[rightbanker]

Think like an evil dictator on his last leg, defeated and humiliated by a president who is finally going to outlast him in power.

Ask yourself what can you do to bring him down, even now?

Not much you answer. But there is this:

You can let him take you alive, rather than dead. You can count on getting a trial, which will give you a platform to speak to Iraq and the world.

From your platform, you declare that Iraq had abandoned its lust for WMD as a fruitless. You declare that you offered Bush a way out before the war and he refused.

With your last desparate breath, you try to paint Bush's war as a war of pure aggresion, a war based on lies, on lust for Iraqi oil, on an imperialist desire to import "western" values and forms of life into the cradle of Arabic "civilization."

It's pretty desparate. But you know that Bush wanted you dead rather than alive and you know why. So when the game is up rather than take your own life or go down fighting, you live to tell your tale on the world stage.

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, I could simply counter that with the fact that Bush did indeed take him alive. If he wanted him dead, he would now be dead.