OWL, the BBC report said that all three were executed, but nothing that comes out of Iraq can be trusted to be accurate. As I just posted the choice of the execution date, on the sabbath and a major holiday was odd in the extreme.
]]>This execution has cut off the exposition of the use of WMDs which would have been extremely revealing of the policies of the US regarding Saddam’s regime during the 1980s. A number of people want to bury the facts about the source of Iraq’s WMD programs and the personal knowledge of people like Cheney, Rumsfeld and George HW Bush.
There was no point in what was done. As Riverbend says, at every step the wrong path was followed. This war was designed to fail from the beginning, and the people who supported it are still being listened to, while the people who have been consistently correct are ignored.
]]>Now that Bush has (let’s be honest) killed Saddam, avenged his Poppy, proved whose is longer… what will Bush do for an encore?
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