IF the plamegate indictments come down tomorrow,

[newsguyatl]

the timing honestly COULDN'T be better for bushco. :

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis and the world will get their first glimpse of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) since his capture in December when he and 11 of his top lieutenants are brought to court Thursday to face war crimes charges likely to include the 1988 chemical weapons massacre of Kurds and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.


Already there are pretrial negotiations over permitting Saddam's foreign legal team to work in Iraq (news - web sites), whether to televise the proceedings and whether to reinstate the harshest penalty in Iraq's legal code: hanging by the neck until dead.


Iraq will take legal custody of Saddam from the U.S. Army on Wednesday and the former dictator is to make his first court appearance Thursday, where he will be informed of the charges in his arrest warrant, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced Tuesday.


Salem Chalabi, director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal that will try Saddam, said Thursday's appearance at the tribunal, housed in a courthouse with a prominent clock tower inside Baghdad's sealed-off Green Zone, is expected to be filmed for public release.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040629/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_saddam

[Rose Siding]

1. Do you think it's tomorrow?

Doesn't the Grand Jury have 2 more weeks before they shut down?

[newsguyatl]

5. according to another

duer who's been in touch with the "in touched" says they could come tomorrow or friday.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. The grand jury finishes up tomorrow

It has been speculated that indictments will follow within a couple of day, most likely Friday.

[slinkerwink]

16. I hope it's Friday morning

:-(

[olddem43]

2. I just hope they come soon.

Like Watergate, this needs time to work its way up the chain to the top criminals. Their game will be to try to contain it until the election.

[janx]

3. Oh dear, newsguy. Oh man.

This is not good news.

[PaDUer]

4. OK, tell us what you "heard"...n/t

[MallRat]

6. I thought about it... and I think it'd still be the big story of the day.

Picture this-

If Saddam is marched into court on Thursday morning in Baghdad, then the US morning shows would lead with the story, hours later, at 7am ET Thursday. They'll go into Saddam-a-thon mode for a couple of hours.

But if indictments are coming down on Thursday, they would probably be announced mid-afternoon. Assuming that there's no heads-up for the press, the two stories won't be jockeying for position in the morning. And, after all, THEY ARE INDICTMENTS!

By the time the evening news comes on, the Saddam Hussein arraignment will be nearly 24 hours old. Something as monumental as Plamegate indictments would probably be story #1.

I hope. :shrug:

-MR

[newsguyatl]

7. nope

it will be ALL saddam ALL day -- ESPECIALLY with fresh new video of him.

NOTHING else will get attention.

[mzmolly]

8. I think who is indicted will be the key. If it's some secretary for Dicky

then we've got no hope of getting much air time.

I haven't much faith it will be Cheney or Bush :( Hope I'm wrong.

[Caution]

9. This would certainly explain the reason for the early handover

n/t

[newsguyatl]

12. you got it.

[DemoTex]

11. Check me on this.

This is a DC (District of Columbia) Grand Jury, right. DC is very Democratic, but basically unrepresented in the Congress. All efforts to enfranchise DC, in the recent past, have been squashed by the GOP. Oh, did I mention that the population of Washington, DC, is predominately African-American.

My point? Maybe we have a Grand Jury with which Bu$hco can't tamper. Hard to believe, but maybe true. You go, GJ! We wait with baited breath. Do the right thing. Please.

[beyurslf]

13. Could you even find enough Repubs in DC to fill a grand jury? :)

[SilasSoule]

14. Could Fitzgerald retrun indictments on Libby and perhaps someone else

on Cheney's staff, and also cite as Cheney and even the Chimp himself as undicted co-conspirators with a recommendation of Impeachment proceedings ????

What would repukes in the House Do???

[demgrrrll]

15. Oh. I like those thoughts very much indeed. nt

.

[PartyPooper]

17. Well, there's still Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jackson.

Could something possibly happen with these "stories" to upstage any Plamegate indictments?

:eyes: