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| Obsequiousness Be Done |
| 2003-04-02 |
| SADDAM NOTE: Anne Garrells of NPR, one of the two remaining American reporters in Baghdad, noted this morning that Iraqi officials at press events have abandoned the formalistic obsequiousness with which they refer to Saddam. Till this weekend, every other Iraqi comment was Saddam this, our great leader that. Garrells just attended an Iraqi government press conference at which Saddam was never mentioned. To Best-Laid Plans it feels ever more significant that it's been twelve days since the "decapitation" attack and there has been no public image of Saddam speaking about any fact that has become known since then. |
| Posted by:Rawsnacks |
| #6 agreed Fred. If the intel was right - and it looks like it was, they might have scored a three-fer with that large a hit. What possible reason could Saddam have for not getting on TV to rally the troops? Other than that terrible skin decomposition thing going on? I hope we take Chem Ali alive though...let the Kurds have him to play with.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-02 21:09:24 |
| #5 I still think Uday is toe-tagged. Maybe (knock on wood) all three of them... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-02 20:30:07 |
| #4 I suspected Sodom was on life support in a bunker, too paranoid to see anyone except maybe his monster sons. Now that his bodyguard is looking for work, I think that first bombing was a BULLSEYE. |
| Posted by: Dixie Normus 2003-04-02 18:38:32 |
| #3 If this was Survivor, I think Anne is very close to getting voted off the tribe. Assuming Arnett is the other one, do you think he can win a personalized J-Dam? |
| Posted by: pj 2003-04-02 16:18:01 |
| #2 Well I'll be. Maybe they've finally given up any pretense that he still lives. One diligently hopes his corpse is busily feeding various types of insects and worms. |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-02 16:02:37 |
| #1 Given that the Iraqis monitor all of the journalists' transmissions out of the country, it'll be interesting to see/hear their response to Garrells' report. Boot her out? Try to refute the conclusion? Start being obsequious again? Do nothing different at all? Watch and see... |
| Posted by: jrosevear 2003-04-02 15:53:41 |