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OK,
Superbelt has found an article that may or may not be credible, marked it as such, and noted that he is waiting to hear more on it before he buys into it. Where's the conspiracy theory there? If one swallows this hook, line, and sinker, then one is no better than those who, like certain simian infants, seem to have swallowed the neocon line and will defend it to the rapidly approaching death of their credibility.
Now, LD has a good point: $25M is a chunk of change. But will it buy all of Kurdistan? Will it buy the oil wells of Kirkuk? If Kurds caught Hussien, and brought him in to a Kurdish leader, there is no way he would have been harmed. He's golden. Laying aside the money, if it could be arranged for American troops to find and "capture" him without bloodshed, perhaps the Americans would be willing to look favorably on Kurdish claims to some of the Northern "Sunni Triangle". The Kurds are probably deluded if they believe this, but it wouldn't be the first time nationalism has been manipulated.
It could have happened like that. Most likely not, but there's a possibility. Let's see who else picks up the story before we get hackles raised.
Ustwo: I agree that this is wishful thinking unless there's significant corroberation. Even with a fundamentally dishonest administration like the one we have now, it takes more than one news item to condemn them of anything specific. However, when one is asked, essentially, "Why would you think they are dishonest," it is an open invitiation to pull in any or every instance of their patently mendacious behavior. In reply to that question none of their significant spins or dishonesties is really off topic. Don't want to hear about them? Don't ask open ended questions. (Not that you did, but you used a reply to someone else's open question to criticize the relevance of the reply.)
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