[MadIvan]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[RS]

"He knows that as long as he is not shown on television, captured or dead, the Iraqi people will stay afraid of him..."

I'm sure we will have a few captured or dead doubles to show...

[InterceptPoint]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

I agree, and France should welcome their good buddy with welcome arms. I always thought that he would bail.

[TADSLOS]

Two years from now (assuming he's still alive): "What do you mean it's Diamondique?"

[Militiaman7]

I vote for this option

[Dog Gone]

There will be nowhere that Saddam can hide in safety after we topple the regime and expose his crimes against his own people.

I don't even think France would harbor him.

And, he ain't the type to live in caves for the rest of his life. He's got a real problem.

[lafroste]

Hmmm.... Millions of dollars in diamonds, spirited away in the dead of night... This sounds like the beginning of a good movie

After the despot is killed, the jewells are gone! Enter the hero, a rapscallion if there ever was one, and the fun begins to get the diamonds, score with the babe (there HAS to be a babe) and kill the bad guys. What fun.

[Teacher317]

butbutbutbut Saddam is supposed to be using that money for food and medicine for the Iraqi people. I can't wait until ABCNBCCBSCNN get a hold of this and show his duplicitous nature to the world...

What's that? They won't? Huh! Imagine that.

[steveo]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

At least he could swim I guess.

[Kahuna]

Actually I think that George & Tony's methodically slow build-up to attack can be compared to "Chinese water torture" for old Sadaam. He's played the appeasers like a fidel, however he realizes that a couple of poisonous snakes are loose in his underground bungalow.

Always look forward to your posts Ivan and we have a mini Union Jack on our state flag. Bless the Queen, bless Tony Blair, bless Jack Straw and bless Great Britain.

[Kahuna]

not necessarily in that order!

[MindBender26]

The Times is very well wired into this story. This, plus the absent Powell brief, etc.

MI-6 is doing a good job of "leaking."

GSTQ TTFN

[anniegetyourgun]

Too late...I want him dead. And where he's going, those diamonds won't do him any good.

[Happygal]

Saddam is one of the world’s richest men

Well, there's one to throw at the communist lefties.

They hate an oil-background Texan democratically elected leader.

But are prepared to DEFEND, and defend violently, a sickeningly rich tyrant who found his fortune through murder and ill-gotten gains, who (by default and serious humanitarian indescretions) sits on an oil field (as well as WMD).

[SuziQ]

In a defiant address last week Saddam said he would never desert Iraq or its people in the event of war

Good!! I don't want him going anywhere else to continue to be a thorn in everyone's side!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I wonder if there is any relationship to this event of week 4 February:

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Authorities put a price tag of $100 million Thursday on the jewels, gold and securities stolen this month in what is widely considered to be the theft of the century in Antwerp, the world's diamond-cutting capital.

Police are still looking for the goods taken from 123 of the 160 high-security vaults at Antwerp's Diamond Center and the burglars who actually broke into the building Feb. 16.

My bet: Yes

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

[Saddam]is said never to sleep in the same place on successive nights

Hmmm! Neither does Clinton.

[Cyber Liberty]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

...And we'll be waiting with a nice Mai Tai.