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2003-04-12 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-12 05:31 pm|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Iraqi street already believes what we cant quite get ourselves to accept. That is, in the words of the great Dr. McCoy:

"He's dead Jim".

"Bunker Busters" are great advances in weaponry, but they dont leave a whole lot left to identify.
I suspect we will have to put up with years of storys of Saddam escaping to Argentina in a Uboat ( whoops, sorry, wrong despot!).

This sort of thing fits into human mythology as well, some people are never really allowed to die like normal mortals. Hitler, JFK, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and back in history it was Frederick the Great to whom German legend had it was 'just sleeping' and would arise when Germany was in great need. King Arthur also suffered the same fate, in legend anyway.

Alive or dead, his impact is the same. No country is going to take the risk of getting caught with him, thereby inviting the now demonstrated military strength of the US by doing such a thing. Saddam is(was)a cosmopolitan, not a bedouin who can just go back to goathearding if things go bad, like whats-his-name.

Quite frankly, Who would want to consort with such a loser? His best hope for maintaing any reputation at all is to find out he died early in the war, hence the reason he did so poorly.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-04-12 18:20:29|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-04-12 18:20:29|| Front Page Top

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