Saddam fled Baghdad 3 days ago: Ex-aide

Hindustantimes ^ | 4/6/03

[areafiftyone]

I don't know how credible this Indian Paper is. But I am assuming we will see more reports of Saddam sightings like we did with Bin Laden.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Their guess is as good as anyone's.

[Dog Gone]

If Tikrit were a safe place for Saddam, I'd be concerned.

I'm not.

[rhombus]

I don't know how credible this Indian Paper is. But I am assuming we will see more reports of Saddam sightings like we did with Bin Laden.

Bin Lauden? Who's he? I'm waiting for another mystery message from Waldo... Has he "said" anything since the war began? Guess they can only fabricate one dead man at a time.

[CheneyChick]

I have been informed that once he had firm evidence that the Americans were closing in on Baghdad,

Funny how SH knew this and Baghdad Bob didn't/doesn't. BB says our forces were "tropped" in other parts of the country.

[Great Dane]

If Tikrit were a safe place for Saddam, I'd be concerned.

My thought is, he ran off to Syria.

[MarylandPines]

Great, because Syria is next in line anyway.

[bert]

Bagdad Bob must be rear guard action to cover the retreat.

[freddy]

Bin Laden.???

Who in the h--- is Bin Laden ?

[CAPPSMADNESS]

"My thought is, he ran off to Syria."

My husband believes that we will find Saddam AND Osama in Palestine. I wonder if that would change any minds about a Palestinian state?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Or Lybia, which is on the Syria, Iran, Lybia, Sudan sweep-up list after Iraq.

[DJtex]

If we've run him out of Bahgdad, then this is going to resemble a chess end-game where we've penetrated the back rank and run the King from behind the protection of his row of pawns and onto the open board. It's one of the most humiliating and hopeless ways to end the game since the King cannot ever construct a secure protective ring for himself again and all the enemy pieces keep taking pot-shots while improving their positions.

The chess analogy brings to mind another powerful curiousity. There is no Queen in this game. Imagine how much more credibility Sadaam and his regime would have if there were a Queen--or any hint of family values or stability--all Queenly virtues. In chess the Queen is the most powerful piece, who ultimately coordinates other powerful pieces for the defense of the relatively weak and slow-moving King.

In other words, if Sadaam had cultivated the values of the family and showed himself as a family-man, now his Queen would command great world-respect or at least sympathy. She would focus the world's attention on the brutality and suffering that's being caused and could play a role in a compromise. As it is, this is just a long-overdue visit by the exterminator to rid the house of filthy vermin. Let's hope the bill is not too high ultimately.

[Prince Charles]

Saddam Hussein il Tikrit (S.H.I.T.) was on Iraq TV the other day on a Baghdad street. How can this be???

;-)

[COUNTrecount]

It's not hard to move around if you are in 100 Baggies.

[Arthur McGowan]

In other words, if Sadaam had cultivated the values of the family and showed himself as a family-man, now his Queen would command great world-respect or at least sympathy.

But that's just the main practical problem with the Islamic world--polygamy. If just ten percent of men have four wives, that means there are no wives for thirty percent of men. If other men have three, or two, that contributes to the shortage. Systematic rape of boys and young men by older men is rife. "Family values" are impossible because women are a commodity. No woman can be the mutual partner, the equal of her husband, because polygamy means the wives are interchangeable. The sons of worthless wives necessarily view themselves, and women, as worthless. Without true matrimony, with a huge artificial surplus of males, and with male-male rape endemic, Islamic societies are fundamentally sick--breeding grounds for damaged psyches, pathological rage, and "hyper-masculine" violence.

[Great Dane]

Great, because Syria is next in line anyway.

:-}, guess they forgot to tell Saddam.

[Great Dane]

It's not hard to move around if you are in 100 Baggies.

I shouldn't be laughing, but I am.

[Rudder]

There's a post here--If I come across it again, I'll post the link--that shows several pictures of the "Saddam's walk that took place two days' ago. One shows the back of his head. There's another picture on this same post that shows an early photo of the real Saddam when he was a much younger man. The real Saddam' head is flat in the back, the one who went out for a walk has a head with a rounded back.

[Black Bart]

the Saddam Hussein we saw shaking the hands of his subjects in that extraordinary walkab out on Friday, was definitely a doppelganger

Is there something wrong with Saddam's left arm? I'm noticing in the few videos of him I'm seeing he seldom moves it. The shoulder appears almost frozen. Throughout the on-the-street scene he lifts his right arm and fist over his head, but not his left. At the meeting tables the left arm is either hanging by his side or propped up on the table.

Anyone know if this is the result of a previous assassination attempt, an injury from our bombing, or just my imagination?

[xp38]

I was hoping for a definite end to Saddam but it looks like he is joining Osama in the twilight zone of maybe dead maybe alive.