[Saddam's] trial will begin "very soon, in the next few weeks," Mouwafak al-Rabii, a Shiite Muslim council member, told The Associated Press. "We will get [Iraqi national] sovereignty on the 30th of June, and I can tell you, he could be executed on the 1st of July," said al-Rabii, a longtime human rights activist.

Well, tha[sic] capture of Sadaam takes the ‘failure to capture’ issue off the table. Now that the economy is picking up (mall was packed yesterday), Iraq is getting better, prescription drugs on the way, education spending at an all-time high, no further terrorist attacks—what is left? Oh, yes, the capture of Bin Laden.

If that happens, we are completely sunk.

Soldiers searched the hut, made up of two rooms — a bedroom and a kitchen. No one else was found. The soldier who participated in the raid described it as "just two rooms and a sink, there was one bed and one chair and some clothes and that's about it." Soldiers seized two rifles, a pistol, a taxi and $750,000 in U.S. currency in a suitcase. They also found new clothes in unopened wrappers, which Odierno suggested meant Saddam had not been there long.

"We didn't stay there long. It smelled really bad," the soldier said. "It looked more like a garage than a proper house."