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2006-09-06 Iraq

Probe into Saddams Kuwait invasion gains momentum

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of those teaching moment thingies showing the semi-free world how that rule of law thingy works. Take as long as you need, Iraq -- you've got the rest of Saddam Hussein's life to do it right.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-06 01:17|| 2006-09-06 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Might be BS, might not. But while talking to a young Marine who had been stationed at one time at the Kuwait embassy told me that the Kuwaitis had started to secretly drill horizontally across the border into Iraq, which help precipitate the invasion. Anybody ever hear this before?

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2006-09-06 01:24|| 2006-09-06 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I have to disagree, TW. As long as he's breathing I worry that he'll escape the noose. IMHO it was a huge mistake to take him alive. The sooner he takes that 'short drop, sudden stop,' the better.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-09-06 01:43|| 2006-09-06 01:43|| Front Page Top

#4 That was Saddam's argument. Mizzou M.
I have never heard a Kuwaiti denial - or acceptence of the charge. Just no answer as it was below them.

So who knows...

Posted by 3dc 2006-09-06 01:43|| 2006-09-06 01:43|| Front Page Top

#5 If they were drilling it would be, 3dc. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-06 01:55|| 2006-09-06 01:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's juz take the top two atrocities are hang him already.

Posted by Captain America 2006-09-06 02:10|| 2006-09-06 02:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Some say our good friends at Halliburton had a drill rig off the coast and they weren't going straight down. Who knows ?

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-06 02:29|| 2006-09-06 02:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Sometimes our work has unintended consequences.

Posted by Halliburton Earthquake Division 2006-09-06 06:12|| 2006-09-06 06:12|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm gonna have to agree with PBMcL. They should have put a bullet in his head the second they dug him out of his hole. Not just because he 'might escape the noose', but because his very existence is one of the reasons the insurgency has gone on this long. His immediate and summary execution would have saved hundreds and maybe thousands of American lives.

Of course, I'd prefer a noose to a bullet, but dead is dead.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 11:01|| 2006-09-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#10 I have to side with trailing wife on the intended impact in and beyond Iraq. With the delusional state of most Arabs here and elsewhere you sometimes wonder whether any teaching is possible, but I think there is evidence that some are absorbing some lessons, even if unconsciously.

Given the timetable, Sammy's availability for a Kuwait trial is dubious. Even if he doesn't get a death sentence for Dujayl, it's hard to imagine any other outcome for Anfal. Kuwait would have to be next up, and the 1991 intefadeh case has more political traction here (of course) than Kuwait.

As for slant-drilling, I doubt it. Recall the brutal Kuwaiti-Iraqi oil meeting in summer '90 was about oil prices - anything else was probably the crudest of pretexts for the Iraqi barbarians.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-09-06 11:11|| 2006-09-06 11:11|| Front Page Top

#11 The court's decision: Death by boredom!

I vote for taking care of this guy the old fashioned way. Little wasted effort and expense, and people can start focusing on the future right away! There are some people who deserve to be killed outright. This guy is one of them. I don't think there is much he will tell us, but we know he did lots of bad stuff. Far beyond the usual bad stuff someone in his position "needs" to do. Be gone and good riddance. Don't forget to peek through the pearly gates on the way by so you'll know what you're not gettin' when you head off to "receive" your eternal reward, Mme Hussein!

Posted by gorb 2006-09-06 17:02|| 2006-09-06 17:02|| Front Page Top

#12 His two sons shot it out and lost with the US Army. Hope he joins them in hell real soon.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-06 17:04|| 2006-09-06 17:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Jezuz. Just shoot the bastard already.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-09-06 17:35|| 2006-09-06 17:35|| Front Page Top

#14 If there's anyone who ever deserved the death by a thousand cuts, it's Saddam.

Posted by Flish Uleregum9913 2006-09-06 21:33|| 2006-09-06 21:33|| Front Page Top

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