[Spruce]

If STRATFOR was on my baseball team, I'd send them to the minors. They can't hit for sh*t.

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[Leroy S. Mort]

Sources in Damascus claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a deal with U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, whereby Saddam Hussein would surrender Baghdad without resistance.

Baloney. An attempt by the Syrians to explain away the collapse and start a Cult of the Risen Saddam.

[stimpyone]

Sorry to butt in here - but don't you have to pay for Stratfor analysis? Isn't it a violation of their copyright to post it here?

[EternalVigilance]

The article is cr*p, IMO.

[alancarp]

Sadamm -- even if NOT smoldering in a giant crater right now -- is in no position to surrender the city. There's simply no way for him to hold up that part of the bargain. We would actually be endangering our troops MORE if we accepted such a deal as vigilantes will continue to go after our people for days, if not weeks.

[Fred Mertz]

Wasn't Putin the head of the KGB at one time?

Wasn't Poppy Bush the director of the CIA in the past?

This is starting to make some sense...

[Mr. Mojo]

Others allegedly involved in the deal include Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri Hadithi, the Russian ambassadors in Damascus and Baghdad and Iraqi ambassadors in Moscow and Damascus. French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder also reportedly know of the deal.

"Alleged" and "reported" by whom? Always the "unnamed" sources. These guys are all a bunch of 007 wannabes.

[Mr. Mojo]

Iraqi opposition groups have claimed that Hussein escaped Baghdad as well.

More bullshit. Perhaps a few members of a few groups made that claim, but there are many such groups, and they don't speak as a whole.