Well, here's a story American media will conveniently ignore. After chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" for days following Saddam Hussein's capture, the American media will have to eat crow because American troops didn't even capture Hussein first -- the Kurds did. According to a British newspaper, Hussein was "captured" by American troops only after he had been captured by Kurdish forces, drugged, and left for the Yanks.
"Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer."
Two more US troops were killed Sunday, and at the same time Bush's approval rating over the handling of Iraq sored to 60%, according to an ABC News/ Washington Post poll.
Let me see if I have this correct: America invaded a country illegally, deposed a dictator that America had supported for a decade and refused to remove in 1991 when Bush Sr. had the chance, handed out lucrative no-bid countracts to "rebuild" the country to friends of the Bush administration, and then pretended to capture the dictator it propped up, when in reality it wasn't the 130,000 American troops on the ground in Iraq who captured Hussein but poor Kurdish forces.
I'm not sure why I read the news anymore.
1:39:38 AM 
|
