Arnett: That Son of a B****

One of the few positive things about the Peter Arnett article in Playboy was that he wasn't doing a photo shoot. In a news story that is getting a lot of play, Arnett (yes, the CNN reporter who pandered to Saddam in every way) claimed that Saddam's oldest son, Uday, was ready to topple Saddam just as the U.S. forces stormed Baghdad. As if the entire invasion was unnecessary because a transfer of power was going to take place anyway.

Vodka Pundit has a nice piece reminding us who Uday Hussein was. Just one example:

In October 1988, at a party thrown in the honor of the wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Uday beat and stabbed to death one of his father's favorite servants, Kemal Hana Gegeo. Gegeo had recently introduced Saddam to a beautiful, younger woman who later became Saddam's second wife. Uday took this as an insult to his mother, Saddam's cousin and first wife. Uday carried out the murder coolly and coldly, bludgeoning Gegeo repeatedly in front of horrified guests before finishing him off with a steak knife. President Mubarak later called the 6' 8" Uday a "psychopath."

Read the whole thing.