Sunday, June 13, 2004
Have They Even Managed to Fuck This Up?
According to a Red Cross spokesperson, the US must charge Saddam Hussein with something by June 30th, or release him, since we'll no longer be officially occupying Iraq, and ol' SH is classified as a prisoner of war.
Which begs the question: why haven't we charged him with anything yet? Could it be that charging him with torture would be highly hypocritical, and that charging him with anything else would reveal that he got his weapons back in the 80s from Donald Rumsfeld and Ronald Reagan?
So there's another fine and dandy conundrum this Administration has fallen into because they never plan anything ahead of time. No exit strategy for Iraq, and now they have two weeks and three days to press charges on Saddam. Don't get me wrong -- I think he should be tried, in a public court, with a defense team, and it would take a pretty crappy prosecutor to not get him convicted on charges that would put him away for life. However, the irony of BushCo fumbling this one, resulting in Saddam winding up back on the streets as it were, would be perfectly emblematic of everything this Administration has done wrong since day one. Hell, since before day one.
Which begs the question: why haven't we charged him with anything yet? Could it be that charging him with torture would be highly hypocritical, and that charging him with anything else would reveal that he got his weapons back in the 80s from Donald Rumsfeld and Ronald Reagan?
So there's another fine and dandy conundrum this Administration has fallen into because they never plan anything ahead of time. No exit strategy for Iraq, and now they have two weeks and three days to press charges on Saddam. Don't get me wrong -- I think he should be tried, in a public court, with a defense team, and it would take a pretty crappy prosecutor to not get him convicted on charges that would put him away for life. However, the irony of BushCo fumbling this one, resulting in Saddam winding up back on the streets as it were, would be perfectly emblematic of everything this Administration has done wrong since day one. Hell, since before day one.
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