[BamaFan]

You have given this a lot of thought, but I'll wager that you are completely wrong. I'd bet that: 1) SH is still alive and 2) the video of him is exactly what the Iraqi's say it is, him, taped after the strike.

[the_doc]

Maybe I'm wrong. But I wonder where Saddam's wounds were. They were not visible at all. He showed no signs of any problem. He even seemed to have good mobility moving around in the chair, with no incapacity or even wincing.

And if Travis McGee's theory is correct--i.e., his theory that Saddam was deeper in the bunker than the guys who got killed, then how did they get him out of the rubble so quickly and treat his wounds and do his make-up for the camera and do the videotape and then broadcast it?

Maybe there was an escape tunnel leading out elsewhere. (That's the only way he could have gotten out from under several tons of concrete and steel so quickly.) But rather than continuing to invoke such "maybes," it makes more sense to me to theorize that he is dead--which would automatically explain why he is incommunicado and would also explain the fact that the speech was completely generic ranting (taped in advance).

I prefer to believe that our missiles and bombs were correctly selected weapons for the job. (If they were, he's dead.)

We'll wait and see.