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2007-10-29 Iraq

Chemical Ali still not swinging - here's why

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 Heh, heh. Pretty good trick getting him to turn himself in like that. "Oh, no, WE won't arrest you. We'll just turn you over to these guys over here..." A legal nicety worthy of an apparatchik.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-29 01:12|| 2007-10-29 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe some of that Saddamite cash has been trucked back into Iraq from wherever it's been hiding since 2003.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-10-29 03:03|| 2007-10-29 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 It appears to me that Gen. Petraeus may have over-stepped his authority with the offer to Hashem in the letter and now the only honorable thing is to deliver on the promise as best he can. Taking Hashem out of the country is a big problem, so perhaps all Petraeus can do now is appeal to the Iraqis and let them sort it out. If I were Petraeus I'd feel a bit dirty if they ultimately execute Hashem.

Posted by Darrell 2007-10-29 10:27|| 2007-10-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Better be because he's singing like the proverbial canary.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-10-29 10:36|| 2007-10-29 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Or waiting for a suitable pay-per-view deal up in Erbil.

Posted by eLarson 2007-10-29 12:13|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-10-29 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 It appears to me that Gen. Petraeus may have over-stepped his authority with the offer to Hashem in the letter

Read the wording again. It was very carefully chosen ....

Posted by lotp 2007-10-29 12:32|| 2007-10-29 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Better be because he's singing like the proverbial canary.

Dittos mojo.. Ima STILL hopeful one of these Saddam wankers will point us to sum WMD that wasn't spirited out to Syria or elsewhere.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-10-29 13:55|| 2007-10-29 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 BTW ... where's Izzy?

Posted by doc 2007-10-29 14:37|| 2007-10-29 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 right here

Posted by Beavis 2007-10-29 14:45|| 2007-10-29 14:45|| Front Page Top

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