Gould 0738 wrote:

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.

Doesn't Fox News (ha!) already have the trial transcripts?


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