So Saddam did NOT plot to kill Bush's daddy? Why the rumor??

Question

"The review, conducted for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, combed through 600,000 pages of Iraqi intelligence documents seized after the fall of Baghdad, as well as thousands of hours of audio- and videotapes of Saddam's conversations with his ministers and top aides.

The study found that the IIS kept remarkably detailed records of virtually every operation it planned, including plots to assassinate Iraqi exiles and to supply explosives and booby-trapped suitcases to Iraqi embassies.

But the Pentagon researchers found no documents that referred to a plan to kill Bush. The absence was conspicuous because researchers, aware of its potential significance, were looking for such evidence.

“It was surprising,” said one source familiar with the preparation of the report (who under Pentagon ground rules was not permitted to speak on the record). Given how much the Iraqis did document, “you would have thought there would have been some veiled reference to something about [the plot].”

Answer 1

Lack of evidence is not evidence in an of itself, so the plot could have been thought up.

The claim apparently originated in Kuwait, so there's no smoking gun on the US side for this.

The newsweek article that the Hufpo article you quote apparently references (phew) says

"But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripted remark he made at a Texas political fund-raiser on Sept. 26, 2002. "After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time," Bush said."

This passing comment has been blown out of proportion by the left, along with many parts of the Iraq situation.

So why the Rumor? It made good political hay to pretend that Bush was out to revenge his daddy.

It was easy to digest, and much less difficult to understand than the unprovoked invasion and subsequent rape of Kuwait, the ceasefire, and Saddam not meeting the conditions of said ceasefire for 12 years.

Answer 2

My answer was going to be beacuse the Bush haters want to believe everything negative they hear about the man, but the first answer was so precise and well thought out, that I must defer back to him and give him thumbs up.

Answer 3

What rumour?

The greatest embarassment of the 21st century among the dirty dozen in nailing the wrong man to the cross

When Jesus walk away free.

Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

What do you think?

Answer 4

So, did the Clinton Administration get it wrong when they launched a cruise missile in retaliation back in 1993?