{"id":8973,"date":"2006-11-06T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8973.html"},"modified":"2006-11-06T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T17:30:26","slug":"hes-guilty-theyll-tell-us-why-after-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hes-guilty-theyll-tell-us-why-after-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s guilty; they’ll tell us why after the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an Iraqi court convicted [tag]Saddam Hussein[\/tag] yesterday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death, the ruling was a little short on details. In fact, there was no formal explanation\/reasoning at all, only a [tag]verdict[\/tag] and a [tag]sentence[\/tag]. Josh Marshall, noting an NBC report<\/a>, explains why<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full verdict, a document of several hundred pages, explaining how and why today’s judgment was reached was not released. U.S. officials said it should be ready by Thursday. So why issue the verdict today? U.S. court advisors told reporters today it was delayed mainly for technical reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Josh noted, “They put in all manner of caveats explaining how there’s no proof the verdict was timed for political purposes. But it certainly seems like they couldn’t actually get the verdict ready for the November 5th slam dunk. So they announced it for US electoral benefit. And they’ll do their best to get the actual verdict done by [tag]Thursday[\/tag].”<\/p>\n

How sporting of them. The verdict had<\/i> to be issued before the U.S. [tag]elections[\/tag] — officials didn’t say why — and they’ll wrap up pesky details such as the judgment just as soon as the midterm elections are over.<\/p>\n

Of course, the fact that Bush administration officials ran the trial<\/a> and paid for it<\/a> is completely irrelevant. To even question this is just silly, right?<\/p>\n

As [tag]Paul Krugman[\/tag] put it<\/a>, “[I]f you think the timing of the Saddam verdict was coincidental, I\u2019ve got a terrorist plot against the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When an Iraqi court convicted [tag]Saddam Hussein[\/tag] yesterday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death, the ruling was a little short on details. In fact, there was no formal explanation\/reasoning at all, only a [tag]verdict[\/tag] and a [tag]sentence[\/tag]. Josh Marshall, noting an NBC report, explains why. The full verdict, a document of several […]<\/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-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","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=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}