[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.

[Travis McGee]

You can bet that the entrances to his bunker complexes are well disguised, and that he never lingers there, where the bombs will fall. The living spaces of the bunkers will be well distant horizontally from the entrances, and in order not to be buried alive, there will be multiple exits.

[BamaFan]

There are millions of explations for why he would not have visible wounds. The simplest is that he was nowhere near the bombs. Given the time it takes to plan, coordinate and execute the TLAMs and F117s (at a minimum - what other platforms were in the strike package?), a simple explanation for why he wasn't near the aim points - he left the area before we struck it.