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Thu Jul-27-06 11:41 AM
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| October Surprise? Saddam trial adjourned until October 15th. |
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Edited on Thu Jul-27-06 11:42 AM by tgnyc
No more testimony to hear, so look for the guilty verdict and news media interviews with happy family members of Saddam's victims to flood coverage of the Iraq fiasco in the final days before the elections. http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/07/27/ap2909318.html |
| LSK
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Thu Jul-27-06 11:42 AM
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| 1. doubtful - hardly anyone is paying attention to it. |
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Thu Jul-27-06 11:43 AM
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| 2. Oh, the Today Show etal will be playing it up come October. n/t |
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Thu Jul-27-06 11:43 AM
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| 3. The Iraqis are not following *'s playbook anymore |
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It might turn out to be an October surprise for *.
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| titoresque
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Thu Jul-27-06 11:45 AM
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| 4. nope that is so pre-04 election |
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it doesn't have enough umpff. It doesn't have enough dictatorshipy feel to it.
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Thu Jul-27-06 11:48 AM
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| 5. Close, but it will get worse |
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The "October Surprise" will be that Saddam gets broken out of jail and is on the loose again.
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Thu Jul-27-06 12:13 PM
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| 6. All the worse for Bush |
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It'll point out that we've caught Saddam and had our show trial and Iraq is in worse shape than ever! I'm a little confused. I don't doubt for a minute that Saddam did everything he's accused of; use of chemical weapons on the Kurds, revenge killings, torture, etc. My question is whether he was strictly speaking within the law of the land when he did those things. I don't see how the administration responsible for Guantanamo can point a finger at Saddam!
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Thu Jul-27-06 01:26 PM
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| 7. It will look worse for Bush after the election, |
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after it has had time to sink in that it made no diference. But for a week leading up to the election, it will all "The Verdict: Guilty" and "Justice In Iraq" on the cable news nets all day.
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Thu Jul-27-06 01:29 PM
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| 8. Does anyone doubt his conviction? The only way this would effect Nov |
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is if he is (by some miracle) acquitted.
I'm much more worried about our long forgotten friend, OBL. If there ever were a time to announce he'd been killed (true or not) it would be about 5 days before the election.
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Thu Jul-27-06 01:31 PM
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| 9. I don't think a Saddam guilty verdict would be much of a surprise |
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Edited on Thu Jul-27-06 01:31 PM by WI_DEM
to anybody. If he were found innocent--now that would be a shock.
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