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2005-03-09 Iraq-Jordan

Public version of Saddam capture "fiction"

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Posted by Steve 2005-03-09 9:01:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And the name of the KIA "Sudanese" Marine?

That would be a quick first-pass test of this story.

Posted by .com 2005-03-09 9:21:57 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:21:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This "story" begs so many questions that...BTW did I ever tell you that I interviewed Genghis Khan a while back?

Posted by Groluck Ulutle8634 2005-03-09 9:29:42 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:29:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought it was Army Special Forces who caught Sammy. Help me out here, is that right?

Posted by Spot 2005-03-09 9:37:56 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:37:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It was an Army guy on Day 2, but it was a Marine on Day 1. The Army's superior public relations machine rode over the Marine Corps effort to garner the glory.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-09 9:49:36 AM|| 2005-03-09 9:49:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Groluck Ulutle8634, since you interviewed him perhaps you know the answer. Is the name pronounced Gang-is Khan, or Jen-gis Khan?

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-03-09 10:25:20 AM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-03-09 10:25:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Army's superior public relations machine

WTF? :) The greenies are light years ahead in PR machinery, ask Harry Truman, who swore the Marines Divisions had mobile press release batallions.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-09 10:33:46 AM|| 2005-03-09 10:33:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Heh.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-09 10:44:44 AM|| 2005-03-09 10:44:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Shipman says:

The Army's superior public relations machine WTF? :) The greenies are light years ahead in PR machinery, ask Harry Truman, who swore the Marines Divisions had mobile press release batallions.

Try this: think in a single image about American Armed Forces. What will you think about? Not an image about Omaha Beach, Bastogne or Korea. Ten to one you will think about that photo. The one at Iwo Jima.

An American politician (Truman?) who was a proponent of dissolving the USMC into the Army said bitterly: that photo ensures there will still be a Marine Corps two centuries from now.

Posted by JFM 2005-03-09 11:39:27 AM|| 2005-03-09 11:39:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 i think it was a marine general who said that JFM.

actually what must have happened is that the USMC, First Arab Detachment captured Saddam. Then dug the hole and buried him, cause well, theyre Marines, and they didnt know what else to do with him. Then the Army found him and figured that sending him to Baghdad made sense.
No?

Of course we shouldnt forget that it was the Army Air Force that won the battle of Midway:)

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-09 2:10:05 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:10:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 If this turned out to be true, would no one else be bothered that we were "fed" a different story?

Posted by Jules 187 2005-03-09 2:15:31 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:15:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 First pathetic attempt to rehabilitate Sammy's rep?

Lotsa luck.

Posted by mojo 2005-03-09 2:52:50 PM|| 2005-03-09 2:52:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Jules - I'd be flabbergasted, first. I, for one, didn't care whether he fought "courageously", like his stupid sons, or hid out in a well, like a "coward". He's caught, period. I could see where some might want to add a bit of humiliation, but how owuld it be worth the effort? And HOW would you keep all the people that actually were there quiet? I'm not a big fan of conspiricies, because so few people can keep their mouths shut!

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-09 3:00:47 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:00:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry, I wanted to go back and correct the spelling of would (be worth the effort) and conspiracy. Wrong button.

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-09 3:02:12 PM|| 2005-03-09 3:02:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 [5]>rjschwarz
GANGA-Khan on his moody/bad hair days (uknow,meth-fuled-rape-pillage and wasting tour days) but otherwise his intimantes (inner circle) called him Jenny-Khan. He was a pussy cat.

Posted by Groluck Ulutle8634 2005-03-09 4:25:02 PM|| 2005-03-09 4:25:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Samir's version.

Posted by twobyfour 2005-03-09 4:37:31 PM|| 2005-03-09 4:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Jules, if this was a hoax (like many other conspiracy theories) it was a well kept secret. Do I think that our goverment is capable of deception? Hell yes, but what was gained by the way he was captured and where is the all-Arab Marine detachment? Maybe I am 'racists' but I would believe it more if some SpecOps guy from Tennessee came forward and said it was a hoax. no offense but I don't think the Arabs have a good track record on telling the truth (see Jihad unspun, Al Arabia, Al Jezeria, etc.).

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-03-09 5:41:55 PM|| 2005-03-09 5:41:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Fact checking.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-09 7:48:55 PM|| 2005-03-09 7:48:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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