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Since Bin Laden got away. Lets try this again. When do you think Saddam Insane will be captured or killed?

I'm gonna give him a few weeks, month at max

I was listening to a talk radio interview with Sarg Maj. Hayes or something like that, anyways he was the guy who developed the real life "Delta Force". He said the technology difference between now and 1991 is 10 fold. That we have bombs or missles that can penetrate bunkers twice as far in as they used too.

I also read somewhere,...can't find the link now, but its said they would launch in 24 hours the same amount of bombs and stuff that they launched in the entire first Gulf War combined.

Saddam is a dead Sum Beoitch. Sadly, so are a whole buncha innocent average Joe's, women and children.

I have a feeling he'll but caught, but we have to consider 2 things here:

a) If we couldn't catch him the first time, what makes us think we'll have better luck this time? (Our technology isn't all that much better than it was in 1991. Some bombs are bigger, or can penetrate bunkers more easily, but our human intelligence hasn't improved at all -- and that's what really matters.)

b) If we couldn't catch Osama bin Laden, what makes us think we can catch a man with better funding, more room to hide, and countless dozens of red herrings and look-alikes? From a strategic standpoint, it would be much easier to spirit Saddam out of Iraq by secured, underground passageway than it would be for bin Laden to have left Afghanistan via a craggy, underground tunnel whose entrances and exits were fully surveilled by satellite. And bin Laden sure as heck succeeded. (Assuming he was even in Afghanistan to begin with when we started bombing).

Saddam's only real difficulty is the fact that he'll have to stay in Iraq to ensure his legions' loyalty. Morale would be low among his troops if they learned their exhalted leader had abandoned them. On the other hand, he has proven himself capable of manipulating his men -- to the point where he could easily give the illusion of being present in Baghdad. At least convincingly enough to persuade his soldiers to fight on.

Saddam may be a maniacal tyrant, but he's not an idiot. My gut tells me he's already left the country, and set up means to ensure that his people still think he's with them.

Add an option:
Add, "Killed by the U.S. and have his existance and well being circulated so we have a scapegoat threat whenever the future circumstances dictate without the possiblity of him actually harming us, because he is buried under Iraqi sand in some obscure location"

That would be my vote

I think he is cagey enough that when things go bad, he'll pull the plug on Iraq and get some late deal for exile. He's slippery, smart and well funded, like Millie pointed out.

Unless the US lucks into him I think he'll live to laugh at the people of Iraq from a luxurious house arrest some place...

It appears there is a chance we killed him on that first strike.

The networks are furious!

Must kill innoncent people first, then we will have finnished our mission!

Can't kill him too soon. Think of the lost ratings! And all those graphics and slides they created.

You know, did any one think that maybe thousands of innocent civilians might not die because our weapons are so precise now that we won't be launching daisy cutters into the middle of a marketplace? I'm all for people on the side of the Iraqi people, but jesus christ, with Bush's ass on the line so far, I'd be willing to bet France puts him up for war crimes charges if he were to allow large scale bombing of civilain centers. Can an anti-war advocate please come up with a better argument than that?

I saw on CNN where they wanted to make him a martyr.

Fallanthas wrote:

Saddam may be a maniacal tyrant, but he's not an idiot. My gut tells me he's already left the country, and set up means to ensure that his people still think he's with them.

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Unfortunately that's probably true.   



Gotta be tough to sneak out at this late stage of the game, though.  His country has been under a microscope for months.

Yah cause giving your bodyguard your cellphone and sending him the other way from the Pakistan border making phonecalls all the way while they ignore you running like hell in the other direction is pretty damn complicated. For those that don't know, that was how Ossama Been Hiding got away in the mountians when we had him "surrounded".