Is Saddam Dead?

I think this thread will be closed and/or purged before 12:45 EST.

 

For one thing the title should have read "I think Saddam is dead"

 

Not that it's worth anything, but drudge is reporting Saddam may be dead.

 

not worth much. CNN is reporting that DoD thinks guy in tape is saddam

 

For what it's worth Drudge is quoting CBS.

 

apparently none of it is worth much right now

 

I'll say this. No way in the world that Saddam's broadcast was live. He wouldn't be stupid enough to do that.

 

Currently Iraq has a better high-speed communication system than some neighborhoods in Silicon Valley. He could have been anywhere, and just transmit the signal to the station by land lines.

 

Even if it wasn't our favorite 80's WMD receiver, what would that prove?

He has doubles for a reason.

 

it looks like we're going to run into the same thing that happened in the early days of the Afghanistan campaign--

the media is going to focus on the "did we kill/catch him" question (without any proof that makes for a real argument) while ignoring more important and interesting stories

 

Is he dead? See my avatar and title.

 

Is that Saddam Hussein or Harry Caray?

Can't quite tell with those glasses.

 

Well, the guy in the photo is definitley NOT Saddam. But he ain't dead.

 

Why does that make you happy?

 

I'm not sure if he's dead (hope so), but that video was not him. It doesn't even look like the same guy.

 

You really are a fucking idiot.

I'm going to assume that you're not serious. But in case you are, have you ever heard of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? The line "I'm not quite dead yet." Did you happen to notice the when I wrote "see my avatar and my title?"

Moron. I relish the idea of Saddam's death. I wish the US would've let the inspectors really find the goods on the Iraqis, because I think eventually, given time, they would have, and then there'd be no question about whether or not this war was justified. As it stands right now, we're attacking based on humor, innuendo, half-truths and some outright lies.

 

Saddam has been able to deceive us for 12 years. I don't see how we would suddenly be able to reverse the tide there and suddenly find the "goods" on him.

 

I'm thinking Saddam is dead. I'm also thinking the US knows it already, given their strategy today. Instead of the "shock and awe" attack that everyone is talking about, the US is merely moving forward on the ground towards Baghdad. Reports are that senior Republican Guard leaders are negotiating surrender, probably with the knowledge that Hussein is dead. This could be a rather bloodless war, with the march into Baghdad a coronation rather than a confrontation.

 

Yes, I did notice the smiley. That's why it came off as you being happy.


Alex

 

= joke.

 

also works well for said situation.

 

mike, that avator is freaking me out.

looks like a fat version of saddam...

oh wait, it is suppose to be saddam.

i just do not believe it...