> the capture of him alive puts the US in a funny position, now possibly to be
> tried for its own bolstering of Saddam during the worst of the massacres he
> will be tried for...Very interesting there was no firefight to the death in
> this case, can't work out to the benefit of the Americans I'd think.
As with most things in American politics, this is about more than just the U.S. "getting their man." This is also about the war on the left, if you look closely at how the right wing spins this. The Free Republic this morning has more stuff bashing Democrats and leftists than it does stuff about a dictator being overthrown. It would be easy to dismiss Free Republic as just being the extreme of the right, but even my father asked me this morning "What's the Left's take on this?" This was not a friendly question.
The war on terrorism, the war in Iraq, and the American drive for Empire is just as much about defeating the left as it is about other stuff.
In other news, if a guerilla war against the U.S.A. can be organized from a small hole in the ground, many anti-US people are going to be feeling inspired this morning. ;-)
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