Saddam Be Gone: Guaranteed

Saddam Be gone: Guaranteed!

by Thomas McCullock

Well, unless you've been living in a cave (or perhaps a "spider hole" in the ground near Tikrit) you know the news. Saddam has been captured, and DNA tests prove it's him. editorial cartoon by MoPaul

I've been talking to other like minded people, and we all seem to have come to the same conclusion. This is just a diversion, a smokescreen. They've probably known for some time where Saddam (and likely Osama, too) were at, but were keeping this "ace card" for later play, closer to the election.

But the news the last few days has been getting harder for the White House to dodge. News about Halliburton overcharging $60 million for gas, which even Bush has had to say probably happened, and they must pay back. Then the news that they had overcharged even more on "catering" contracts. Halliburton provides all the mess services for the military there. Boom, next day, news comes out that Halliburton's mess tents are filthy, and unacceptable by any standards. They overcharge, then screw us blind. Uh, oh. Next comes the revelation that James Baker III, who was sent to convince France, Germany and Canada to forgive billion$ of Iraq's debts, so the money can instead go to Halliburton - turns out Mr. Baker is Halliburton's top attorney. He's been appointed by and for Halliburton, not the US.

This was all blowing up way to big for the White House, they decided to use their trump card to shut it all down. The press has such a short attention span, they will never get back to any of that. Gone. Forgotton. Buried in the Rose Garden.

What's more, the cable news media is fawning over Bush as though he were the messiah. By morning they may proclaim him to be god.

The crap they are presenting as "fact", quotes like "No doubt, this will deter other terrorists, let them know they cannot escape justice."

Um, 'scuse me, but "other"? Saddam was a dictator, not a terrorist. Yet the media continues to force feed the myth that Saddam was behind 9/11.

Bush's poll numbers will skyrocket, for a while. But reality will be quick on it's tail. Already, 12 hours after Saddam's capture, 17 Iraqi policemen were killed by a suicide bomber. Then a car bomb in downton Baghdad made for a spectacle on CNN, flames out of control right by the Palestine Hotel. At the very unfortunate time when much of the country was watching.

Truth is, Saddam - as powerful as he was as a dictator, had already been reduced to just an old guy hiding in a hole in the dirt trying to stay alive. He wasn't directing the attacks. The attacks aren't by "terrorists", they are by Iraqis defending their country against a foreign military occupation. Under the Geneva Convention they have a right to do that. It is we, the United States of America, who are the criminals here, not them. Saddam's capture will only increase the attacks, because now the US will no longer be able to blame it on Saddam. The problem with eliminating a scapegoat, is you can't use him anymore.

You also can't let him talk. There will never be any trial where Saddam can openly and freely talk about how he got his WMD stocks from The Mighty Immortalized Reagan, Bush Daddy, and Heir Rumsfeld. No doubt some "Jack Ruby Solution" was planned before his capture. Shot trying to escape, perhaps? A chemically induced "heart attack"? Mark Lewis suggested they (the White House/Pentagon) might stage a fake "terrorist attack" to kill Saddam, and take out a slew of 'merican soldiers at the same time. They could get a lot of political currency out of that one.

Keep your eyes open. Don't believe a damn thing this White House says.

Tom Flannery has written a song for the occasion: "Saddam's Dead" Thomas McCullock is an activist with the Springs Action Alliance http://csaction.org and is the editor of ThomasMc.com http://ThomasMc.com