Is anyone else surprised he was taken alive? I would have thought he
would have committed suicide before capture.


Saddam is very much a coward. Always has been. Cowards don't commit suicide
unless overwhelmed with depression.

He probably expects to survive.

We have caught a hot potato. The US will want to try him at a US (only)
military tribunal, and the rest of the world will want a Nuremberg type trial.
Sticky diplomacy ahead, at a time when Colin Powell has been muzzled and nobody
else in the administration is up to the task.