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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:34 AM
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How many times have we captured Chemical Ali?
I swear we already had him in custody. Sort of like Sheik Omar guy in Afghanistan.

Am I just not paying close enough attention?

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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:35 AM
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1. So did I
:shrug:
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:35 AM
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2. Two or three times that I've heard (n/t)
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:37 AM
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3. I see the Brits killed him on April 7th
According to CNN:

DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- 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.

http://us.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/07/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:37 AM
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4. That was the first thing that came to mind
Then I remembered during the "war", or "major combat operations", or whatever, Chemical Ali was reported DEAD. Then he was captured, and now I suppose he's been captured again. Makes the head spin. Next we'll hear that Saddam's sons have been killed.
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:38 AM
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5. I thought we just recaputred his casket or something!
I LOVE that the media is spinning this as some sort of victory. Giminie Christmas! It just seems kinda silly to be able to kill someone and claim victory, and then when morale is low later on capture him.

They thought they killed him 4 months ago, but now they've captured him alive. They're gonna have to float one helluva lot of pictures of him alive holding newspapers and stuff to convince the Iraqis that he's really in custody.

Gah.

david

Kucinich 2004

Arianna YES
Recall No
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:41 AM
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6. ooooh, you're paying attention..that's a no-no in Bush's America
Chemical Ali's body found April 7, 2003:

http://us.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/07/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/

"There's some speculation that he may be alive" June, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld
US Defence Secretary

Much like bin Laden...they don't know. They just say whatever feels good.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:42 AM
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7. Someone has some extra cards up their sleeves!
Every player in the game has a Chemical Ali card in his hand. Aces and eights. Time to overturn the card table and start a saloon brawl! Duck under the bar, Miss Kitty.

Smash! Crack! Blam!
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 12:03 PM
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16. Generic Other funny you should say that ....i remember bush saying
Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 12:05 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
during his campaign "Well ya know the Gop has always had more cards in their deck",...and at the time i thought - isn't that an admission of cheating?...
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:45 AM
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8. They Just Caught The Extra Joker on a golf course in Texas!
He said, "Am I A-doin' Good Er Whut?"
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:52 AM
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12. I especially liked squatter's
new pronunciation of remnant the other day. Take note! It is now pronounced rem-in-nent.
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sangh0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:47 AM
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9. So did we take Basra again
I remember we did that a few times at the beginning of the invasion. Maybe we should do it again. IMO, the troops could use a pick-me-up.
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ameriphile Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:48 AM
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10. I can't help but think...
...that the Iraqi Information Minister is behind this all.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:49 AM
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11. it depends on just how stupid bush thinks we are!
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:54 AM
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13. Maybe that Was Ali Babby they got this time?
The 40 thieves were already working for Bushco!
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:58 AM
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14. Deja Vu Ali
says "I'll be baaack!"
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 12:02 PM
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15. Didn't we actually DNA test the body?
And prove "conclusively" that the corpse was Chemical Ali?
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 12:21 PM
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18. The odds were 1 in 128,675,890,901,007,099 it wasn't Ali's DNA!
It's getting so you can't believe a damned thing you read in the funnypapers!
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 12:04 PM
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17. I thought Saddam
was the one with all the doubles.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 12:50 PM
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19. "Zombie General Captured!!"
Why isn't this the top story in the WORLD right now?

And people wonder why we don't believe anything the Pentagon says.

Is he dead, or isn't he?

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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 04:19 PM
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20. Calypso Ali
It was a Zombie Jamboree
Took place in a Baghdad cemetery
It was a Zombie Jamboree
Took place in a Baghdad cemetery

Zombies from all parts of Iraq
All of them keep coming back
Chemical Ali wouldn’t behave
See how he jumping out of the grave
And they singing

Back to back, belly to belly
I don’t give a damn, I done dead already
Oho back to back, belly to belly
At the Zombie Jamboree

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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 06:42 PM
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21. All together now!
Doctor Germ she sing and shout
Since Chemical Ali is back out

Back to back, belly to belly
I don’t give a damn, I done dead already
Oho back to back, belly to belly
At the Zombie Jamboree
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 06:47 PM
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22. Gee...he died on April 7th according to CNN...
http://us.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/07/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/

I guess Chimpboy better tell CNN to get that story the hell off the web and make it fast. What BS,they pull dead guys out of their ass when they need a boost.

Hell,I can remember when it happened and SNL or someone making fun of the Ali part of it. Damn,guy died twice...


David
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