It didn’t take long for Democrats to try and spin the capture of Saddam Hussein into their own advantage. Our own Congressman, Jim McDermott, apparently believes that this is some sort of conspiracy.
On Seattle radio on Monday, he said “there's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing that it happened on this particular day," and "I've been surprised they waited, but then I thought, well, politically, it probably doesn't make much sense to find him just yet.”
Let me remind you that this is the same man who fled to Baghdad to say, likely within earshot of some torture chamber, that the upcoming war was unjustified. Now he thinks we captured Saddam a long time ago; and have been waiting to announce this simply for political gain.
Is there any sort of evidence that this is the case? No, none whatsoever.
McDermott somehow believes that there must be something else about Sunday, December 14, 2003 that caused the Bush administration to release this information. There wasn’t. Its not like some court case involving sexual harassment and perjury was set to open on Sunday so President Bush wanted to deflect attention away from it by firing some missiles.
Whoops, wrong President. There was nothing significant about Sunday other than Saddam’s capture.
In fact, if the Bush administration were trying to milk every drop of political gain from the capture of Saddam by waiting to release the information, then why didn’t they either a) wait until some scandal arose, or b) wait until October 2004 right when the election is approaching. It makes no sense to release this information now if doing so is purely for political gain.
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