Re: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager)

[Thomas Lunde]

Title: Re: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager)

Thomas: Well, I've been looking for a chance to write this short essay, thanks Ed.  Let's use our imagination a little bit.  A few short months ago, this was a cruel, arrogant dictator with an immense amount of money and power and a large group of people who had hooked their lives and careers to him.  So, the Americans attack and Saddam loses.  Where does Saddam go?  Does he humbly take off his uniform and go to his little old home town and set up housekeeping? What happened to his family?  What happened to his loyal entourage.  Oh, they all had a going away party and everyone went there separate ways.  A few months later, his two sons who had enormous control over the military, secret police and citizenery were caught alone in a building with "I think" one bodyguard.  And were killed.  They didn't need to be killed, the Americans had them totally surrounded and isolated.  In a few days they would have surrendered or committed suicide.  Now, we find the Americans had intelligence that led them to search an area for Saddam.  A Saddam who still might have had hundreds of fighters available to him from within the population.  A Saddam who the Americans speculated might be running the resistance!  So the Americans sent in 600 combat troops with support.  They didn't find anything!  Then, they were instructed to widen their search and wonders of wonders they found a spider hole and in the bottom, someone who said, "I am Saddam and I want to negotiate."  Ha, ha, ha.  He didn't even have a cell phone?  Even someone in Hollywood would have a hard time creating this story line.  Well, I could go on and on, but time is precious.  This is Hollywood.  This is not Saddam.  This is beyond belief. ---------- From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager) Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2003, 8:25 AM I wonder how long they kept Saddam in that rathole before they decided to fetch him out.  Great of timing.  Very good timing for the election (Dean will be the real casuality), and good timing for the trial, probably a couple of years from now, in which too much may be revealed.  If I sound like a conspiracy theorist, well perhaps on this one I am.   Ed     ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 6:14 PM Subject: [Futurework] Symmetry (+ the right pick for Iraq reconstruction manager) > ""He is a coward. Just like a rat!" shouted one man. > > "He looks like a beggar!" said another. > > "He is finished!" said a third." > > (--from a NYT on the Web Story) > > > Surely true enough.  But I think it > well matches tail-gunner George's > visit to Baghdad for Thanksgifing > on total blackout except that > he would not have done it id > ther would not have ben any reporters > on board. > > What a shame that we cannot > look to a future in which Captain Ahab > and Moby Dick die in an embrace which > Ahab even if not Moby does not in the > least really understand. > > Speaking of which, now "we" should have some > sense of how safari-hunted "big game" animals feel, > after our "jumbo jets" have to land and\ > take off in fear of being brought down by > big game hunters' stinger missiles.... > > -- > > But, back to the pictures of a bearded Saddam who > I find hard from a dead Che Guevara: > >      All deposed dictators are the same color in the dark. > > After they've been hiding long enough, they > all look alike to me at least). > > (N.b.: I have in the past couple of days > become increasingly convince that Bush blew > it in appointing Bremer the Iraq reconstruction > manager.  He should have selected > Martha Stewart, instead.  she could have done > the job In Style.) > > "Yours in a mised perecipitation storm...." > > \brad mccormick > > -- >    Let your light so shine before men, >                that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > >    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >    Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework