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Think of the French Revolution scene in History of the World, Part I.
I can just envision Bush's desk containing a whole ream of execution orders but not one pardon to be found, and a man who looks just like him running around the Rose Garden with a bucket full of urine.
This morning's paper (this is an AP story, don't have the link to it) carried an article about Bush feeling Saddam deserves the death penalty because "he is a torturer, a murderer, they had rape rooms. This is a disgusting tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice."
We could say almost the same things about Bush, except for the rape rooms. Or maybe not; the press is being held out of Guantanamo and shepherded around the two wars for some reason.
They have to try Saddam in secret, or in absentia, and execute him quickly, lest some embarrassing information leaks out. They may not even let him take the witness stand in his own defense. They may just try him in a kangaroo court; no one would be heartbroken to see Saddam taken out back and shot. We, the membership of DU, know about the Rumsfeld-Saddam meeting, but the American public doesn't--and Saddam will talk about it on the stand. We know Halabja was run under the supervision of American advisors; the public does not. We know Bush the Elder gave Saddam permission to invade Kuwait; the public does not.
Or they need to make sure he slips on a bar of soap in the shower and breaks his neck before trial; this is the preferred outcome because it ends all the worry about Saddam getting up on the witness stand and running his mouth.
If Saddam is tried in an open court, Bush is screwed. Don't think he doesn't know this.
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