Comments on: Desperate Saddam Offers Americans Deal

Desperate Saddam Offers Americans Deal

stew560 — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 19:47:00 -0800

Desperate Saddam Offers Americans Deal. Wait...no...move along...nothing to see here...move along please...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:30:29 -0800

Well, it is a tabloid, so I'll wait for more reliable info before I put any stock in it. (last week at the supermarket checkout all the tabloids screamed about exlusive photos of J Lo and Ben's wonderful wedding (that was cancelled days before) -- must be tough making up stories and getting them to print before the truth happens)

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:38:54 -0800

400 pound baby is love child of Elvis and Hillary! Sir Edmund Hillary, who married Elvis last week in Toronto! And we have photos of it all.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:44:26 -0800

~~NewsFilter!~~ Er...I mean...TabloidFilter! Still, it will be interesting to see if this story develops "legs" and gains credibility.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:57:49 -0800

I blindingly believe it so much that nobody can tell me its not true. Nobody!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:16:08 -0800

presently, we seem to be mapping the outer limits of the sundaymirror.co.uk's webserving capabilities.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:37:22 -0800

the outer limits I've got the horizontal!!

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:37:24 -0800

Come on. Not that I put too much faith in tabloids, here or there (though the line distinguishing yellow journalism from the rest is blurring more and more, I'd say...), BUT You can't convince me that taking Saddam by force would be better than negotiating with him for his surrender. Given the chance, the administration should jump at it. Just think of the number of fanatics it would disempower. If I were a statistician, I'd wager the lives of american troops that alone would save is substantial. If we triangulated his position, we'd just blow the shit out of the area, no? Squish him like a bug, and then people could deny it he was there, that he was killed, etc... His surrender would show him to all that he's gone, which is really the hump that the populace needs to get on with their lives and start policing themselves more effectively. So long as there's the remote possibility that US troops might withdraw due to casualties, and Saddam might be back in power again, people will be hesitant, shall we say, to aid their liberators...

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:49:41 -0800

bush would much rather imprison saddam at area 51 with the aliens and that guy who invented a water-powered car, and then mount an agressive expansion of his War On Brown People With A Different God.

By: skallas

skallas — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:04:21 -0800

>nothing to see here...move along please... No, no. Its called negotiating. You know, like buying a used car.

By: magikeye

magikeye — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:17:26 -0800

sounds to me like the u.s. gov. accepted the agreement and don't want people to know so that they can't get blamed when he's mysteriously assassinated in belarus. i don't trust any of these people.

By: fullerine

fullerine — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:48:39 -0800

UK Tabloids are slightly different to the US supermarket tabloids to be honest. The mirror is a left-wing populist paper which was dragged into a price/ideological war with Murdoch's rightwing populist Sun and has been trying to regain some of its previous credibility ever since. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. So dismissing this as another Batboy story doesn't wash to be honest. However much of a wounded animal the paper is compared to its more illustrious past, it does occasionally pull off some amazing investigative journalism. Whether this is one such case it remains to be seen. Personally, I can't believe the US Govt would take such a ridiculous political risk, there again these are the Freedom Fries people, so anything is possible.

By: riviera

riviera — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:35:23 -0800

The byline is 'Paul Martin', and that should really have made the news editor think twice here. I'm surprised he hasn't quoted Sayed Anwar for corroboration.

By: banished

banished — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:00:33 -0800

move along...nothing to see here...move along please... OH MY GOD A TERRIBLE PLANE CRASH! crowd around everyone, comon, don't be shy, crowd around, crowd around, come here, crowd around

By: Witty

Witty — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:22:52 -0800

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:03:45 -0800

It's a Paul Martin story. Indeed, just move along.

By: LouReedsSon

LouReedsSon — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:11:50 -0800

Which link was the tabloid? :)