the dissident frogman

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A comment by Howard E. Morseburg on Mistakes ♠ Erreurs

I remember (and this goes back many many years) the story of a challenge to the U.S. Customs service by the Captain of a ship, that he would hide a pie before they arrived in port the next time and they'd not be able to find it. Then didn't, even though they were familiar, thoroughly familiar, with ships of all types and typical hiding places. He then climbed to the top of the mast, and brought down the pie. Even WMD can be hidden. All Saddam had to do was to execute the men who hid them. No witnesses, no one but Saddam and his sons know where they are. Or the Chinese cook in whose cabin they found a packet of heroin. The guy began hysterically screaming, "More, more, more," while pointing at a locker in the corner, and as the Custom's inspector turned around to look, grabbed the heroin from his hand and quickly threw it out the window. Clever, eh? So was Saddam. But, right now Iraqis no longer have the fear the torture chambers, or firing squads. YOU'RE RIGHT, they're free. There was no other way to get rid of Saddam and his equally tyrannical sons. The least Chiraq could do, the very least, would be to say, "Well, I still do not agree, but at least you've accomplished one very important thing for freedom-loving people everywhere, you've set the Iraqi people free. Congratulations." And, it is just as we helped the French to once again be free. That was 60 years ago, and I was one of those there. We didn't need to do that either. But we did.

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