Saddam won't confess, says Straw

[dolgoruky]

"Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, today said he would be surprised if Saddam Hussein produced any useful information under interrogation."

"His history of mendacity is so intense and so long lasting he would not know the truth if he fell over it," he told reporters.


Well, that's a surprise!. If Saddam does spills the bean, he's a liar.

Can you believe the audacity of these bellends?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1107463,00.html

[T_i_B]

1. "would not know the truth if he fell over it,"

Sounds almost like Tony Blair doesn't it? :eyes:

[Tinoire]

2. Well, their breath-taking audacity is certainly not in question

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=743

Anyone who tells you that this guy was direction the operations obviously can't tell where the truth ends and their lies begin- a common problem among people who get confused between "mine" and "thine".

[jonoboy]

3. oh yes he will !!!

my take : Saddam will 'confess' how he smuggled WMD into Syria for life imprisonment in a cosy cell..Syria next in line !!!

[Bridget Burke]

5. He'll also tell of his close friendship to Osama....

When the alternative is being turned over to angry Iraqis.

The US can get credits for taking the more humane way--surely, those bleeding-heart, anti-death-penalty Europeans will be persuaded to forgive the Iraqi debts. James Baker will fix everything up.

It would be interesting to know how long Saddam's whereabouts were really known. He was obviously going nowhere, but the Bush regime had to get all their ducks in a row. (I sense a bird theme going on here--inedible turkey for AWOL & tame pheasants for Crashcart.)

[Tinoire]

6. That's my fear too.

They're just working off that little list from Sept 12.

Lot's of under-the-rather news being published about Syria to lay the ground-work.

Meanwhile Syria assures the world:

US not an enemy of Syria, says Assad

ATHENS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published here on Sunday he did not consider the United States an enemy despite their sharp differences.

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"We are against the occupation of Iraq, against the actions of American forces in Iraq, against violations of human rights," Assad insisted.

Assad said he was also against many other aspects of American policy in the region, including an attitude biased in favour of Israel.

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Meanwhile, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak doubted that the US government would follow through with a law to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on Syria. "It’s only a law that the American President (Bush) may carry out or not, according to the situation," Mubarak told journalists during a visit to economic projects in 10th of Ramadan City outside Cairo. Also yesterday, the Arab League expressed its "extreme concern" over impending US sanctions on Syria and urged Washington to abandon its alignment with Israel.

On the other hand, a source close to the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel "can only be satisfied" with the US law, which clears the way for economic and diplomatic sanctions against Syria.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2003-daily/15-12-2003/world/w4.htm

[ET Awful]

4. They just want to be able to say "I told you he wouldn't tell the truth"

When he says he had no weapons of mass destruction. Even though he didn't.