Saddam -- check. Weapons of mass destruction -- ummm...no.
Link to 9/11 -- nope.
False premise for starting this war -- absolutely.
So what now? I suppose that Karl Rove is planning the schedule right now. They will keep Saddam in an undisclosed, secure location for a few months, have a show trial next summer, sentence him to death, and hold a public execution in Baghdad a few weeks before next November's election.
Of course I am happy that they captured him. Maybe this will expedite the end of the US occupation, but I doubt it.
So far it has taken us nine months, the lives of 541 coalition troops, 2591 wounded coalition troops, thousands of Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the war, thousands of dead Iraqi soldiers, and the scorn of the world to catch one dictator that was supoosedly a imminent threat to the United States and Europe. Was it worth it? Was it worth it to set a precedent for "preemptive war"?
Well, we will see what happens.
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