I am one who thought saddam was dead, simply because he didnt seem to prove otherwise.
In light of saddam being alive, ive moved to the undecided/but leaning dead on obl.
I read every post on all those threads you posted and I only saw a couple people per thread claiming Saddam was dead. Plus all those threads were short, some extremely short. Blink and you would've missed them considering the volume of posts on FR per day. So I wouldn't say there was a big movement on the part of a lot of Freepers to claim Saddam was dead. You exaggerated.