To be honest I think this is awful.. Its a sham, a stupid joke on something serious that makes me question their journalistic integrity to begin with.sSubZerOo

News to me that the New York Post ever had any serious journalistic integrity.

I've seen people say " Why not do the withdraw the October before the election so Iran doesn't have time to take over and make him look bad?"

Well lets say Iran does decide to take over (hell Iraqs Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is already in bed with them.)

What are our choices? Go back into iraq and face a whole new war with Iran?

That would be the Republicans and their candidates position, not a great position to have with as war fatigued as our county is.

zipozal

I think Iran's happy enough to keep its military involvement and influence in Iraq low-key and clandestine. They may both be Shi'a majority countries, but there are enough differences and past animosity between them to prevent Iran from "taking over". The real danger is not solely Iran, but instead the country becoming a future battlefield for a Sunni-Shi'a proxy war (a la Saudi Arabia and Iran), and Al Qaeda in Iraq gaining enough influence to have a base of operations from which to launch international attacks.

I don't think he even did it. Maybe he was the first man to reach him, but it's starting to look like a post capture execution. Though I wonder if he'll get the 1.7 million dinar reward.

[QUOTE="jetpower3"]

A new question has just crossed my mind (and many others apparently) this year: Could the Arab Spring uprising instead have led to the overthrow of Saddam?

Ace6301

Anything that is homegrown and that evolved on its own is much better than any unilateral military intervention. Of that you can be sure (not to mention the fact that two uprisings back in the 1990s against Saddam would have no doubt been revived).

A new question has just crossed my mind (and many others apparently) this year: Could the Arab Spring uprising instead have led to the overthrow of Saddam?

I thought she was already dead.

So... is TV reality too?Frame_Dragger

No, fact is fiction.

[QUOTE="Netherscourge"]

Bin Laden - DEAD

Ghaddafi - DEAD?

Mubarek - Ousted

Ben Ali - Ousted

Syria? - To be Determined...

Obama may be a 1-term president, but he sure as hell takes care of business with dictators and terrorists!

Wasdie

I don't think Obama had anything to do with the death of Ghaddafi. That would be really undermining the efforts of the Lybian rebels.

I wouldn't even credit Obama for leading the charge in the air war. That was mostly the British and the French.

I was reading on my physical copy of the Wall Street Journal today that he had fled to an African country and was mounting resources for a comeback.

Why hide in his hometown, of all places?

The_Capitalist

Maybe he's taking a page from the playbook of OBL: hiding in plain (or rather obvious) sight. Don't forget Saddam was found not far from his hometown as well.

[QUOTE="Elraptor"][QUOTE="Diophage"] You can keep dreaming. There will be much more bloodshed. surrealnumber5

They still need to get his sons.