SADDAM CAPTURED, GREAT JOB BY OUR TROOPS.

Today, December 14, 2003, we're hearing about how we have finally captured Saddam Hussein hiding is a "spider hole" in the ground in a mud hut in Iraq. Looking more like a homeless person from the streets, Saddam, bearded, disheveled and unkempt was taken into custody by soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division. Let me be very clear on this point, WE didn't capture Saddam, our troops did in a lightning fast raid that could have only been put together by the armed forces of the United States.

It was not president George Bush, nor was it the endless stream of politicians from both sides of the aisle that rushed to grab all the TV time they could as the news of Saddam's capture flooded the airwaves. (By the way, I thought that they had all gone home for the holidays. Oh, I forgot, they are home, its just not the home that we thought they should go back to at least once in a while.)

Let me say it again, the people that actually got Saddam Hussein were the men and women of the US Armed Forces. Kids that just a couple of years ago were in high school and that months ago were working in jobs here at home and did "part time army stuff." BABY, TAKE A LOOK AT THEM NOW! Today, they are standing taller than ever and you can bet that unlike what you are reading in the newspapers and hearing on the network news, moral couldn't be higher.

The day will soon come when we will look back on this day and wonder why we thought it was so great. Why on earth would I make such a negative statement? Simple, I know what is coming and it's called the Presidential Campaign of 2004. Just like when I told you that it wouldn't take but a couple of months for us to be told that we really didn't see the war in Iraq the way that we thought we saw it.

Look, today is a great day for our soldiers. They won the Super Bowl of catching tyrannical dictators and we should all stand up and cheer for them. A cheer that is so loud that they will be able to hear it all the way in Iraq and wherever they are around the world, because they "done good." At the same time that we make sure that they hear our cheer, we need to make sure that the politicians also here it and that they don't try to take credit for something that they had nothing to do with. and that goes for both parties.

You know, all of us here at home might learn a lesson from our soldiers in the field and try to be the BEST AMERICANS WE CAN BE. The least we can do for them and our country is to try to be as good at being an American as they are at being soldiers. Why? Because if we did, then this article might have been titled: SADDAM CAUGHT, GREAT JOB BY OUR TROOPS AND OUR CONSTITUTION WAS SAVED, GREAT JOB AMERICANS! Think about it.

HILLARY IS CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP

Hillary Clinton has had a bad hair day for two weeks now. First, President Bush beat her in her media play in Iraq on Thanksgiving. His trip to Iraq totally up-staged Hillary and her big show for the media showing her leadership in going to Iraq where she could claim that she had actually been to Iraq and that President Bush had not been. Of course, her going and spending a few days bouncing in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq hardly would qualify Hillary as the female equivalent of John Wayne but with the Clintons it could have been played up that way.

It really doesn't matter now because on Thanksgiving Day President George Bush beat Hillary and she knows it and there is nothing she could or can do about it.

Second, apparently an audiotape recorded by the FBI has surfaced in which Hillary is telling someone involved in the on going investigation of illegal campaign funding of both Bill and Hillary's campaigns, to burn the evidence. If Hillary actually told someone to burn or destroy evidence and the FBI has a recording of the conversation, Hillary could be in big trouble. Notice I did not say she was finished, with the Clintons ability of making you believe that you didn't really hear what you thought you heard is now Washington "folklore". Remember, the media will help them in ways that they would not help anyone else. In any event she did mess up big time on this one.

Third, the National Examiner, a tabloid newspaper, broke a story on its cover about Hillary's lesbian problem. Now, I know it is just a tabloid story, but do not forget how I had to use Star Magazine to break the Jennifer Flowers story because the main stream press wanted to cover the story up. It is now history! I did get that story all over the world! Now the question for you is.is history repeating itself?

The fourth and almost as big a problem as President Bush beating Hillary in Iraq was Al Gore slamming the Clintons by his surprise endorsement of Howard Dean for the Democratic primary race for President.

Al Gore used this trick to "jam up" the Clintons plan to make it look like Dean could not get the support of long time Democrats. Their plan was to make it look like Dean only had the support from the Internet community. They do not consider those people as true Democrats and he would not be able to get the Democratic Party loyalist to join behind him in a way that could beat President George Bush in the general election. This would leave Hillary as the only person that could lead the Democrats to beat President Bush. Well, Al Gore fixed that!

By his endorsement of Dean, he has shown that true Democrats can get behind Dean and he can beat President Bush if they do. Hillary now has a real problem in that if Dean begins to gain momentum, she will not be needed as the only person the Democrats have that can beat President Bush. Thanks to Al Gore. Pay back is tough, sometimes.

By Hillary playing coy and trying to rig the Democratic Primary race, instead of going on and getting in the race she now is caught in a trap, she actually created. By maintaining that she has no plans to run in 2004, for as long as she has and not at least giving the Democrats some ray of hope that she might, Hillary may well have created a situation in which she may not be needed.

As I told you in earlier Nichols Notes articles, playing the draft game is slick, if you know how to do it. But, you have to be real careful and play it just right or somebody might get some momentum and it would not work. Hillary is not over and they still have tricks to play but she has to be real careful now.

Don't worry, Hillary is still coming and this is her time, if she is good enough to claim it, but we may just be able to cause her to miss her time with destiny and stop the Clintons quest for global power forever.

Hang on folks, as there will be more bad hair days coming for Hillary on a regular basis.

See You Next Week and May God Bless,

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

God in the Old and New Testaments had man prophesying or predicting events to come. This is a declaration of that which cannot be known by natural means. It is the foretelling of the will of God, whether with reference to the past, present or the future.