[mattdono]

Wishful thinking, and that is about it...

[oceanview]

I agree. If he had died in that first attack, the entire regime structure would be imploding right now.

[DB]

They guy doing the speech yesterday didn't look like Saddam.

[tm22721]

Actually Saddam has been dead since 1993 and the regime has been fronting doubles ever since.

BUMP

[Moby Grape]

If he had been killed...there would have been SURRENDER by now...he is still alive.

[HamiltonJay]

That guy on TV last night looked NOTHING like the Saddam I have seen in photos and newscasts before. He may be alive, but I highly doubt that guy on TV last night was Saddam

[the_doc]

I wouldn't call this "wishful thinking," since that's a term which presupposes that the hopes are false.

(Gosh, you have no warrant to say that the Pentagons hopes are surely false. I personally suspect that the Pentagon suspicions that Saddam is dead are, at the very least, well-founded suspicions. That's not based on wishful thinking on my part, but based on my respect for our military--which certainly has earned my respect.)