Mises Daily
Author:
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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The last-minute Surprise is a great American political tradition, but the Bush administration should get the award for the most preposterous and strategically wacky. The death-penalty verdict against Saddam Hussein in Iraq – imposed by a US-controlled court backed by a US-protected government – was timed to give a lift to the Republicans before