“Bush met Saddam on November 27” (Iran Broadcasting)

[Peace_2_Everyone]

http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=194533

I am sure you will take this story with a grain of salt.
It’s a short article, here is the core of it.

2003/12/16
Islamabad, Dec 16 - A Pakistani newspaper on Tuesday published a report, claiming a meeting had taken place between US President George Bush and former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein on November 27.





ooh boy

[piece sine]

1. you've just tossed a live grenade....

I'm going to kick back and just watch the bonfire for a while....

[JailBush]

2. It's hard to imagine a practical reason for such a meeting.

BUT, it's possible that Bush could arrange such a meeting to gloat or even the score for Daddy. But how would someone in Pakistan know of such a meeting?

[PurityOfEssence]

18. Keep your trap shut, back up a few things and you can live

I also wouldn't be surprised if the abrasions on Hussein's left temple weren't from Junior smacking him while guards immobilized him. Oh, all right, I'm having fun. Still, though, it fits Junior's personality...

[celestia671]

3. If that's true...

then maybe that's the real reason behind his sudden Thanksgiving trip?

[kalian]

4. Well...that's what they're alluding too....

I don't know, would shrub risk his life to conduct a one-on-one with
Saddam? :shrug:
What would be the point? What would be the mission?

[celestia671]

5. Did the article say he was already in custody?

He could've met with him before he was thrown down in his little hole.

I don't know. Like that old Tootsie Pop commerical used to say, "The world may never know!"

[yankeeinlouisiana]

7. He had to deliver

the $750,000 in cash that was found with Saddam. ;-)

[lebkuchen]

15. The top US medical officers could not enter Iraq when Bush was there

Does anybody find that weird? Two days later, 61 of our soldiers were wounded, though that got less than 24 hours of news and was dismissed almost as soon as it had happened, and our top medical officers have no first-hand knowledge of readiness there, which had been their mission in the first place.

You'd think Bush would want to meet with them while they are there at the same time!

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18358&archive=true

The two leaders were unable to visit medical troops in Iraq, however, because President Bush’s visit made it difficult to get clearance, she said.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Maybe it is time to check on the gas station attendant again

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08092003/nation_w/82617.asp

Saddam look-alike gets noticed

By Laurie Goering
Chicago Tribune

AL OUJA, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein, dressed in a greasy blue jumpsuit, spends his afternoons pumping gas at this sleepy village's service station, just south of his hometown of Tikrit.

Or at least that's how it looks to visiting motorists who pull in for a fill-up and quickly do a double take at Muhammad Hussein Daoud, with his unmistakable heavy jowls, bushy mustache and big dark sunglasses.

"All of us around here have one grandfather," an ancestor nine generations back, "so it's inevitable," explains the 64-year-old Saddam look-alike. "My name is similar, and so is my face."

Similar doesn't begin to describe Daoud's resemblance to the missing dictator, a distant cousin who for a time attended the same grade school. Though Daoud was never recruited as one of Saddam's official stand-ins, he could be his double: Same paunch, same bushy salt-and-pepper eyebrows, same lined face and sagging cheeks. All he lacks is a rifle in his raised hand.

more

[shirlden]

8. I don't buy the meeting story, but

one thing keeps sticking in my head. Correct me if I am wrong, but the first report of the "capture' came from Talabani in Iran. Talabani being the leader of the Kurds. Now, just why from Talabani and why was he in Iran? The more I think about it, the more I am wondering if the Kurds have had him for awhile. But, then I think if the Kurds had him they would have had a party ripping Saddam into pieces of fish bait. But then, also, I think that "no way" did Shrub want this man taken alive. Did someone screw up? Did the Kurds plan this to get even with Shrub for selling them out to Turkey and the many other nasties that we have pulled on them? Is Talabani ROTFLHAO?

Tune in tomorrow for another chapter in the capture.

:shrug: :think:

[NNN0LHI]

9. As far as I know the Kurds were allied with Iran against Hussein...

...during the Iran/Iraq war if that helps?

Don

[DieboldMustDie]

11. There are those who think Hussein wasn't in hiding..

but was being held prisoner.   See http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/12/001488.html for details.

[buycitgo]

10. somebody snuck in a camera

hee haw

[Snazzy]

13. Very nice pshop! n/t

[montana_hazeleyes]

17. LOL I love it!

That is really good! I don't know if I can ever trust a photo on the net again,lol

[Snazzy]

12. Related, Rumsfeld there 10 days ago or so

I wonder if he brokered a deal, brought word etc.

I doubt the original story of course, but bet it will get some play with the tin foil turban crowd (<<--- hope that's not offensive to anybody. I am suggesting the portion of the so-called "Arab Street" that seems to like outlandish conspiracies. There is one. There are also conspiracies. I have nothing against turbans, tin foil, or the people who wear either; nor do I fully understand the world of turbans and therefore offer this advance apology and disclaimer. Conspiracy theories challenge the mind's preconceptions and are therefore good. I am not a lawyer, your mileage may vary, read the fine print, do not fold spindle or mutilate, do not taunt your happy fun ball, "make subversive hallucinatory radio," {<--- email me if you get that last one!}, question authority and ... PEACE!).

[JCMach1]

14. Iran broadcasting can be a bit whackjob at times

:(

[maggrwaggr]

16. The guy with the flashlight in Saddam's mouth was Shrub!

Shrub was also checking him for lice.

[wabeewoman]

19. Just posted this in another thread

but check out riverbend blog http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
She is reporting about rumors about Saddam's capture.