Marcy Kaptur is an ass. I will certainly help Larry Kaczala defeat her.
posted by Guest at 11:03 A.M. EST on Sat Dec 20, 2003 #
I've heard the one radio clip some more, and Marcy's exact words appear to be: "I think Saddam's capture is, in some ways, irrelevant." Just slightly different from what I thought she said above. It appears WSPD will be posting the interview soon.
Irrelevant, eh? Life should be filled with more of this so-called "irrelevance." Instead, we are left with the type of irrelevance defined by people like Jesse Jackson and the England Royal Family. People who receive far too much media attention for not doing anything worthwhile. For not serving a purpose.
Thanks to Saddam's "irrelevant" capture:
1. "Saddam's capture provided immediate operational intelligence, with the names of financiers, bomb-makers and resistance leaders among his papers. His documents fingered another dozen terror cells in Baghdad. Saddam's arrest saps the morale of even the most hard-core thugs."
2. "Saddam Hussein's capture has led to the arrest of 'more than several hundred' Iraqis, including some leaders of the insurgency, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said."
3. "U.S. troops arrested a former Iraqi intelligence officer suspected of directing anti-American attacks and raided a Baghdad mosque overnight in a separate operation. U.S. soldiers also warned Monday that they'll jail black marketers of gasoline, some of whom are suspected of financing attacks. Some raids have been based on intelligence gleaned from the arrest of the former dictator."
I was impressed with Time Magazine choosing the American soldier as their person of the year. I don't think it would Marcy's first choice.
Marcy's words in the Blade last week. "U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) called the capture a great morale booster but cautioned against considering it the beginning of the end of problems with terrorists. "It doesn’t mean victory in terms of bringing terrorism to its knees," Miss Kaptur said. "The removal of Saddam Hussein does not end the war on terrorism." "
Marcy Kaptur, Miss Queen Grasp of the Obvious. What kind of bonehead, besides Marcy, would think that Saddam's capture means an end to terrorism? I've not heard anyone of value say Saddam's capture was the end of terrorism. Marcy isn't conversing in the same dimension as everyone else. The world is passing her by.
In Marcy's world, I suppose she considers Moammar Gadhafi's plans to dismantle his WMD program irrelevant too. Oh wait, Marcy probably believes Gadhafi's actions are due to diplomacy and UN sactions. To Marcy, it's merely a freak coincidence that Gadhafi started talking in March, the same month coalition forces invaded Iraq.
Here's a bit of Marcy Kaptur goodwill from the other day when Kaptur "greeted" area troops coming home from Iraq. Marcy said, "We love you, we’re proud of you, and we’re proud of your service."
posted by jr at 07:35 P.M. EST on Mon Dec 22, 2003 #
Marcy Kaptur has done alot for northwest Ohio and I hope that the idiots like Denny Schafer and company keep her from getting elected because of her choice of words.
I don't agree with what she said, but what she has done for Toledo far outweighs the stupidity of her comments, the 1370 Clearchannel machine is just at work trying to gain power in Toledo after their defeat in the last general election.
posted by gl2899 at 10:00 A.M. EST on Wed Dec 24, 2003 #
Earlier this year, Marcy got funding to expand Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, which was great in my opinion. And Marcy was honored for her conservation work. Now what else has Marcy done in 2003 for northwest Ohio? You know, her moronic March 1st comments were published by The Toledo Blade. Is the Blade after Marcy? I didn't realize Clear Channel was up for office in the last election. I doubt WSPD has a chance to snatch control of Toledo from the Blade ;)
posted by jr at 01:52 P.M. EST on Wed Dec 24, 2003 #
In today's news...
"US troops continued raids on homes in several towns that led to the arrest of a Sunni sheik said to be close to the most wanted man in Iraq. Troops have rounded up dozens of guerilla suspects in strongholds of anti-US resistance, saying they are capitalising on intelligence gleaned from the December 13 capture of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."
posted by jr at 03:39 P.M. EST on Wed Dec 24, 2003 #
Democrat losers Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt continue to exhibit signs of radical forms of dementia by blaming President Bush for the disgruntled cow in Washington state. (We cannot use the phrase "mad cow", since the word "mad" is too harsh, too insensitive, too durogatory, too policitallly incorrect.) Anyway, using Dicky's and Deany's warped sense of reality, why not sue Bill Clinton for this disgruntled cow? Afterall, the cow was born several years ago under the Slickster's watch. It just goes to show how desperate some Democrats are.
Meanwhile, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is talking.
"Saddam Hussein has given his U.S. captors information on hidden weapons and as much as $40 billion he may have seized while he was Iraq's president."
And Iraqi spiritual leaders are promoting peace.
"Influential spiritual leaders from Saddam Hussein's hometown, a bastion of anti-American sentiment, are joining forces to persuade Iraqis to abandon the violent insurgency, one of the leaders said Monday."
