WASHINGTON -- The Washington congressman who criticized President Bush while visiting Baghdad last year has questioned the timing of the capture of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., told a Seattle radio station Monday the U.S. military could have found Saddam "a long time ago if they wanted." Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah."
The Democratic congressman went on to say, "There's too much by happenstance for it to be just a coincidental thing."
When interviewer Dave Ross asked again if he meant to imply the Bush administration timed the capture for political reasons, McDermott said: "I don't know that it was definitely planned on this weekend, but I know they've been in contact with people all along who knew basically where he was. It was just a matter of time till they'd find him.
"It's funny," McDermott added, "when they're having all this trouble, suddenly they have to roll out something."
State Republicans immediately condemned McDermott's remarks, saying the Seattle Democrat again was engaging in "crazy talk" about the Iraq war.
"Once again McDermott has embarrassed this state with his irresponsible ranting," GOP state Chairman Chris Vance said in a news release. "Calling on him to apologize is useless, but I call on other Democrats to let the public know if they agree with McDermott -- and Howard Dean, who recently said he thought it was possible that President Bush had advance knowledge about 9/11. The voters deserve to know if the entire Democratic Party believes in these sorts of bitter, paranoid conspiracy theories."
Last year, Vance and other Republicans labeled McDermott "Baghdad Jim" for comments he made during a trip to Baghdad that President Bush "would mislead the American people" but that Saddam could be trusted.
On Monday, Democrats joined the criticism of McDermott.
"With all due respect to my colleague, that is a fantasy," Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said of McDermott's comments. "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."
McDermott, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press, called the timing of Saddam's capture suspicious but said he was not alleging it had been intentionally delayed.
The last 2 words above explains it all... however, it is really getting bad when the Bush haters mutter to themselves that capturing Hussein is a bad thing right now.....some of these people really need to get a grip on the reality in the world, instead of disliking a person soooo much that they think its a bad thing that good things are happening !!!!
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Hey Hilarious Hillary has waged in on this one, too. She says the troops have done a great job. It is just too bad we don't have more troops over there or we would have found him sooner. It is too bad HER HUSBAND cut our military and security forces as deeply as he did or we would have the numbers to put over there. Right now they are looking a 12-18 month tours over there as it is!!
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The voters deserve to know if the entire Democratic Party believes in these sorts of bitter, paranoid conspiracy theories."
Once again, the voters are the problem to start with. It takes votes to get these morons in office. It takes votes to re-elect them. Walk down the street and look at the different types you see. A real eye opener is to do fund raising outside a WalMart for hours and watch the people.....amazing! If some of those dysfunctional derelicts voted at all, you can imagine where their vote would go.
i want all of you to know that you are being mean to my congressman. He has an Honored and Hallowed place in my district. I want all of you to take back every mean thing you said about him. He's a doctor (shrink), a vietnam vet (his words) who was stationed in California never in Vietnam, and he has done so much for the city of Seattle. All of of you apologize to me right now and start saying nice things about him.
Unfortunately I do live in his congressinal district and the majority of the people who live in this district are true believers in him or worse yet won't vote for him because he is not liberal enough. He can say anything he wants because he is preaching to the chior so to speak. Nobody here has a chance against him. Fortunately one of the other very liberal congressmen in this area said something to the effect the McDermott is an idiot. "With all due respect to my colleague, that is a fantasy," Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said of McDermott's comments. "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." Would somebody adopt me and my family so I don't have to live in this wasteland.
Wash. Congressman Questions Saddam Timing
