Why suddenly are all the news programs and papers talking about Saddam's trial and showing horrible footage of how he tortured people? I've just watch the first segment of the Today show and I'm suspicious -- so of course, I thought I'd share my thoughts here, knowing how much dkos likes speculative thinking....
After talking about Hurricane Emily, they moved on to at least a 10 minute segment about Saddam's trial coming up and how evil he was, with HORRIBLE footage of the gassed kurds, large hanging "people" hooks, Iraqis being executed...... Why NOW? I'd say it's because all the shit is hitting the fan for BushCo (misleading us to war), and they're trying to reinforce why the war was the right thing to do (removing Saddam). Seems to me the BushCo sent the word out to get his trial started SOON, and made sure the press talked about it NOW.
After that segment, they went on to Rove -- "The Republicans are demanding an apology -- this is a smear campaign -- Democrats hate Rove because he's so effective... blah, blah, blah."
Wow, BushCo must be really, and I do mean REALLY, terrified.