# Where will Saddam go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829 "2003-03-16T20:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/1 "2003-03-16T20:00:53Z")
So it seems like the hot favourite date for the start of the war is this Wednesday (19th), and warnings to leave Iraq are being issued to foreigners by western consulates etc. Assuming Saddam decides to get out as well, where would he go? What country would be crazy enough to accept him under these circumstances? ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/2 "2003-03-16T20:11:26Z")
I don’t think any place in the Middle East would take him. North Korea, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/3 "2003-03-16T21:33:48Z")
Hmmmm… Maybe FRANCE? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/4 "2003-03-16T22:14:50Z")
What about Syria, Libya or Sudan? I wonder if the US would leave him alone if this scenario played out. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/5 "2003-03-16T22:27:23Z")
[Belarus offered to take him a while back](http://www.naviny.by/node.phtml?index=8482). ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/6 "2003-03-16T22:49:14Z")
To hell, hopefully. If not, France will do. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/7 "2003-03-16T22:55:55Z")
To hell, hopefully. If not, France will do. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/8 "2003-03-16T23:01:07Z")
To hell, hopefully. If not, France will do. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/9 "2003-03-17T01:23:37Z")
One of the grocery store tabloids claimed that Saddam was moving to France and that France intended to make him a citizen and then appoint him as ambassador to the United States. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-saddam-go/161829/10 "2003-03-17T05:36:06Z")
[ul]😛 [sup] **The Hague** [/sup][/ul]