Dan Scanlan wrote:
It appears that two events are headed for collision.
The execution of Saddam Hussein will coincide almost exactly with the
moment the US troop deaths in Iraq reach the 3,000 mark (2,996 as I
write).
A third truth is hidden behind the collision: chaos in the Middle
East is a positive to the manipulators.
Smirk is the smile of the callous.
Dan Scanlan
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Hmmm perhaps Saddam went first and avoided the crunch:
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers
1 minute ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some Arab media, including state-run Iraqiya television,
Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurra, reported about an
hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had
been executed.
There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.
A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam's execution, rejecting a
last-minute court challenge.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said U.S. courts do not have
jurisdiction to interfere in another country's judicial process. The ruling
can be appealed, but it was issued within an hour of the time Iraqi
officials said they expected the execution to be carried out.
Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite
Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982.
Also to be hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed
al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser
said.
And just for the record...
What Saddam Hussein WASN'T charged with:
http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html
No charges related to 60s and 70s because directly on CIA payroll.
No charges related to launching and conducting Iraq-Iran War because
encouraged and financed to do so by US who gave him assets they do not
even give Israelis and just what Bush has done in Iraq and for what several
were hanged for at Nuremberg;
No charges related to thousands tortured and murdered in jails because
manywere alleged "communists" from lists turned over by CIA
No charges related to invasion of Kuwait because given a "green light" to
do so by April Glaspie and James Baker;
No charges related to gassing of Kurds in 1988 because trade and special
aid resumed by HW Bush right after it;
No charges related to putting down Shia and Kurd uprisings in 1991 and
1992 because encouraged by US and then those uprising left to die;
etc. Carefully crafted charged to avoid exposing Saddam as "America's
Bitch" and summary and quick execution is for the same purpose.
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