Is perky "Today" show host Katie Couric actually rooting for Saddam Hussein to survive the U.S. military's repeated attempts to take him out?
It sure sounded that way during a report she delivered on the fate of the Baghdad Butcher yesterday.
While chatting about Saddam with NBC's Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, the multimillion-dollar morning host asked whether U.S. officials had been able to "confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria."
Hopefully?
Surely Couric didn't mean to suggest that she actually hoped the brutal dictator would escape justice by fleeing to another terrorist-sponsoring state.
Or did she?
The full exchange went like this:
COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly, anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. officials insist they still don't know what happened when - after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this week.
COURIC: So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria.
MIKLASZEWSKI: That - that's very unlikely considering the kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.
COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks.
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