Rep. McDermott: U.S. Could Have Nabbed Saddam 'a Long Time Ago'

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Rep. McDermott: U.S. Could Have Nabbed Saddam 'a Long Time Ago'

We knew some nutty Democrat would say this, and the culprit is, naturally, Rep. "Baghdad" Jim McDermott. Outdoing fellow Saddamites Howard Dean and Katie Couric, he claims the U.S. military could have found Iraq's genocidal former dictator "a long time ago" if it had wanted to.

McDermott told KIRO radio in Seattle on Monday that there were people "all along who knew basically" where Saddam Hussein was.

"I've been surprised they waited, but then I thought, well, politically, it probably doesn't make much sense to find him just yet," he said.


"There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing that it happened on this particular day."



Asked if he thought the capture was timed out to help President Bush, McDermott laughed and said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah."

And then came this Dean-like zinger: "The fact that he is in captivity does not change things."


Republicans and even some Democrats in increasingly leftward Washington, home state of Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, immediately condemned McDermott's "crazy talk."

"With all due respect to my colleague, that is a fantasy," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash. "That just is not right. ... It's one thing to criticize this administration for having done this war. I mean, that's a fair question. But to criticize them on the capture of Saddam, when it's such a big thing to our troops, is just ridiculous."


Washington Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance noted, "Once again McDermott has embarrassed this state with his irresponsible ranting."

Ah, and the Democrats keep wondering why their party is shrinking.


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"There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing that it happened on this particular day."

I dont get what he means by this particular day. What was special about that day that made it politically sensible, over doing it sooner or later?
 

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Probably that it came one week after the tribunal to prosecute Hussein's henchmen, when caught, was established, and ten days before Christmas. I thnk Bush was at or near his lowest in the opinion polls as well, with Dean stealing alot of the headlines recently.

Just guesses, tho.
 

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They definatly knew he was in the area for months and might of even wanted to find away to get him alive with no shoot out.
 

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Are they holding off on Bin Laden for greater affect also? How can the most powerful nation on earth not be able to catch a 6'7" guy attached to a kidney dialysis machine?!
 

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KMAN,

I'm a liberal Democrat and I'll even admit that was an asinine thing to say. No matter what time they found him, whether it be the start of the Xmas season or the start of Yom Kippur, it was obviously gonna spike Buh's public relations. To imply that this was staged at a certain date definitely is a piss poor way to get attention for himself.
 

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