CONSTANT News 2 days before election? Hussein guilty-sentenced to hanging

[snowbear]

Now if the timing of this isn't suspicious.. I don't know what is..

Verdict due in Hussein trial Nov. 5
Associated Press

Baghdad — A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced Nov. 5, a senior court official said on Monday.

Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, chief investigating judge Raid Juhi told The Associated Press.

etc.. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061016.whussein1016/BNStory/International/home

Rove is probably hoping this story consumes the airwaves for the last 48 hours up to the election..

[aquart]

1. Damn. Then we can't ask him to take back Iraq.

Do you really think anyone is going to care what happens to that defeated old man?

[snowbear]

2. Depends on how the media ((((SPINS)))) it I guess...

And it pisses me off that the U.S. can manipulate the outcome of the verdict for an election in the U.S...

[Taoschick]

5. So, you're assuming

This is just some trumped up trial of an innocent man admired by all? WCan't you give the Iraqis any credit for perhaps trying to handle their own problem? Are they all mindless puppets controlled by the USA?

The only people who are going to give a shit about this are those who supported the invasion of Iraq. That, by the way, doesn't include the vast majority of the voting public so I can't see this having any impact whatever on the elections.

[sharp_stick]

7. Do you believe the Iraqis are trying him?

This is a show trial sure as shit, he's not an innocent man but he isn't getting a real trial either. The US Government is pulling every string in that puppet Iraqi Government, they always have and they will do it as long as they can. They know the second they take their thumbs off, the hellhole we created will turn into a theocratic nightmare overnight.

If the Bush administration thought they could pull it off they'd convict Hussein on the 5th, sentence him to hang and then have a prime time special ending with the glorious event itself in HD with great Dolby surround sound effects of the rope snapping on the 6th. We would then be blessed with a speech from glorious leader himself yammering about "freedom being on the march", "turning yet another freaking corner" and "light at the end of the tunnel" just before the polls opened here.

[snowbear]

10. Thank you simskl.. that's what I was thinking..

Others on DU are discussing this in the breaking news section and also found the timing suspect.

They must be busting their asses to have the verdict announced on the 5th.

I hope the others are right though and Americans will see through the timing scheme..

[HereSince1628]

3. So 5 years later, we've seen a person not guilty of 9-11 convicted

while Osama goes free. I just don't think that's going to help the R's much. We knew the minute we caught him we'd make sure he got strung up.

[kurth]

4. Saddam is one dude who can say "Après moi, le deluge"

actually, it's already happening.

[yellowcanine]

6. If anything, this will just remind people ot the clusterfuck that Iraq is.

I dooubt that the Rove man is happy about this.

[onenote]

8. agreed

if they thought it was good for them and they wanted to manipulate the story, I doubt it would be coming out on a Sunday night.

[Jacobin]

9. Yep. Not gonna help the neo-cons at all

[EC]

11. So, what happens if the Iraqi's

explode and the country just goes more bonkers? I know we probley won't hear about it or see it, unless they have crews there figuring there will be lots of celebrating on the streets, what if that backfires like candy and flowers did, and it just makes things worse?

[Joe for Clark]

12. This could be very bad.

Not in a good way for B*sh - and bad for our kids over there.

When Clark (the lawyer) said all hell could break lose when/if Saddam is found guilty - I am sure that is true - and equally it will be true if hes found not guilty - this is a srewed either way situation.

For a fact, nothing good comes out of this for us.

I don't know just how clear this is coming out of the media - but I am quite sensitive to it - what is going on over there is NOT just a sunni-shia fight. It is becoming more an arab-kurd fight in the north. And the north was supposedly "calm" - (it never was, by the way).

Watch what is happening in Mosul and Kirkuk - not a religious clash there.

This is like lighting a fuse under an "ammo base" -excuse the pun.

Joe

[enigma000]

13. Saddam has a chance to appeal the verdict

and knowing the speed this trial is taking place, that appeal won't happen until the next year.

[badgerpup]

14. Hmmm...THAT could be the (late, I grant you) 'October Surprise'

Something on the order of
"Wow! Looky! We just hung SADDAM HUSSEIN (who had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with 9/11, but you're all so stupid and have such short attention spans you won't remember that), the bad, evil DICTATOR of IRAQ! BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!
Freedom is on the march! So vote Republican, or else it will march over YOU!

[onenote]

16. except he won't be hung before the election -- he'll file an appeal

This is not going to be big news, unless of course it sets off major uprisings in parts of Iraq, which will only drive home how stupid it was for us to go there.

[Joe for Clark]

17. It won't matter.

If convicted it will cause a violent reaction from sunni groups. And if found not guilty a violent reaction from the kurd and shia groups.

You are right, that will be the only news - who reacts more violently against our kids.

Joe

[AtomicKitten]

15. Hmmmmm. What happened to Osama?

Oh, that's right. We stopped looking for him.