What are the chances that Bush's boys brainwash Saddam?

Look, Saddam was a bad guy, we all got that. Also none of us here are ridiculous enough not to understand that he was more evil guy using the weapons our Republican leaders gave him when they were all friendly with him.

That being said, right now there's a certain joke of a Republican President in office who is seeing this war hurt his re-election chances greatly.

Now with Saddam in custody and under intense US forces interrogation, does anybody else think Bush has his people forcefeeding answers into Saddam so that Bush can use his words to save his own skin at home?

Rp

Is anyone else as sick and tired of those 10 Iraqis celebrating with the trumpet and drum clip being replayed a million times over? It's so scripted and worse it's so sad that they have maybe 3 minutes of total footage that they have to continually loop.

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That will be a hoot.

Maybe he will reveal where OBL is. <yeah, right>

I've already heard Nancy Soderberg say that on MSNBC... what does this fricken administration need to hit them with to realize they're not in cahoots together?

God they're stupid.

Rp

 
Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
By Con Coughlin
(Filed: 14/12/2003)

Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.

Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day "work programme" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's base in Baghdad.

In the memo, Habbush reports that Atta "displayed extraordinary effort" and demonstrated his ability to lead the team that would be "responsible for attacking the targets that we have agreed to destroy".

The second part of the memo, which is headed "Niger Shipment", contains a report about an unspecified shipment - believed to be uranium - that it says has been transported to Iraq via Libya and Syria.

Although Iraqi officials refused to disclose how and where they had obtained the document, Dr Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling seven-man Presidential Committee, said the document was genuine.

"We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaeda," he said. "But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."

Although Atta is believed to have been resident in Florida in the summer of 2001, he is known to have used more than a dozen aliases, and intelligence experts believe he could easily have slipped out of the US to visit Iraq.

Abu Nidal, who was responsible for the failed assassination of the Israeli ambassador to London in 1982, was based in Baghdad for more than two decades.

More (requires registration): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/14/wterr14.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/14/ixnewstop.html

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The magical appearance of Atta in Baghdad, in the summer of 2001, when he's been exhaustively investigated by the USA, and they've never made the claim? Not even 'his whereabouts were unknown at times'?

And then, in the same memo, something about a shipment from Niger - which, even if either story were true, would have had absolutely nothing to do with Atta?

Note the reporter's name - 'Con' Coughlin.

I don't think so. Of course this is all speculation, but for Saddam, the jig is up. I suspect we'll get nothing from Saddam but what he wants the world to know. He has no motivation to become a puppet for the Bush propagandists.

Maybe they'll tell him to say that he shot Kennedey, put sugar in the fuel tank on the Challenger and threw rocks at the Columbia. Maybe he can say that it was his splooge on Monica's dress and that he beat Rodney King. Oh and he was the one to spread AIDS to that monkey in Africa.

And the Roswell crash was actually a Scud missle with 3 monkeys and a platypus.

I have to say that they would never have him take credit for the Monica splloge... after all why hurt Repubs ability to blame every problem in the World on Mr. Clinton, who is BTW the Antichrist. :)

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and whatever else they want him to say.

But all that aside, I'm glad the capture took place now, not during the early primaries, when it would have stolen the thunder of the Democrats. And this gives the Bush Administration more time to really screw up their administration of Iraq without the excuse that Saddam was out there masterminding everything that has caused things to go wrong over there. It also means we can concentrate on the erosion of civil liberties at home and hammer home at the way the Rethugs have worked in Congress in secret, sweetheart deals, etc. etc.

Thank heavens the American public has a short attention span. For once this works in our favor. They will have forgotten Saddam by the time the election rolls around.