Identifier
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06SAOPAULO1169
2006-11-06 11:14:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S CONDEMNATION, US MIDTERM
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UNCLAS SAO PAULO 001169
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S CONDEMNATION, US MIDTERM
ELECTIONS; SAO PAULO
"Parties Try To Take Advantage Of Condemnation"
Washington correspondent Sergio Davila reported (11/6) in liberal,
largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo: "Planned or
not, coincidence or not, the fact is that Saddam Hussein was
condemned to be hung by the Iraqi justice exactly 72 hours before
the midterm elections that will renew part of the US Congress. The
verdict was issued three days before the elections, in a trial that
was stuck for months and seemed as if would continue stuck for a
long time. It will not be a regular election, but an election that
may, for the first time since 1992, give control of the Congress to
the Democratic opposition and, according to the most recent opinion
polls, has the war in Iraq as the main issue.... CNN correspondent
in Baghdad reported that the population went to the streets to
celebrate the verdict (would they be the same people who in 2003
welcomed the invaders with 'flowers and hugs'?). Since yesterday,
the White House can already say: 'Mission accomplished.' And leave
Iraq immediately."
McMullen
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S CONDEMNATION, US MIDTERM
ELECTIONS; SAO PAULO
"Parties Try To Take Advantage Of Condemnation"
Washington correspondent Sergio Davila reported (11/6) in liberal,
largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo: "Planned or
not, coincidence or not, the fact is that Saddam Hussein was
condemned to be hung by the Iraqi justice exactly 72 hours before
the midterm elections that will renew part of the US Congress. The
verdict was issued three days before the elections, in a trial that
was stuck for months and seemed as if would continue stuck for a
long time. It will not be a regular election, but an election that
may, for the first time since 1992, give control of the Congress to
the Democratic opposition and, according to the most recent opinion
polls, has the war in Iraq as the main issue.... CNN correspondent
in Baghdad reported that the population went to the streets to
celebrate the verdict (would they be the same people who in 2003
welcomed the invaders with 'flowers and hugs'?). Since yesterday,
the White House can already say: 'Mission accomplished.' And leave
Iraq immediately."
McMullen