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Dear Readers,
I was planning on writing some cynical piece about the capture of Saddam Hussein and how the Bush administration's foreign policy has failed in so many spectacular ways (you know, the squandering of world-wide support of the United States after the 9/11 attacks, the non-existent "imminent threat" posed by Saddam Hussein's still-to-be-discovered weapons of mass destruction, the mess in Afghanistan, etc.) but it's fucking Christmas/Hanukkah/etc. for christsake. Rather than drag people down with the usual harping and carping, let's turn to wishes and dreams, specifically...
Ken!'s Wishes, Hopes & Dreams For The Future
I wish all the children of the world could get together, hold hands and sing.
I hope they sing "The Thong Song".
I dream of the day that Saturday Night Live will be funny again.
I wish Americans would figure out that freedom and safety are mutually exclusive; you must always sacrifice one for another. All this talk of freedom of late is but Orwellian doublespeak.
I hope U.S. high schools will teach George Orwell's 1984 so more people would understand what I mean when I say "Orwellian doublespeak". At least read Animal Farm, people.
I dream of a long, tropical vacation.
I wish those jerkwads in H2's would get a fucking life.
I hope they realize everyone else thinks their dicks must be tiny.
I dream of a world where everyone tried to understand each other better.
I wish I could slow down the pace of life; sometimes I feel like chunks of it are blurring past us.
I hope everyone gets to spend time with those who mean the most. Screw the mall, let's visit friends.
I dream of world peace, I hope it would come to pass and I wish you all a good holiday season.
Ken!
P.S. Bush's PR machine breaks down again. This just came across the news wires:
Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops
Sat Dec 20,11:00 PM ET
LONDON, (AFP) - Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British Sunday newspaper said.
Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, "exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".
A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until he negotiated a deal.
The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.
An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express: "Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence. We knew that someone would eventually take their revenge, it was just a matter of time."
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