Too Many Ifs Surround Hussein's Detention (Marie Cuckoo Alert)

NY Newsday ^ | December 16, 2003 | Marie Cocco

[presidio9]

The capture of Saddam Hussein marks a great day - if.

If the former dictator sheds light on the mystery of the missing weapons of mass destruction. If he proves - by leading us to these armaments - that the American president did not deceive his own country about the alleged stockpiles of horrific weapons, taking the United States into a war of choice and an occupation of chilling uncertainty and blood.

If Saddam Hussein instead says little, or confirms what international arms experts have come increasingly to believe - that Iraq's unconventional weapons programs were crippled after the first Gulf War and never regained strength during years of international sanctions and inspections - then what are we to make of this war?

President George W. Bush has an all-purpose answer. He just would not believe anything Hussein says.

"He's a deceiver, he's a liar, he's a torturer, he's a murderer," Bush said at his news conference yesterday. "I would be very skeptical of anything he said, one way or the other."

Heads I win. Tails you lose.

The capture of Saddam Hussein is a great turning point, if it is true that holdouts from his Baath party in Iraq are "largely responsible for the current violence" against U.S. forces and the Iraqis who want to cooperate with them. This is what Bush told us Sunday.

[Question_Assumptions]

Amazing. Simply amazing...

[danneskjold]

If Saddam Hussein instead says little, or confirms what international arms experts have come increasingly to believe - that Iraq's unconventional weapons programs were crippled after the first Gulf War and never regained strength during years of international sanctions and inspections - then what are we to make of this war?

ummm....that the Iraqi people (as well as the rest of the world) are now a whole lot safer and better off?

[presidio9]

I only post her because I am fascinated by how addleminded she either is or pretends to be.

[sarasota]

What she fails to understand it that Bush knows he doesn't want or need Saddam's word on anything. We're already hot on the information trail without him.

[thinktwice]

The maxim "Keep it simple" fits well in describiing the best way to dispose of Saddam Hussein.

The interim Iraqi government has established a justice system akin to that in America's old "Wild west," and what worked then will work now.

Assemble a judge, jury, and two or three credible witnesses to ANY of his heinous crimes; hold a one day trial, and execute Saddam immediately after a guilty decision is reached.

With little buildup and some small amount of imbedded press, the whole thing can be over in a week.

[q_an_a]

maybe there could be a spiting day or two, where all the families of all the victims could come and tell "I am the President of Iraq and wish to negotiate." what they think of him.

[MAGEE]

Ditto on "addlepated". I think she should stick to paint by numbers and slogans on sweatshirts!

Whew, she'd be lost around the writers here.

[C210N]

On the other hand, perhaps we'll find that the WMD's are now somewhere in the Bekaa Valley, and all the delay caused by the left and the UN allowed those WMD's to get there.

[PISANO]

What country does this twit live in? How anyone in their right mind can label GW a LIAR about WMD when EVERYONE, I repeat everyone in the world, MI6, CIA, the UN, X42, every Senator, every Representative, I say again EVERYONE prior to the IRAQI WAR for 11 straight years said SADDAM Hussien possessed WMD. Is this person or any that say GW lied of sound MIND? Frustrating a..h.l.s!!!

[Sabatier]

First she accuses George Bush of being a deceiver, then she criticizes George Bush for saying Saddam is a deceiver.

Another logic-challenged liberal using the number one rhetorical ploy, the false equivalency.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>Heads I win. Tails you lose.

She's not as stupid as she portrays herself in writing. Now that she's got that one worked out, maybe she can go away and write the gardening column. Somewhere that the impact of her colossal skull density wouldn't be nearly as dangerous.

[NYCVirago]

If Saddam Hussein instead says little, or confirms what international arms experts have come increasingly to believe - that Iraq's unconventional weapons programs were crippled after the first Gulf War and never regained strength during years of international sanctions and inspections - then what are we to make of this war?

This is the second time in two days I've seen Iraq's weapons of mass destruction described as being "unconventional weapons programs" (the first time I saw this was in the NY TImes, of course.) I think the reason this euphemism is being used is because liberals love anything "unconventional".

[Sergio]

"...or confirms what international arms experts have come increasingly to believe..."

Meaning that at one time, international arms experts had a different belief than their current one. Could their belief have been that Sadam had a WMD program up and running?

Go Dubya! God Bless our Troops and their CinC.

Best Regards

Sergio

[Virginia-American]

Assemble a judge, jury, and two or three credible witnesses to ANY of his heinous crimes; hold a one day trial, and execute Saddam immediately after a guilty decision is reached.

Why not just deliver him to the Kurds and let them do whatever is traditional in that part of the world? If he survives, next to the Marsh Arabs, etc

[Jim Noble]

The longer Saddam is in US custody, the more trouble our "friends" are going to make for us.

Hang him now.