Coincidence?
If so…it’s mighty big one.
I do believe there is much more to this story than we know.
There are stories floating around that the brothers had been in custody for some time. Not that I believe them but it sure looks funny.
What say the teeming masses?
So what? The Hussein brothers were killed on the same day 68 innocent people died in Monrovia… so what?
Pure coincidence, and more than a little bit tacky if truth be known. The world is full of sadness and tragedy. It’s dreadfully unfortunate, but the assertion that it’s part of some conspiracy is just a bit insensitive for mine.
No link at all for mine. To attempt to find one is ummm… well… horrid actually.
Yeah, I think Uday and Qusay wanted to die in a bloody gunfight a week earlier, but Bush called them and said, “You know, it would be really handy if you guys just laid low a week, so we can kill you on the day that report comes out. Thanks a bunch.”
Or alternatively, the report was finished earlier, but someone said, “Hey, let’s sit on it until we can kill someone really important, and then we can release the report on the same day!”
Is there no end to the number of wacky conspiracy theories you can come up with?
I say weak conspiracy theory. Which of the following is most plausible?
The brothers’ location has been known for weeks but Bush held off killing them until the report was released.
The brothers were killed last week and the bodies held in freezers until the report was released.
The brothers were captured a while ago but executed on the same day the report was released and a sham firefight was conducted.
The brothers are actually working for the CIA and two body doubles were executed and a sham firefight fought for the cameras.
The brothers are actually in collusion with the Grays in Area 51 working on anti-matter drives for Majestic 12.
This member of the teeming masses feels that there is plenty to actually call the Bush administration on without needing to resort to off the wall conspiracies leveled with absolutely no supporting evidence. Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence, and until I see some evidence suggesting otherwise, that’s all it is to me.
The September 11th report was released by Congress. Uday and Qusay were killed by the U.S. Army (by Bush’s army, if you prefer). There’s not even a connection here.
One can never be too cynical, but even if Bush did manage somehow to time this one this way, it failed in its attempted purpose.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all, but Presidents have done far worse things than this. Like invade foreign countries on made up lies, for instance.
OK, so the Congressional Report has been scheduled for release on July 24 for several weeks. (Check older news reports; there has been constant speculation about what it would say or what would be suppressed.)
So, that date is fixed.
Now we throw in the “rumor” (invented for the occasion) that the Hussein brothers were already “in custody” (and that the Feds did not trumpet that news to the world when it happened ?!?).
So, do we knock them off, in a “surgical strike” and claim vistory? No, we send in a group of grunts to pick them up (without telling the grunts who they are after), then we spend six hours futzing around with reinforcements and helicopter attacks, leading to all sorts of recriminations that we should have laid siege to the building or tried harder to talk them out, to say nothing of the Mosul natives who have shown a certain amount of irritation at the way the fight was handled with the destruction of the villa.
If the Hussein brothers were slain elsewhere and smuggled into the villa, the owner of the villa is going to be really, really mad at the destruction done, simply to make a proganda point, and he is not going to remain quiet (not to mention that his wife, son, and daughters were all in the house, originally, all of whom would know whether the Hussein boys had been there).
So, good conspiracy buffs, what is the supposed point?
The deaths of the Hussein brothers has not distracted anyone from the report, which is big news and will continue to be news long after Odai and Qusai have fallen from the spotlight.
The report does not link Iraq to al Qaida, so there is nothing gained by having the two events coincide.
This is silly. You are starting to flood GD with the most absurd conspiracy lunacies to no purpose. Even with a complete contempt for and hatred of Bush and his buddies, one should try to use some basic reasoning skills to not clutter up the boards with outlandish plots that have no point.
I heard* that the Hussein brothers deliberately let themselves be killed in that time and place in order to distract from a report released by Lithuanian intelligence that same day detailing the shocking truth about Iraq’s massive stockpile of genetically-engineered air-vectored hyper-Ebola and its legions of giant killer laser-death-ray-equipped virus-dispensing undersea robots lying in readiness on the ocean floor 200 miles off the coast of New York City, waiting for Saddam to give the order to strike from his Secret Stealth Orbital Command Base.
*OK, I didn’t actually “hear” that; I just made it up right now.
Thank God for President Bush and his courageous and wise leadership!
I mean, geeze, Reeder, you’re makin’ me want to go out and become a Republican or something. How about we talk about the “16 words” from Bush’s State of the Union address?
Hey, here’s another “theory”…Maybe Reeder is really a GOP/White House operative, trying to throw everyone off the scent of the real scandal, and discredit opposition to the administration, with irrelevant and silly things like this…
My god, what’s the point? Though I myself am very liberal, I do not think the Bush administration PERSONALLY was responsible for 9/11/2001, and cannot see what on Earth they had to gain from somehow “overshadowing” its release. Or are you saying the intelligence agencies somehow engineered this in order to prevent them from being further humiliated? It doesn’t seem to be working.