U.S. offers $25 million reward for Saddam

Your tax dollars at work:

The United States is offering a $25 million reward for information that either leads to the capture of Saddam Hussein or confirms that the former Iraqi leader is dead, U.S. officials announced Thursday.

If this is how the most powerful military in the world has to achieve it’s primary mission objectives, then why didn’t we just do this sooner? Why did we need a whole big war, anyway?

I love this part of the CNN article:

The reward is being offered through the State Department’s Reward for Justice Program, which seeks to prevent acts of terrorism against the U.S., and pays rewards for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of terrorists attempting or committing acts against U.S. interests.

Not to rain on the parade, but how exactly is Hussein a terrorist attempting or committing acts against U.S. interests?

Anyway, let’s not lose focus on the ball here. Capturing him or confirming his death is moot at this point. The questions are: Are our guys going to keep getting attacked over there? How is that whole “democracy thing” coming? Is this still making Americans safter from terrorism? Who’s oil is it?

One useless bad-guy’s head on a stick might not really be the solution to all our problems.

Posted by toe at July 3, 2003 10:54 AM | TrackBack