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Five Years Ago, Saddam Hussein Was Free

Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture. From Hot Air:

Five years ago tonight, the United States military acted on a tip and peered into a narrow hole in the ground to find a cowering dictator hiding from the disaster he had wrought on his own country. The capture of Saddam Hussein set off celebrations across the US and Iraq and brought us the apex of national unity on the military adventure that ended the reign of one of the bloodiest tyrants of our generation. In the end, Saddam couldn’t even bring himself to fight with the pistol he held in his hand.

I, for one, am quite glad he's gone.

Ed Morrissey also gives us South Park's coverage of the event (it's in two parts):

Posted on Sun, December 14, 2008 at 09:06AM by Registered CommenterPaul Ibrahim in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

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