"The effort marks a new, open willingness to cooperate with U.S. forces, a shift in the thinking of at least some key members of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, which lost political dominance with the fall of Saddam and has largely formed the most outspoken and violent opposition to the U.S.-led occupation."
"Sheik Sabah Mahmoud, leader of the Sada tribe, said he and 10 other tribal elders have formed a reconciliation committee in Tikrit to speak to other Iraqi leaders about trying to persuade rebels to put down weapons."
This is obviously a significant step in bringing more peace to Iraq. Not bad for an "irrelevant" military operation.
Last week, the BBC commanded its reporters to no longer refer to Saddam as a "former dictator."
"According to Britain's Sun newspaper, the BBC has sent an e-mail forbidding its correspondents and writers from referring to Saddam Hussein as a "former dictator." Rather, the stoic and obviously PC-crazed institution is requiring the use of "the deposed former president" when writing or speaking about the Tyrant from Tikrit."
posted by jr at 01:11 P.M. EST on Wed Dec 31, 2003 #
Found this CNN story via Command Post
"U.S. forces operating in the so-called Sunni Triangle -- the region of Iraq most loyal to captured former dictator Saddam Hussein -- found a significant weapons cache that included al Qaeda literature and videotapes, the U.S. military said Tuesday."
"In addition to the al Qaeda literature and videos, the troops found nearly 8,000 rounds of ammunition; 160 mortar rounds and six mortar tubes; 43 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 79 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs); and 19 AK-47 assault rifles, as well as dozens of other weapons."
"The military also said a significant amount of C4 and TNT explosives material was found, as was material to make improvised explosive devices -- the crudely made bombs that have killed or maimed dozens of coalition troops. That was just one of several large weapons caches uncovered in Iraq in the last two days."
"The military did not say how it found out about the weapons, but a member of the Iraq Governing Council has said in recent days that Saddam has begun giving interrogators information about weapons arsenals used by insurgents to attack coalition forces."
posted by jr at 04:29 P.M. EST on Wed Dec 31, 2003 #
A news story from Jan 11.
"Attacks against coalition forces in Iraq have dropped 22% in the four weeks since Saddam Hussein's capture, military records show. U.S. military officers say the decline in attacks, after months of growing intensity, is the first proof that Saddam's capture and recent U.S. offensives have dampened, but not eliminated, resistance to the occupation."
posted by jr at 01:28 P.M. EST on Tue Jan 13, 2004 #
The audio from WSPD's interview with Marcy Kaptur on Dec 14, 2003 is available on Bob Frantz's web page at WSPD.com.
From Bob's page of audio clips:
"This one was a beauty. On the Sunday that the capture of Saddam Huessein was announced, Denny Shaffer, Tom Watkins, and I did a special show to cover the event. Congresswoman Kaptur joined us for what I thought would be a celebration of the achievment, as a dangerous enemy of the United States had been taken into custody. Turns out there wasn't much celebrating going on among the Democrats in Congress, as Marcy displayed for us. Someone needed to take her to task:"
Marcy Kaptur: Capture is irrelevent; it doesn't solve 9/11.
Marcy: Saddam actually helped fight terror in Iraq!
Marcy: The capture is irrelevent. (Just in case you didn't believe your ears the first time)
Marcy: More praise for Saddam's battle against terror! And, even stranger, a call for more "force" from an opponent of the war effort!
Callers: This isn't the first time Marcy's gone off the deep end
Follow-up: The fruits of the capture, despite Marcy's protests
Talk about disturbing comments. I cannot believe this person is "representing" Northwest Ohio. I applaud WSPD for making these and other interviews available for our consumption. It's a nice record to review at a future time.
posted by jr at 04:47 P.M. EST on Fri Jan 23, 2004 #
"For Staff Sgt. Isaac Day and many other American soldiers serving here, ridding Iraq of Saddam Hussein made the war worthwhile — regardless of whether anyone ever finds weapons of mass destruction. "I'm glad we got Saddam," said Day, of Tarpon Springs, Fla. "When I grow old I can tell my grandchildren that we liberated this country." That was a sentiment expressed in dozens of interviews with U.S. soldiers stationed near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown and a center of resistance to the U.S. occupation. "Saddam lived in splendor while the rest of his people had to fend for themselves," Maj. Paul Lehto of Kingston, Mass., said over lunch here."
" "My satisfaction came when we were riding through from Kuwait and all these children were shouting 'America is number one'," said Staff Sgt. Temu Gibson from Schenectady, N.Y. Most of the 130,000 American troops stationed in Iraq have access to the Internet and other media and are aware of the growing political storm over the failure to find any weapons. A number of them say Saddam's brutality to his own people justified the war."
posted by jr at 11:21 A.M. EST on Tue Feb 10, 2004 #
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