Posted on 06/15/2004 10:14:50 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush yesterday said the United States will not turn over Saddam Hussein to Iraq's interim government without assurances that the former dictator will remain behind bars.
"We want to make sure that he doesn't come back to power," Mr. Bush said during a press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzi in the White House Rose Garden.
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Given Saddam's ties to Al Qaeda and his complicity in the events of 9/11, why isn't he being tried before a U.S. military tribunal rather than being turned over to the Iraqi government?
If we hang Saddam now...we won't have to worry about assurances
I truly hope our people are implanting some sort of covert tracking device in saddam for insurance.
Red Cross loses jurisdiction because he is no longer a POW, he's just another indicted defendant being held for trial by his own government.
Or, we could implant a remotely controlled explosive device in his head and release him to the Iraqis.
Or, we could substitute one of his doubles and switch the DNA files to defeat his "mistaken identity" defense at trial. The double could be executed (while Saddam watches on TV) and the real Saddam could be made to wear panties on his head until he tells us everything we want to know.
Once again, W cuts through all the PC crap and rips the heart out of the issue to lay before the world.
Saddam COULD find his way back into power. I guess none of the PC'rs thought about that till Bush 'splained it.
Bizarre and troubling remark by Bush. If he is really so worried about the lack of private assurances from the interim government, that he felt the need to make this public statement, things are quite rotten in Denmark.
What are we to make of this? I don't like it. Maybe Bush was just making an ill considered remark. I don't like that either, not regarding something of this import.
The ways in which the Saddam situation could go wrong are both numerous and plausible.
It was foolish of us not to have killed him the instant we saw him in the spider hole.
"Capture or kill" is a fatally ambiguous phrase. It has led to all kinds of trouble, since "capture" in these cases will tend, eventually, to mean "release." That's fine for fly fishing, but not in a deadly war. "Bring to justice" is not much better.
The mission should be utterly clear: "Kill."
He probably doesn't want Saddam "escaping" and joining the underground in say.... October?
Bush refusing to give Saddam up to the Iraqis, over the objections of the interim government, would be a total foreign policy dissaster for the US. I suspect it might well sink Bush.
No, this matter is more serious than that. It will be interesting to see if these remarks gain traction in the media. If they do, it will hurt Bush.
Refusing to give Saddam up to the Iraqis would not hurt Bush. If anything, it would help him.
If Saddam escaped, or in any way escaped justice, it would hurt Bush -- and deservedly so.
Sadr doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. Sadr is in this for himself - not a true Jihadi.
Exactly.
Yep.
We should have killed him right off the bat.
Keeping him alive only leads to problems.
Just look at Milosovich(sp). He has played all sorts of games to drag his trial on. He has made the world court look like monkeys humping a football.
"Just look at Milosovich(sp). He has played all sorts of games to drag his trial on. He has made the world court look like monkeys humping a football."
In all honesty, they looked like football-humping monkeys before Slobo and will continue to after him!
The case against Slobo is extremely weak, and recent events in Kosovo demonstrate further that at the very least we should have stayed clear - at the worst, Clinton was on the wrong side.
We can't even trust those that are suppose to be taking control.. Jezzz.....
And that's the question I'm asking. "And when we get the right answer," he added, "then we'll all be satisfied."
This is getting scary.....
Oh man....
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