Can You Say "Hypocrisy"?

Glenn has the real news angle on Saddam's surrender without a fight. Of course the truth is that none of this is about principle or even "oppression" by the West. It's about a power trip by tyrants who live in a 7th century world. Is Arafat wiring his kids to be suicide bombers? Horsepuckey pure and simple. They live in Paris than you very much...

And he also has a great email from Roger Simon that makes me smile from ear to ear:

I am here in Paris to research a new novel, celebrating the overthrow of Saddam with your one time Paris correspondent Nelson Ascher and journalist/novelist Nidra Poller and we would all like to say that atmosphere here tonight is that Chiraq is shaking in his boots and may be headed for Damascus to seek political asylum.

Those who think this laughable aren't paying attention. I do seem to recall a quote or some intel tidbit where Saddam was reputed to say something about tattling on those who didn't support him enough ;)

We're far from out of the woods yet but now the pall of fear has lifted maybe the intel will get strong enough to actually take on the Al Qaeda in Iraq. But I still think it will take years since I'm sure Osama commands a similar level of fear to to Saddam...

UPDATE: Darren Kaplan points out Strategy Pages prescient take on Task Force 121.