"We got 'im...?"

According to foreign news sources, U.S. military and intelligence forces did not find and capture Saddam Hussein. Rather, U.S. soldiers followed directions given by Kurdish forces to locate and drag the drugged, befuddled Hussein from the hole in the ground where the Kurds had imprisoned him since one of his own tribesmen betrayed him out of revenge.

London: Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurdish forces, then drugged and handed over to the American forces as a revenge against the rape of a tribal chief's daughter by the tyrant's psychopathic eldest son Uday, a media report said today.

The full story of the fallen dictator's capture last Saturday in a "spider hole" near his birthplace of Tikrit exposes the version peddled by Americans as incomplete.

According to the report in The Sunday Express, Saddam had already been handed over to Kurdish forces, who then brokered a deal with US commanders.

He was drugged and abandoned, ready for the American troops to recover him.

So, President Bush lied again when he said, "Yesterday, on December 13th, at 8:30 p.m. Iraqi time, Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces."

Worse, most major U.S. media outlets are complicit in his lie by failing to publish and broadcast the truth.

Real story here, here, and here.

Feel safer yet...?


Exactly how is this going to make us safer?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 — Pentagon officials said today that Americans in some areas of the country could expect to see more warplanes in the skies during the holiday season now that a higher antiterrorism alert level is in effect.

"They may see additional air patrols over select cities and facilities, an increase in the air-defense posture here in Washington, D.C., and combat aircraft could be put on a higher alert at different air bases throughout the country," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers, said at a Pentagon briefing.

Yeah, right, al Qaeda's going to attack us with a squadron of fighter bombers.

Considering the safety record of the U.S. military, more warplanes in the skies above American cities probably increases the risk of casualties.

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