It’s over, it’s over: how Saddam told his sons the war was lost

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 06/29/03 | Jon Swain

[vbmoneyspender]

Last week Hassan said: "He has spent his life hiding from his enemies. He is very wily, and look - they haven't yet been able to catch even me."

Hassan, why not just paint a bullseye on your chest?

[Rennes Templar]

...Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi, the chief of staff of the Republican Guard.

You should have seen his name before they shortened it

[TheSpottedOwl]

According to the aide, Saddam’s younger son, Qusay, sobbed and pleaded to be allowed to go into hiding with his father. But Saddam replied: “Splitting up gives us a better chance of survival.”

Sobbed and pleaded? This is even worse than anything Bahgdad Bob could come up with. Sobbed and pleaded; isn't that what Qusay's victims did before they died?

[DannyTN]

"Sobbed and pleaded?"

Like Saddam's father did right before Saddam shot him in the head.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“It’s over. It’s over”

It will be, if we can actually secure the oil production/distribution system--
and if we can establish a de-Baathified police and government.

Til then, "it's over" is disinformation.

It ain't over, til it's over.

[freedumb2003]

>>Like Saddam's father did right before Saddam shot him in the head.<<

I want to die quietly in my sleep like my grandfather and not yelling and screaming like the people in his car.

[kayak]

Splitting up

Splitting up is what I want to see happen to them ..... a little piece here, a little piece there ..... but with enough intact to provide for positive identification.

[VadeRetro]

A story that Saddam has survived, passed through reliable intermediaries from a guy thought dead but now rumored to have survived.

Maybe.

[whereasandsoforth]

"...Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi, the chief of staff of the Republican Guard.

You should have seen his name before they shortened it"


Silly, that's his nickname!

[billhilly]

Billy-Bob Ali Akbar

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Saddam’s younger son, Qusay, sobbed and pleaded to be allowed to go into hiding with his father. But Saddam replied: “Splitting up gives us a better chance of survival.”

It's always tough when you have to kick the cubs out of the den.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[Dale 1]

Find him and kill him - Then its over. P.S. kill Arafat too, then a lot of it will be over.

[Teacher317]

It ain't over yet, you evil f***s. Just wait until you turn the wrong corner... and then wait until you come up for Judgment Day.

[Brian Allen]

<< Sobbed and pleaded? This is even worse than anything Bahgdad Bob could come up with. Sobbed and pleaded; isn't that what Qusay's victims did before they died? >>

And as did Qusay's brothers in law as Qusay and his monstrous brother tortured them to death.

[weegee]

Uday is DU in pig latin...

"Believe it... or not!"

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Find him and kill him - Then its over. P.S. kill Arafat too, then a lot of it will be over.

What, you think that when Saddam and Arafat are dead that we're done...over...safe? There will just be another group of trash ready to take their place.

We need to be watching the Paki's. They're watching Afganastan, Iraq and probably Iran all have new forms of goverment or well on their way to changing ala Iran. They're next on the list and they have nukes...lets hope they dont flex their mussle as a way of showing the Americans not to mess with them as well.

Also North Korea will get a little tenser as well.

[LibWhacker]

. . . when the dictator warned his sons they must accept defeat . . .

Doesn't sound like Saddam at all. Luckily, I got this here grain of salt . . .