Chemical Ali? Didn't we get him already???

[vi5]

Honestly they trumpet every single minor character.....every single person who may have once drank from the same water fountain as Saddam...as the biggest capture yet and march around patting themselves on the back. Plus, given their penchant in the past for saying they had someone when they didn't, who the hell can keep up anymore.

"No really...trust us THIS is the big one. All those other guys we told you were the big ones? Forget 'em. THIS is the one.

[virtualobserver]

1. this is the first time that we have captured him....

we killed him the other three times.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. LOL You made me spit coffee!

*

[TioDiego]

3. Good one, VO.

That one got me rolling. :hi:

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Chemical Ali Is One Tough Mother Huncher!

More lives than Charles Bronson, Ronald Raygun, Moses Heston, Are-Null and Jon Wayne put together! They should ask him how much shit Bush and Reagan gave him in the 80s to use on his own people!

When will they catch the guy from Union Carbide who killed the thousands of people in Bophal India with toxic chemicals because the poor old company wanted to cut corners? When will they go after the people who voided the clean air and clean water acts and started gassing you and me again?

Maybe Chemical Ali can replace Are-Null in those action flicks once Are-Null becomes Resident!

[mrbill]

4. wasn't the last captured chemical ali a woman?

maybe there is more than one chemical ali.

should have bought a deck of those cards and some pushpins to keep score.

[chiburb]

8. The picture in the paper

Showed THIS one as a 10 of diamonds. I'da thunk he'd be higher from his name...

[HootieMcBoob]

12. this is weird

I remember thinking a couple months ago after they said they caught chemical ali that they had already caught chemical ali. Somebody posted something saying didn't they already catch chemical ali? And it turned out that they had captured the female chemical person previously and that this time they had the male chemical ali! What the hell is going on here? I know they've caught this guy at least once before already. Maybe they just keep letting him loose and re-catching him?

[wndycty]

5. I would not be surprised if. . .

. . .we catch Uday and Qusay after Labor Day.

[asjr]

7. Ali

I wonder what other card they have up their sleeves to bring out at an appropriate time.

[imax2268]

9. Well...

you know how it is...all those Ali's look alike...!

[Creamed Corn]

10. Gaslighting

I think he's already been killed once and captured once. Honestly, I have no idea. Doesn't matter though, it's understood by everyone that villainous moustache-twisting henchmen like "Chemical Ali" are cartoons subject to cartoon logic.

[MrBenchley]

11. Rumsfeld told the Newsmax morons

that Chemical Ali was dead back in APRIL...

""We believe that the reign of terror of 'Chemical Ali' has come to an end. To Iraqis who have suffered at his hand, particularly in the last few weeks in that southern part of the country, he will never again terrorize you or your families," Rumsfeld said. "

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/7/204930.shtml

[arcane1]

13. remember when Bush said that Saddam and his sons...

could step down and avert war???

Now, every pencil-pusher in the former Iraqi government is a target! If Saddam and his sons had stepped down, would we have let this evil chemical genious go?

:shrug:

[Kamika]

14. No, that was comical ali

Since the bush administration has named every single arab "ali" we might get abit confused.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Remember The Ali-Moe!

How many Alis does it take to screw up a pipeline?

[MisterP]

16. Boudelang: "We got AlChemicleAli so the disasters in Baghdad and Jerusalem

don't matter so there!"
--incoherent kick--

[JaneQPublic]

17. Well, yeah, according to...

ABCNews, March 21, 2003:

ABCNEWS' Brian Ross reported that the three critical Iraqi officials — Taha Yasin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, and Ali Hassan Majid, known as Chemical Ali — are believed to have died in Wednesday night's "decapitation attack," the opening salvo of the war.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Primetime/iraq_main030321.html

CNN, April 7, 2003:

The notorious Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali" -- Saddam Hussein's cousin who allegedly ordered a deadly chemical weapons attack against Kurds in 1988 -- was killed in a coalition airstrike on his home over the weekend, U.S.-led coalition officials said Monday. (snip)

"We believe that the reign of terror of Chemical Ali has come to an end," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters.
http://us.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/07/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/

CBS News, April 7, 2003:

Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of the most brutal members of President Saddam Hussein's inner circle, was apparently killed by an airstrike on his house in Basra, British officials said Monday.

"He has a very brutal reputation there, and his demise is a great propaganda victory for the British forces who have now been seen with complete liberation of Basra," author Con Coughlin told The Early Show.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:d1q0Dtc9Q_8J:www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/07/iraq/main548099.shtml+Chemical+Ali+killed+april&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[grasswire]

18. argh!!!!

How can the press allow them to continue to play the same re-run??

(stupid, rhetorical question)

[redeye]

19. No, but he had been confirmed dead

It's like that plane the US bombed in April, I think... the air force bombed a plane lying across a runway (i.e. it needs to turn 90 degrees before it can drive on it) and showed the whole world its success, but that plane was a fake target made of cardboard.