How bad would it be for Bush if 6 months from now Saddam's son's appear?

[romantico]

It would not surprise me! I have issues w/those photo's they released. IMO, they could be ANYONE but at the same time, Bush seems to be DETERMINED to make a big deal out of this!He just CAN'T screw this up,can he? Is it possible they have been captured & are being held or could a deal have been made & their deaths were to be faked? I don't want to sound like a nut here, but I question EVERYTHING this administration throws my way!

[LuminousX]

1. I'm sure it is the sons

Because if it isn't, the blowback would be horrendous. It would mean that everything Bush says has to be suspect. The world would expose the Bush Administration as being filled with liars.

[CWebster]

9. Well, we already passed that point

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[Maple]

2. How bad would it be

if they showed up today holding the photos?

They had several doubles after all.

Most Iraqis are questioning it too.

Except of course for the ones plotting revenge.

[phillybri]

3. Bush would blame the soldiers that killed "them"

Would that honestly shock anyone?

[OrdinaryTa]

4. Assassination Standards

Condi would blame the CIA. She would say, "We have very high standards regarding the people we assassinate. We don't assassinate just anyone, you know."

[Aries]

5. A somewhat paranoid take is here

however, these are paranoid times...(I'm starting to become a publicist for this blog.)

xymphora

Friday, July 25, 2003

Uday and Qusay:


1. Do you think that Saddam's sons were murdered because their testimony at any trial they would have would reveal even more lies about the Bush Administration's flimsy case for the attack on Iraq?

2. If Bush wasn't in desperate need of a distraction, would the order have been for them to be taken alive?

3. It may be that Uday was trying to negotiate their surrender, which makes even more clear that their deaths were really murders. Any arguments that their deaths were legitimate because they occurred during wartime miss the point that this isn't a traditional war - it is an unprovoked attack and occupation of a sovereign country. Americans have no legitimate excuse for these murders as they have no legitimate excuse to be in Iraq.

4. Since the brothers could have given real information about the location of any weapons of mass destruction, it is obvious that the Bush Administration has given up really looking for these mythological weapons.

5. Since both brothers had doubles, how is it that extremely lousy dark photographs of heavily mutilated corpses is supposed to prove that these are indeed the two brothers? The Americans seem also to be relying on dental records, but how do they know that they don't have the dental records of the doubles? X-rays have a similar problem.

6. They were killed by the same Task Force 20 that killed some 80 people at the Syrian border and into Syria a few weeks ago. Is it possible that Task Force 20 has decided that it simply doesn't take prisoners? The four deaths were all as a result of firing anti-tank missiles!

7. Since they had the house surrounded, and had a massive amount of firepower and no doubt various non-lethal methods of subduing whoever was in the house, there was absolutely no need to kill the brothers. It appears that either Bush ordered them killed for his domestic purposes, or the troops involved were grossly incompetent.

8. If the two brothers have been identified as being dead but are actually alive, it puts them in a greatly improved position both for their personal safety and for their ability to lead the resistance. On the other hand, they may have been living in Belarus all along!

[Maple]

6. It's just been admitted

that the bodies were 'touched up'...an unheard of practice in the ME, that will just lead to further questions.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44930-2003Jul25?language=printer

[soupkitchen]

7. Bush would say, "See, that's why I'm against cloning" n/t

[CafeToad]

8. It would be an 11

on a scale of 1 to 10.

(note the subtle Spinal Tap reference)

[leesa]

10. Well, haven't we gotten them three times now?

The press would give it ten seconds of coverage and the Sheeple wouldn't notice.

[librechik]

11. get over it. they're dead. they were executed so they wouldn't talk.

can't have what they knew about Bush and Rummy and Cheney to get into the hands of the wrong people.

Of course they messed this up too. They're like the gang that couldn't shoo straight. Full of fantastic impossible expensive plans, total incompetence, and many lame excuses.

[Cujo]

12. that wouldn't really be a surprise

Remember how Usama was "dead" for so long, and everybody kept saying "his remains are rotting up in tora bora, trust me". and dubya stopped mentioning him and said he was irrelevant, implying that the guy was dead and ooops Usama turns up again. Same for Chemical Ali, and Saddam himself

[Michael Daniels]

13. If they weren't dead I image we would have gotten a tape by now

Sorry, but I don't see them waiting any length of time to spring a "gotcha" on the world.

If they were alive or had survived the conflict rumours would have been all over Middle East airwaves by now.

[Clete]

14. Oh, I supposed we could bake some crow pie

and make them eat it.

[GumboYaYa]

15. How about how bad would it be for the Iraqi people?

Those two guys are monsters and I for one am not going to shed any tears that they are not a threat anymore. I hope that is the case.