Trial of Saddam Hussein & The Rule of Law

#14 by soysauce

Yes! yours are all plausible scenarios but what you are missing is that now the President is red-faced and in the other situation (plant) the security agencies would have to answer for what they did.
Just look at this scenario: If they had faked the discovery of the WMDs, for most part they hide the trail as best as they could and use the media to make a huge splash. The Prez looks good the Repubs look good and in mostly likely situation a majority of public would have bought it any way. (Remember there are still people out there that don’t believe that Bushman lied!)

Now after two years of investigations somebody does find out that it was all a hoax or the skeptics keep harping that it is all made up but it would have been all too easy to dismiss that skepticism as “conspiracy theory” or just Leftwing shill.

So, there has to be more than what meets the eye in NOT finding the WMDs in Iraq and that’s not been answered by anybody yet.

[It will remain a matter of speculation why the US led Coalition decided to ‘capture’ Saddam Hussein last December and not kill him or had him assassinated as they had tried earlier many times. After all his sons Uday and Qusay could have been captured by waiting out but were killed in north Iraq city of Mosul after a 6 hour fierce battle.]

For the simple reason that the already outraged Arab world would never forgive the US (not that it has condoned the US actions now) for killing someone who resolutely stood up to them. The Arab/Muslim world has always worshipped men who haven`t buckled under threat, however cruel they be to their own countrymen. The backlash would have been simply too much for the US to take. Another reason could be that capturing Saddam alive would lift the sagging morale of the US troops in Iraq and shut the voices of the anti-war activists back home. Most of all, in an election year Bush needed to show something for all the troubles he put the nation to, or his then plunging popularity ratings would have taken a further nosedive.

nikki...
...hey i am in the chota apple...toronto...meanwhile why dont you come over to ``unplugged``...it`s more fun and needs characters like you to brighten up the place and fire up the imagination of your hated poonzabis and bhayya log...;)

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A thorough article. Too bad Mr. Singh does not interact.
I think that the neocons have already achieved their purpose. They have irreparably weakened a strong arab country, which was the beacon of progressive arab nationalism.

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Bremer`s chotaa Kangaroo Court....for baraa criminal Sadaam -- whereas -- the BaRaa ICC for Chotaa criminal Bush...

not fair....discrimination...discrimination....discrimination....

nb #15,
Always welcome to udaipur.
I`m sure u`ll enjoy the place.
Sorry for the digression Gajendra.

Adios