I wonder if they will try him or just send him to Gitmo?

Trial??? Gitmo???

How about a nice, slow walk down the center of Bagdad. You know, mingle with the people....

I think first he will be, um, debriefed.

Debriefed? not if he wears boxers!

Awww, darn...I'm gonna miss DON...

"I wonder if they will try him or just send him to Gitmo?"

Can't go to gitmo. Options: iraqi's try him (not likely u.s. choice); international court (most likly choice).

I hope he got his confession done when he last visited the Pope.

Having read up on some of the "debriefing" techniques used by a few of the coalition members i can safely say it does not matter if he wears Boxers Or Briefes to his "group chat", they will soon be around his ankles...or if a CIA jock gets ahold of him up around his ears. Squeeel! Then they can take him for his walk with his fellow citizens (good one scott).

Just #43? I figured he'd be higher just on name recognition and notoriety alone...

Oh great...now this jackass is going to stand in front of the cameras and swear blind that there have just never been any WMD's in Iraq, and this was all unjustified, etc. etc.

Watch the NY Times swoon, and CNN report "this blow to the administrations credibility" in hushed and serious tones. I suspect that Clinton will be on television within 24 hours.

I thought I read somewhere that Tarik may not have been involved in much of the "rough stuff" and that he might not be a candiate for the war crimes team because much of his work was done outside of the country. He was more of a matre di, and not part of the kitchen staff.
Feel free to correct me if I am off base here. I actually would look forward to hearing his point of view from Saddam luxury suite. I do know that his son was jailed in a little tiff with Uday, so he may be valuable to us in other ways.

Someone pointed out on MSNBC that the military drew up that list of cards, so obviously as a diplomat Tariq is on the bottom in terms of threat.

It's not an Intel list..

Tariq Aziz is complicated, and I expect he'll be given every opportunity to talk. Besides being the only Christian in Saddam's inner circle, his son Ziyad was imprisoned by Hussein in 2001. Also remember all the American movies and books found in his apartment.

Aziz was privy to everything going on inside Iraq but also dealt with the rest of the world. A man will say anything when there's a gun pointed at his son's head, now's when we find out if he ever saw the truth or was instead consumed by delusion.

Phil,
I don't think that our friend Tariq will be seen infront of any cameras any time soon, unless what he has to say is to our benefit.

I think it's certainly possible that Tariq is a true believer. Maybe he agreed with his son's imprisonment.

I don't think we are going to get anything from him,

I think Sipowitz can get him to flip...

As best as I can tell, Saddam and Tariq are best buds. Perhaps Saddam paid and/or compelled Tariq to be his friend, but he was rather loyal nonetheless.

I would think that Tariq would have been with Saddam in any meeting where they were laying out plans to bail out of Baghdad. The capture of Tariq raises the odds in my view that Saddam is still alive.

Of course, this is all conjecture on my part. Maybe Saddam planned to bail without taking his buddy with him...

It's not difficult to believe that Aziz and other Iraqis would be "true believers" in the Baath party and the Saddam personality cult. If you read Hanah Arendt's "The Origin of Totalitarianism" you'll see that this is possible. Thousands of devout Nazis and Communists went to their deaths still fervently believing in their leaders and even that their deaths were justified and necessary.

I agree, Miguel. It almost seems to me that these people, including Saddam think they can ride this thing out, then resurface once the US has gone, to retake power and declare victory.

Saddam is no military genious, but he is a genius at survival. I keep wondering, in the back of my mind, was this his "plan" all along? We all know the clock is ticking on how long the Iraqis are going to tolerate the foreigners on their soil. They've been free for 2 weeks, and already there are mobs telling the troups to go away.

I guess one has to have evidence to incriminate or prosecute someone. These days this is a line fast disappearing, since the development of the concentration camps on Gitmo. Just being sighted on the "bad guy" side is enough.

I read today that Aziz resigned in protest of his son's imprisonment, but his resignation was not accepted by Saddam, who needed someone who could speak to Westerners without sounding like a total nut case - Comical Ali would not do, here.

So since 2001 Aziz has been a reluctant member of the regime. Maybe there's hope he will talk.