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Saddam did NOT try to kill old man Bush in 1993
THAT is what is also in the Pentagon's just-released assessment showing Saddam Hussein did not have WMDs or a real connection with al-Qaeda.
Te biggie, though? The alleged George H.W. Bush assassination plot by Iraqi intelligence in 1993. Alleged -- the Pentagon says no evidence to back this up either.
Rather, let's go back to the working assumption some of us have had for more than a decade... the al-Sabah ruling sheikhs of Kuwait set the whole thing up.
MOre on my personal blog.
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Comments (3)
One of the Iraq books, maybe it was FIASCO, made the point that Saddam probably didn't know about any assassination plot against Bush 41.
March 24, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hersh's piece on this makes it pretty clear that there was no attempt on Poppy's life. I think most people still believe it's true unfortunately.
March 24, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
First, Saddam Hussein was not a nice guy; he was a sonofabitch. But he was, as Truman said of Somozo, "Our sonofabitch".
Second, Hussein was a survivor -- and not stupid. He knew that threatening the US -- a mistake he did not make -- would get his ass handed to him.
So of course Hussein had nothing to do with the ALLEGED assassination ATTEMPT.
But what did you expect whiny, snot-nosed shitted-pants more-a-sadist-than-Hussein W. G. "Torture King" Bush to say? That he was jealous of Hussein as compared with himself?
March 25, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
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