Geez, a decade??!!! The Menendez boys figured out in less than two hours.

When I read that, I was struck by how much it emulated a pack of wolves. At some point, some young male challenges the alpha for leadership.

Story may be true might not. When it comes from Peter Arnett a large grain of salt must be attached. This is the same moron who said we were losing the Iraqi war about three days before Bagdad fell.

Arnett gave the best proof ever that the liberation of Iraq was essential.

Uday was 10 times more violent, 10 times more vicious and 10 times more insane than his father. He was so feared by other governments, that one of the reasons for leaving Saddam in place was so Uday could not take power.

Uday and his henchman would show up at non-Baathist party member weddings and rape the bride. Uday did this so regularly that the young brides were resigned to their fate. He loved shoving victims into plastic shredders feet first, while the family watched.

There is no doubt that George Bush saved the world with the liberation of Iraq.

This doesn't smell right to me. Arnett has a long history of fabricating stories that are damaging to U.S. interests (starting with the famous Vietnam "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" quote, which he most likely made up entirely). This doesn't corroborate with anything we've heard before, it's damaging to Bush if true, and it has a melodramatic feel (the coup plan came "just days" too late). I vote no on this one.

Yaron--

Agreed...I, for one, thought Arnett committed treason during Operation Iraqi Freedom...But, with people like Himmler and Uday Hussein, there's not a lot I would put past them.

I'm not sure I see how this could be damaging to Bush, although the plot is plausible. After all, Saddam and Uday had a falling out which led to Saddam grooming the younger Qusay as heir.
Jake's right, though. The Iraq of today is a billion times better off than an Iraq under Uday.

If you read the article, Arnett's clearly trying to make Uday look like some sort of modernizer:

"According to Arnett, the oldest son of the Iraqi dictator had long been chafing under his father's iron fisted rule and blamed his father for the punishing international sanctions on the country."

So Uday presumably was all set to improve Iraq's standing in the world. The whole argument's a very fragile house of cards.

So Uday presumably was all set to improve Iraq's standing in the world. The whole argument's a very fragile house of cards.

I'm more moonbat than wingnut, but I don't buy that argument. I don't see how anyone could. Everyone knew that Saddam's offspring were just younger, hipper thugs.

Arnett is just farting out of his mouth, hoping someone will mistake the unexpected aroma for unique insight.

If any of the moonbat blogs I visit claim this somehow puts Bush in a bad light, I'll tell them the same.

It's totally irrelevant.

Just like Arnett.

Bush hardly saved the world. the world was in no danger from iraq in 2003.