Just as Bush's "town hall" meetings are packed with sympathetic audiences, and just as the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein was staged using Ahmad Chalabi's guys, and just as the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch was staged for television, it looks like the capture of Saddam Hussein himself was staged as well:
A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
"I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou Rabeh said.
"We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed," he said.
He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to surrender. ... There is no point in resisting."
"Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said.
Note to those of you who want to discount what this guy says on the grounds that he's of Lebanese descent: Are you impugning the honor of our troops?
And they accused BILL CLINTON of "wagging the dog." Sheesh.
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