The Most Useless Media Event of the Year to Happen Tonight

Bush is very proud that Saddam Hussein is captured even though this event has nothing to do with the 9/11 attack on America and does nothing what so ever to make us safer and hasn't really improved the lives of Iraqis, making the lives of Iraqi women worse.

But tonight (by 10 PM Easter time or 6 AM local Bagdhad time) there will be a circus of back patting as Saddam Hussein is executed in the name of false democracy. Somehow this will be some kind of "Mission Accomplished" moment.

But what I want to know is this:

Where is Osama bin Laden?

Why did we ever invade Iraq in the first place?

What is our exit strategy?

When will we get back to fighting al-Qaeda?

Meanwhile, the White House is dodging these very questions by saying that the capture of bin Laden is merely a "success that hasn't happened yet."

Yes...five fucking years after the attacks.

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Submitted by mole333 on 29 December 2006 - 8:20pm.
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What a way to disguise failure

Submitted by j. brotherlove (not verified) on 29 December 2006 - 9:44pm.

Gotta love that quote: A "success that hasn't happened yet." I think we should all followin our leader's footseps and use this excuse the next time our boss asks why a certain task hasn't been completed. I mean, if it's good enough for the government...

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