{"id":8766,"date":"2006-10-16T10:49:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8766.html"},"modified":"2006-10-16T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T14:49:21","slug":"a-november-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-november-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"A November surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials have been helping guide the [tag]Saddam Hussein[\/tag] [tag]trial[\/tag] from the outset, and today we learn that the case should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15285264\/\">wrapped up soon<\/a> &#8212; just in time for a certain domestic event.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A [tag]verdict[\/tag] against [tag]Saddam[\/tag] [tag]Hussein[\/tag] 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.<\/p>\n<p>Sentences for those found guilty will be issued the same day, chief investigating judge Raid Juhi told The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, Saddam Hussein will almost certainly be convicted and sentenced to death on Nov. 5. You don&#8217;t suppose Bush administration officials pushed for a date that would fall just 48 hours before the midterm elections, do you? It&#8217;s not as if politics has ever been allowed to dictate events in Iraq before, right?<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials have been helping guide the [tag]Saddam Hussein[\/tag] [tag]trial[\/tag] from the outset, and today we learn that the case should be wrapped up soon &#8212; just in time for a certain domestic event. A [tag]verdict[\/tag] against [tag]Saddam[\/tag] [tag]Hussein[\/tag] and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}