For those who didn't know...

[heidi]

US forces claim they captured Saddam Hussein overnight.

Comments

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

Very cool.

What's your oppinion?

[aliel.livejournal.com]

My socks have been rocked.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

If it's him.

I wouldn't trust that lot not to pull a paid Saddamalike mouthpiece out of a hat.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Where were you when you found out Saddam Hussein had been captured?

Reading LiveJournal.

First big event about which I can say that.

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! I was thinking the same thing!

Not only that, but how much do you want to bet that the shrub is going to use this as part of his "re-election" platform?

[athena-arena.livejournal.com]

Reading BBC news website for me, in fact.

I kind of wish my answer was a bit more original: I was bouncing on a pogo stick, I was sitting in a tree, I was tied to a lamp post after a heavy night out wearing a policeman's helmet and a pair of fishing waders... but no. I was sitting in front of my computer, as ususal, having just woken up on a sunday morning and reading the news before I got down to some work. urgh.

I am far too plugged in to be highly original.

Ah, the days of super sonic media.

[aliel.livejournal.com]

Oh, he'll use it, of course. But we are almost positive it's him. Remember, they're DNA testing it.

[ladylaw7.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly...though I'm inclined to believe that it really is him for the sole reason that if it were a fake, they would have "found" him a few hours earlier (in time to make the Sunday paper).

[sevensickles.livejournal.com]

Well, I was listening to the Cathedral across the street's wedding bells (and reading live journal).

In todays world of technology, I have a feeling many people will have the same response, on the internet, which limits people's activities to being somewhere in front of a computer. Not quite as flexible as the radio, which is how many people heard about Kennedy.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Tested by completely independent incorruptible testers? with independently certified 'original' and 'new model' DNA samples? using a completely transparent and publicised protocol?

Maybe, maybe just then I might begin to credit the results. And that's still a 'maybe'. There's been far too much bad 'DNA identification' evidence accepted by the courts already.

And even that's granting that they haven't actually had him tucked away for months already while they exploit the situation.

Unduly sceptical? I don't think so. With governments like that, I think it's nothing but sensible to doubt their every word, their every action.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* But then wouldn't any thoughtful person have said "Even they wouldn't have been so stupid as to time it just to make the papers"?

What wouldn't a government stoop to in its own self-interest? they must have at least one civil servant capable of reading and understanding The Prince.