Saddam verdict expected in October

[ECH1969]

Lawyers gave their closing arguments Thursday for the last two defendants in Saddam Hussein's trial, and the chief judge adjourned the proceedings until mid-October when the ex-president and two top lieutenants could be sentenced to death.

The final two defendants to appear in court for closing arguments were former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan and Awad al-Bandar, who presided over the revolutionary court that sentenced Shiites in Dujail to death or imprisonment in the crackdown.

http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=124234

[stepnw1f]

1. hm... right before election

will it help?

[yellerpup]

2. October?

I don't find that suspicious at all. :sarcasm:

[datadiva]

3. Mind Reader ! n/t

[mom cat]

6. My crystal ball said the same thing.

[unda cova brutha]

7. things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm

[Doctor_J]

4. So the MSM can talk about that for a few weeks before the elections

instead of Iraq, Iran, Israel, unemployment, the deficit, the climate, and the rampant corruption in the WH.

Just another milestone on Rove's calendar.

[Robbien]

5. Is anyone really paying much attention to this?

With everyone in Iraq using all their energy just to stay alive and the world's warmongers all keeping their eyes glued to the "shock and awe" playing out in Lebanon, I would expect the interest level reading on the Saddam trial is near zero.

[peace frog]

9. Beat me to it

but I agree, the interest level will be nil.

[gratuitous]

10. Oh you WILL pay attention

Because when that verdict is handed down on October 16 or 17 (you heard it here first), you must be cheering the great triumph by George W. Bush over the hated dictator, Saddam Hussein. Don't you know that Saddam and Satan have a homosexual relationship? He's evil, I tell you! E-e-e-e-evil!

Besides, with wall-to-wall coverage blasting out of every media pore, it will be impossible for Americans to escape the verdict. And the soft-minded folks will be persuaded that it was all thanks to the steadfast vigilance and vigilant steadfastness* of the stalwarts of the Republican party and all its candidates.



*Note from Propaganda Dept.: Too "egghead"; come up with better sound bite explanation -- you have a couple of months.

[peace frog]

13. Beg to differ

The wall-to-wall coverage will happen, certainly, but will barely raise a collective yawn out of the general populace.
I predict zero bounce for the repugs.

[gratuitous]

14. I hope you're right

But if the past is any indication, the GOP will certainly try it again, and companies don't spend billions on advertising because it doesn't work. I hope they've reached the limit on their trips to the well.

[maxrandb]

17. I'd be surprised if they didn't

televise his execution the night before the elections, and make it available for Pay Per View.

Maybe the Pretzledent himself could pull the lever

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. But you don't publish the papers, or have editorial control of the

television media. THEY will plaster the country with the 'verdict' and not talk about anything else.

SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, lebanon, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, israel, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, afghanistan, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, gas prices, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM, SADDAM...

[arcane1]

18. interest level = zero; tv coverage = 24/7

"Heil Bush, the man who captured the Butcher of Baghdad!"

[peace frog]

8. Not much of an October "surprise"

IMO most Americans' attitude will be "so hang the creep already and be done with it."

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. You mean they will publicly announce the decision

that they made six months before he was captured?

Was there ever any doubt about the outcome of the 'trial'? Not that I could care less what happens to Saddam, but it is disingenuous to the extreme to call this a trial.

[HuffleClaw]

15. meep. how blatant can they get?

how conveeeenient. pretty obvious though.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Surprise! Surprise!....

Does anyone else doubt that the media will find a way to ratchet up wall-to-wall coverage of the lone dirty Democrat, Jefferson of Louisiana?

[leesa]

19. How conveeeenient. Last day of trial was yesterday and the verdict

won't be announced until October??? 2 months to reach a verdict?

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. And what if Saddam is acquitted/exonerated???

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Now THAT would be news indeed!!

Gotta admit,

I think GeeDub and his minions have killed alot more innocents than Saddam did . . .

But I's jus a Canuk

whadda I know . .

[daleo]

21. Maybe a live telecast, just before the U.S. election?

It would get the wingnuts worked up and in a votin' mood.

[samsingh]

22. imagine - what timing

and an impartial judiciary at that.