This man has murdered, toutured & back-alley politicked his way to the top. Nobody who does that much to get something he wants—Absolute Power–is ever going to be a quitter.
He’ll die fighting.
I saw an interview of an author of a book on Saddam and he stated that he doesn’t trust his sons. They have to make an appointment if they want to see him and it has taken as long as six weeks to get an appointment. So, it just might be that each of them will have to make the descision to save their own ass.
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Cooperation (world union) will some day give Competition the boot. Our “winner takes all” civilization will continue to be juvenile until then, which is very, very sad.
No one has the right to “impose” ideals on the level that the U.S. has throughout history. A country that considers itself the example for others does not retain complete autonomy over the politics and modern processes of it’s neighbors.
Destruction of the people, whether by political/cultural inadequacies or swiftly by bombs over Bagdhad, should be something of the past. War is nonsensical; there’s always a better way.
Sigh. I wish we were better than this.
Vinnie , I don’t worry about Canada being a future target of US ambition. We have been passively assimilated into your culture for many years 
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But, we have started negotiating a trial separtation. We started with pro-sports teams: you get the Grizzlies and the Expos, we take back the Stanley Cup. Following that, I imagine it’s going to be budweiser and coors for re-runs of Due South and Degrassi. Oh, and we didn’t go to war in Iraq this time around.
There are serious rumblings in the media about if our government’s choice not to back the US directly in the invasion was wise from a political point of view. Will the US retaliate with more trade tariffs or increased scrutiny at the border, etc, etc. At this point nobody knows, but we at least have the benefit of chewing on Kripy Kremes until we find out. And I promise that, either way, we won’t light our oil wells on fire.
Janie Jones:
I think you missed my point. I was refuting the notion that Saddam could be trusted with weapons of mass destruction, because he wouldn’t be reckless enough to give them to terrorists or use them himself. My point is that this whole situation shows how reckless he is - he could have avoided this war at any point up to a few days ago simply by opening up his books and turning over his weapons. He made a reckless gamble with his regime, just like he’s done many times before.
This time he’s going to lose.
Kniz:
Yes, I agree that an “every man for himself” situation is likely. Were I a member of S.H.'s enterage, I wouldn’t want my ultimate survival to be at his benificence.
I don’t know. If I was Saddam I’d be worried about the Mossad coming after me if I ever left Iraq.(At least if I was him and I was in Iraq I’d have loads of troops to keep them from assassinating me.) I mean they’re probably still a little upset about those scuds from 12 years ago.