What's your reaction to the capture of Saddam Hussein?

(published 22-Dec-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)

I appreciate the tough policy President Bush followed: keep searching until Saddam Hussein is found. Not one that was easy to pitch to critics as time went by. But American troops stuck to their mission and accomplished it. Flat out fantastic. But how would the critics respond? Howard Dean said at a fundraising concert, "He's a bad person and we're all better off with him in captivity. But you should know that my views on Iraq have not changed one bit." Swell. And the Reuters news agency ran this paragraph in a story about Palestinian gloom: "The former Iraqi ruler was a hero to many Palestinians for his stand against Israel and its U.S. ally, as well as for helping families of Palestinians dead in an uprising." This is the kind of thing I was expecting: "helping families...dead in an uprising." No mention until later in the story that they were dead because they were suicide bombers. Nauseating.

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