How Saddam may still nail Bush

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By Pepe Escobar

BAKU - The Christmas blockbuster from the Pentagon studios was a dream. This was the new Roman Empire at its peak - better than Ridleys Scott's Gladiator: a real, captive barbarian emperor, paraded on the Circus Maximus of world television. The barbarian was not a valiant warrior - but a bum.

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Saddam can talk about how, why and by whom the Shi'ite intifada was betrayed after the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. He will give American names. He will detail the American deal under which the US was to have helped the Shi'ites. He will prove that those exhumed bodies incriminate the Anglo-American alliance as much as himself.

He will keep talking all the way back to 1989, to the famous meeting on December 20, 1983 in Baghdad with his friend Donald Rumsfeld, now Pentagon chief. The fuzzy photo of Rumsfeld eagerly shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, observed by foreign minister Tarik Aziz - which simply vanished from corporate media - will be one of the stars of the trial. Rumsfeld was sent by then president Ronald Reagan to mend relations between the US and Iraq only one month after Reagan had adopted a secret directive - still partly classified - to help Saddam fight the Islamic revolution in Iran. Saddam will detail how this close cooperation led to Washington selling loads of military equipment and also chemical precursors, insecticides, aluminum tubes, missile components and anthrax to him. Of course he will be condemned for using the lot to gas Iranian soldiers and then civilian Kurds in Halabja, northern Iraq, in 1988. But he will also prove that the selling of these chemical weapons was organized by Rumsfeld.

snip....and much more - a must read
An excellent Article!

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL19Ak01.html

[JailBush]

1. Replace "will" with "could."

Does anyone seriously think George Bush, Inc. is going to let Saddam sing?

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2. It was the title that came with the article - which I thought was terrific

junior may have gotton himself into a bind where he has no control over the situation anymore! I hope I hope I hope -

[pinto]

3. saw this posted elsewhere, a great read and insight out of the usual spin.

[tom_paine]

4. "shot while trying to escape" "went for a walk in the woods and suicided"?

Can the Busheviks even think of Wellstoning Saddam?

Of course they can, the question is, do they have the balls to do it, considering the whole rest of the world, not blinded by the dazzle of Bushevik Goebbels v2.0, will recognize it imediately for what it is.

Time will tell.

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5. Yeah, he'll shoot himself. 6 times.

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