Bush: Saddam `trying to Stir Up Trouble' (per Belleview)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/7182557.htm

ALPINE, Calif. - Facing rising casualties in Iraq, President Bush said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein is "trying to stir up trouble" for the American-led occupation but vowed that the United States will track him down.

"We'll get him, we'll find him," Bush said in his most unequivocal acknowledgement that the administration believes Saddam is alive and playing some sort of role in the armed opposition.

Six months after declaring an end to major combat, Bush said, "We are at war."

For a long time after the U.S. airstrikes in Baghdad, the administration refused to say whether Saddam was dead or alive. But that position has changed in recent weeks. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last week that attacks against Americans were practically inevitable as long as Saddam remained on the loose.

"The fact that he's alive is unhelpful," Rumsfeld said.

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On edit, this was intended for LBN, but it is so ridiculous that it more appropriately belongs here.

[Malva Zebrina]

1. this guy is kidding right?

he is a president, albeit an unelected one, and this is the way he talks? This guy is the in the gutter and the dregs on humanity. Stoopid.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. Makes ya' proud to be an American, don't it? n/t

[Deja Q]

3. Said by the man who shook Saddam's hand no less...

Makes America look extremely unreliable by the rest of the world...

Still, they're full of shit. Saddam, alive or dead, won't stop people from hating or attacking US and its interests (which are only two: Israel and oil. Tony Blair will be in for a shock when Bush* betrays him... or, rather, if - it depends on when the UK needs help and the US is "too busy" or "too broke to do it" as usual...)

The US needs to change how it thinks and acts. Otherwise it's only going to anger everybody...