Anybody feel safer now that Saddam is captured?

[Bozita]

I don't.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Nope.

[kalian]

2. Are you kidding?

I'm in awe about how well the administration can manipulate the
American public.
Its a sam of monumental proportions. Hitler would have been
proud.

[a_lil_wall_fly]

3. How many variations do you know of ....NO!!!!!

Saddam was a cruel evil madman...but how many others can still inflect this reign of cancerous evil on the human race.

[blondeatlast]

4. No, but I'm not an Iraqi citizen.

I'm fairly certain that most Iraqis do feel safer. That works for me.

[G_j]

5. dupe

there are at least two other threads asking the exact same question.

[sexybomber]

6. Less safe, actually.

Because now I think Bush is going to get a second term.

[jenk]

7. of course, I do!!!!

Who knows what terror Saddam could've been planning in his sinister mud hut, who knows how much lice he could've spread with that beard!!!

[creativelcro]

8. He had a gun, man....

:)

[Salviati]

9. I'm certainly glad he's been captured...

But it doesn't mean that we, our soldiers, or even the iraqis are any safer. My fears are laid out somewhat in this article:

http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=3988761

"It won't affect those by Iraqi or Arab mujahideen and might increase them because those who did not want to be branded as supporters of Saddam might now join a resistance with a more nationalist dimension," he said.

...

Even the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq conceded that Saddam's capture did not necessarily mean resistance would end.

"We do not expect at this point in time that we will have a complete elimination of those attacks," Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez told reporters in Baghdad.

...

"But the temptation of Bush, facing a re-election campaign, will be to call this victory and cut and run. That would be a disaster for Iraq, for the Middle East and for the strategic interests of the United States in the region and beyond."

[gulliver]

10. It's a Pyrrhic victory.

No. I actually feel less safe now because a splashy capture like this may give a lot of people who don't know any better a false sense of security. I feel like Bush the quack put us on a pack-a-day cigarette habit to cure cancer. Now we're smiling because we coughed up a piece of lung.

The capture of Saddam is a non-negative at best.

[Cheswick2.0]

11. I never felt unsafe

:shrug:

I did however feel disgusted at all the american and Iraqi dead and will continue to do so.

[Bozita]

12. This is a dupe

Please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=903788&mesg_id=903788

My apologies.

[Chico Man]

13. I do feel good about this

Just because I hated when Saddam used to show up on our news back in the day and threaten the US. At least we don't have to deal with that any more. I realize that the end does not justify the means. However, I must be truthful and tell you that I do feel a weight taken off by his capture.

Every time Saddam used to show up on the news (even back in the Clinton era) it gave me the creeps. I was worried that our confrontation with Saddam was going to be the beginning of the end. But that seem not to be the case any more. Maybe the resistance will continue with no "token" leader. But without a true leader, I seriously see no chance of that happening.

So, yes, I am happy to have this guy taken down once and for all so we don't have to deal with him any more. Will it make us safer? Well that bould be a pre-mature judgement. It remains to be seen.

I do know that there are no evil dictators besides the leader of N. Korea openly defying the US and trying to scare us with threats.

It is an interesting time indeed.

[moondust]

14. Why? It has nothing to do with terrorism. n/t

[Devlzown]

15. Oh yeah.

The guy down the road probably does too. See, I've been off my meds for a while and I got to thinking how I could help in the war on terror. I decided that if I was going to help find Saddam, I was gonna have to start thinking like Saddam and I couldn't think of a better place to hide out than a trailer right here in Mississippi. So there's this guy at the end of the road who lives in this trailer, right? Well me and some of the local boys have been going out there and shooting at him with our pellet guns and chasing him around with our pit bulls. That fella sure can run! You think he might be Osama?

[youngred]

16. living a few blocks from the WH

No, I don't feel any less or more safe than I did last night

[snoochie]

17. Now THAT's funny!

This really brings into focus just how much of a threat Saddam was to US citizens.

This is great news people. Osama is back in the spotlight. Al Qaeda is back in the spotlight. Now our country can go back to focusing on investigating the intelligence and policy failures that allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen. Now we can focus on our struggling economy and the rising jobless and newly homeless Americans.

Now we can focus on removing the 'US Enablers Only' sign off the occupation, and getting our troops home.

[virtualobserver]

18. now that Saddam's forces on the Canadian and Mexican border.....

have been recalled, and his fleet is sailing back to IRAQ......

and they took his pistol and the two rifles from the muddy basement that he was living in....

Yes, I feel much safer.

[RandomUser]

19. It makes me feel more optimistic

Saddam was not an imminent threat, and thus not a factor in the domestic security situation the way Osama Bin Laden was. His capture has no bearing on whether I feel safer in the U.S. But his capture does make me more optimistic about the mess in Iraq.

His capture won't solve all the problems in Iraq, and it's arguable how much his capture would help improve the security situation there. But it is undeniable that his continued elusiveness would have been a hinderance towards the possibility of creating a safer Iraq.

You may argue that his capture doesn't make Iraq safer, but you cannot argue that his remaining at large makes Iraq safer.

His capture is a good and necessary component to making Iraq work.

[drfemoe]

20. I'll feel better

is someone I know gets new military orders.

I'll feel safer when we have a president named Dean.

[knight_of_the_star]

21. Nope

I'm willing to bet that some of the resistance fighters are going to pull something big and bold pretty soon. And how he was captued still doesn't feel right.