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Don't expect Hussein to be the silver bullet of the election. Howard Dean was smart enough to simply say this was a great day for Iraq instead of humbly congratulating Bush on the capture. November is a LONG way away. If the economy is still crap, regardless of the Dow Jones Average, Bush will have to work. He could pull an October Surprise, pushing the Iraqi tribunal to find Saddam guilty and hang him, say, a week before our election, but that would be an obvious ploy even to US voters. In order to score points on the nerds of selective history that populate the NYT editorial pages, I must say this has the ring of the story Caesar and Vercingetorix. After a bitter campaign in Germany (or was it Gaul?), Caesar captured the wily guerrilla leader and had him brought back to Rome. Vercingetorix rotted in a dungeon for 2 years before being publicly strangled during one of Caesar's triumphal celebrations.
My ex-girlfriend, of a Cultural Studies background, read the shaving as a symbolic castration (besides making it easier to identify him).
At least now it will be clear that Baathist rebels were just one group out of many.
A BBC commentator mentions that Hussein has always been one to take long chances. Despite his shock, look for him to make trouble for Bush during the trial. It's true you can't believe anything he says, but on the stand he can still tear holes in White House logic. |
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