[the_doc]

I think it's actually more likely that Saddam is already dead, that he did not survive the direct hits by thirty-six cruise missiles and the four 2000-pound bunker buster bombs.

These were armaments calculated to do the job--and then some!

When you think about it, there is actually no reason whatsoever at this point to believe that he is still alive. (The fact that Saddam is incommunicado is potentially significant in that very regard.) The Iraqi's "live broadcast" of Saddam speaking doesn't add up, and we shouldn't count it as having any significance whatsoever.

In fact, several things about the broadcast positively argue that he is probably dead. According to one report I heard on TV, the "live broadcast" shows technical signs of being a videotape. I think the speech was pre-recorded as a generic rant for just such an eventuality. (Come to think of it, this would explain his tone. He was speaking as an unconvincing dead man.)

See my argument at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/870163/posts?page=10#10

See also 15 and 17 on that thread.

[the_doc]

I said "we shouldn't count it as having any significance whatsoever," but as the subsequent paragraphs reveal, I should have said "we shouldn't count it as having any reliability whatsoever."

[Cuttnhorse]

Naw, he's still alive...Arafat and Saddam are harder to kill than a sewer rat.