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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edscharp who wrote (4068)	12/15/2003 4:13:50 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: As you are widely regarded here as the resident expert on Hollywood-CIA political chicanery I was wondering if you could add your thoughts to this allegation. LOL... "Resident expert"?! Well, I feel honored <g> Okay, I guess that 24 hours after the hoopla, it's time for me to debunk that bombshell --at least, to sort out the hype from the facts... BTW, there was another rumor aired by US networks themselves that the big, steamy turkey Prez Bush paraded around when visiting his troops in Iraq was all plastic.... Any comment? As for the capture of Saddam Hussein proper, no, it isn't a Hollywood hoax --although the TIMING is. Saddam Hussein was likely snatched in the early days of the US assault (that is in April 2003) and secretly kept in custody and interrogated until last Saturday.... Of course, the timing of the announcement of his capture was a masterstroke: just two weeks before Xmas --to boost the US troops's as well as their families' morale, and just after Europe's summit flop on Sat 13th... Apparently, the US couldn't resist the need to rub Ol'Europe's nose in it, could it? If anything, the timing itself betrays the fact that the US had caught Saddam long before Dec 13th --the timing is just too good to be true. Another clue to the exact timeline is what I'd call a psychodynamics glitch, namely, Saddam's 7-month beard. In their hastiness to humiliate Saddam in the eye of public opinion, US authorities picture him as just another "most-wanted-fugitive" --so familiar a figure to US opinion, that is, a hagard, hirsute vagrant desperately running for his life... Obviously, so desperate a fugitive doesn't have time to spruce himself up every morning in his lair! But then we're also told that the former dictator is still "defiant", that he still identifies himself as "the President of Iraq" --get the discrepancy? I mean, Saddam Hussein has been the all-powerful ruler of Iraq for the past 30 years, always manicured, shaven, massaged by a retinue of personal barbers, hairdressers,.... If such a guy ends up looking like an horrid caveman, it can only be because he was forbidden to shave himself for months, if only to break him psychologically.... Now, what does that mean for the future? A coupla things: first the Iraqi resistance (to the US occupation) built up regardless of Saddam... next, the US will likely try to capitalize on the momentum and rally the so-far reluctant EU countries to help manage post-Saddam Iraq. Gus

To: Edscharp who wrote (4068)	12/17/2003 5:52:58 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

YOU BLABBERMOUTH!!! That was supposed to remain between us.... Saddam capture staged, McDermott charges By Bill Sammon THE WASHINGTON TIMES Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, the Democratic congressman who went to Baghdad last year to say that President Bush would lie to the American people in order to justify war, has now accused the president of timing Saddam Hussein's capture for political ends. He told a Seattle radio interviewer Monday that American forces could have captured Saddam "a long time ago if they wanted." Asked by interviewer Dave Ross on KIRO-FM whether the capture was timed to help the president, he replied: "Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing." Pressed by Mr. Ross about whether he meant that the timing of the capture was driven by politics, Mr. McDermott said: "I don't know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him. "It's funny, when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something." [snip] washtimes.com