[bybybill]

I`m not so sure. Saddammnn doesn`t want to die. Why wouldn`t he split and keep his sorry ass safe?

[mhking]

Saddammnn doesn`t want to die. Why wouldn`t he split and keep his sorry ass safe?

He knows he's a marked man. A meglomaniac like him is more likely to say, "If I gotta go, I'm takin' y'all with me!"

That's much more dangerous a situation, and exactly why we have to take him out. Let's put it this way: Would you rather take out Dr. Doom with all the juice of Latveria behind him, or just him by his lonesome?

[Cycle watcher]

I think we should at least consider your point. Perhaps there is some limit to Saddam's irrationality. Perhaps he would rather not take the lives of so many thousands if it means that he must surely die also. It could depend on whether he could arrange a secure exile within one of his "brother" Arab states (they have some strong cultural traditions on the way they treat "guests"). The US should proceed with its own agenda but also seek a clarification of what Saddam is proposing and if it would truly free Iraq from his yolk, as well as render him and his family incapable of threatening the US, Israel and his neighbors again.