U.S. officials have been helping guide the Saddam Hussein trial from the outset, and today we learn that the case should be wrapped up soon — just in time for a certain domestic event.
A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced Nov. 5, a senior court official said on Monday.
Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, chief investigating judge Raid Juhi told The Associated Press.
Hmm, Saddam Hussein will almost certainly be convicted and sentenced to death on Nov. 5. You don't suppose Bush administration officials pushed for a date that would fall just 48 hours before the midterm elections, do you? It's not as if politics has ever been allowed to dictate events in Iraq before, right?
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Even if Saddam is convicted in Nov. the voters will be looking at how many of our troops are dying as they are in the middle of a Iraq civil war. The only people that will cheer if Saddam is convicted is the Shites and they have no vote in the US. I really don't think even the capture of Bin Ladin would change the vote right now. Karl Rove has to do what he did in 2000 and 2004 that is to fix the machines/not let Dems vote/put people in fear of voting/fix the count in the write in ballots.
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