# How do we know Saddam's not in his bunker?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 2, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-know-saddams-not-in-his-bunker/165880 "2003-04-02T03:50:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-know-saddams-not-in-his-bunker/165880/21 "2003-04-03T07:54:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by manhattan \*  
> \*\*He is either dead or he isn’t – the facts are unavailable to us at this time. \*\*

So he’s the Schrödinger’s Cat of petty despots? The Iraqi leader has an astounding level of sophistication in quantum mechanics then, and that is the surest sign yet that Iraq has a nuclear weapons program.

[sub]astonishingly i’m sober[/sub]

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-know-saddams-not-in-his-bunker/165880/22 "2003-04-03T16:41:33Z")

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They showed him on tv this morning, alive, Rilchiam. So I guess when we see him on tv we know he is alive? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-know-saddams-not-in-his-bunker/165880/23 "2003-04-03T20:18:24Z")

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Huh? Catch me up on this; I’m up at night and sleep in the antemeridian. He gave a live broadcast, as opposed to submitting another video, and interacted with people? Or did they just show another video?

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**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-we-know-saddams-not-in-his-bunker/165880/24 "2003-04-03T20:41:25Z")

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> Rilchiam–  
> Saddam himself wouldn’t pull the trigger on a dirty bomb, or a chemical/biological attack. There’s also probably a plan that had already been put in place regarding when these weapons would be used (hence they might not need presidential authorization anymore). Anything he could do could be done just as well or better by other members of the regime. \*\*

I totally agree. This is why having an outrageously expensive and destructive war to supposedly get rid of just one guy is completely unacceptable.

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