taken for humanity, and it was forged by the bold; who dared mightily, and thus won the hearts of men. (and women! ;-))

I got up early on sunday morning, but did not turn on the TV. I took a leak, scrambled some eggs, and sat down at my computer. Drudge had not reported any news woth looking at, so I started to roll through my favorites list. I opened up Tim's blog, and saw his notes on Saddam's capture. I thought that this was a BS story. After all, Drudge had not reported it, nor had my local New Jersey newspaper site reported it. For the hell of it, I clicked over to the BBC site, and there was the picture of Saddam, looking for all the world like a wino who just had his last bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 swiped from him. My eyes welled up with tears of joy. We got him. We finally got the bastard. I ran downstairs and turned on the tv.

Tim, I am a regular visitor to your site. I cannot say that I follow all the ins and outs of Australian politics that you write about, and I must admit that although I did not really care who won the rugby world cup, I rooted for the English in a half assed manner. Despite all of that, you should know this: Decades from now, when my grandchildren ask me how I learned of the capture of the tyrant, I will tell them the story of Tim Blair and his website.

Saddam's capture is good but...

These are just some unorganized idle thoughts before I've had a cup of coffee. Capturing Saddam is a good thing - he was a bad guy. I'm really glad he was captured and not killed.

But, it really doesn't change much. Capturing Saddam isn't going to end the resistance to the US occupation in Iraq. It may improve things slightly, or it could even make it worse, but the net effect will probably be negligible. Saddam was a bad guy, but it isn't clear he's any worse of a guy than some of the folks who are a part of our "Coalition of the Willing," so this pretense of moral clarity, etc... is ridiculous.

Saddam wasn't a threat to us. This was a war of choice and we made a bad choice (and many more bad choices subsequently). Kosovo was also a war of choice. Whether or not that was a bad choice, consider the disparity in the media coverage of those wars.

And, cynical me just has to ask - who's the enemy now? The base needs one.

Did they really call it "operation Red Dawn?" oy

-Atrios 8:46 AM

I'm a little skeptical about the intelligence report of Atta in Baghdad but if it turns out to be true this, along with Saddam's capture, will deal a one-two knockout punch to anti-war arguments. The left will never admit to being wrong of course, but this would go a long way towards justifying the war in the minds of most moderates who had misgivings about it.

I for one know what to do with him. Let him loose in Baghdad and with a camera attached. And you thought Kill Bill was violent!

Can I get my free oil now?

God Bless the soldiers of the US 4th Infantry Division, and those who had the courage to deploy them.

Today the world is a better place.

Ross, Matt,

you seem to have a lot of anger in your lives. By the way, the left is not sulking. For example, I am overjoyed Hussein will see justice.

Randall, how is this a "knock-out punch"? It hasn't changed the historical record. It hasn't made anti-war arguments "wrong". It is a good thing, but does nothing for pro-war arguments.

Lucky for Saddam he fell into US hands, they've been propping him up for decades.

I saw the press conference where they announced it officially... As soon as the video appeared, people in the press pool started cheering, & mid-way through, people where shouting in Arabic 'death to saddam' (they didn't wait for the end of it).

Sure, Miranda; that's why he was found with Russian weapons. Because the United States was propping him up.

Damn fool.

"It hasn't changed the historical record. It hasn't made anti-war arguments "wrong"."

Fathead, you are dead right. The capture of Hussein hasn't made the anti-war 'arguments' wrong. They were very very very very wrong right from the beginning. I am very glad to see a lefty scum appreciating this. Maybe one day you will grow up and see the light.

Fatfingers- Anger? Me? You are confusing anger with pettyness.