Iraq soldiers surrendering as fast as we can take them!

[aerpix]

Your credibility is already shot a little bit, I am afraid, for not getting Osama so far. I think he is a real threat, as his terror network is (still) extremely well organized and powerful. And I fear it won't be too long before we will experience this again ...

Of course you are right about dictators, my idea was just hypothetic. Saddam is probably one of the most extreme, as he has not allowed anyting like an opposition which would be able to overthrow him. In other countries at least some sort of opposition plays a factor, or the military.

Regards,
Peter

[raldrich]

I do agree about Osama, and in a way this war is probably (in his own mind) a way for GWB to "save face". after all, it is easier to find a government and an army than to find one man.. however, you Europeans had your ghost, too.. Carlos Ilych Ramirez Sanchez (aka the Jackal).. took many many years to nab that one.

[aerpix]

True, Carlos was a story of its own, but honestly I fear that catching Saddam could end up in a similiar way than Osama. You might get his army and his country rather easily, but not Saddam himself. I bet he has made precautions to escape already a long time ago. I do not believe he will die for his country.

Regards,
Peter

[raldrich]

possibly, but then again, nobody knows for sure if he's even alive at this point. just so long as he leaves, i don't really care what happens to him (granted for the things he's done, a slow agonizing death would be too good for him)

[aerpix]

Suppose he's still alive, but no new pictures are shown on TV to be sure that only a limited number of people know where he is. Also from TV shots intelligence may find clues where Saddam hides. Also he is know to employ a number of doubles, and it is well possible that all of the late TV photos were of his doubles, and he has hidden away even before the war started.

Same for Osama, there was quite some time after the Tora Bora bombing when he seemed disappeared. Meanwhile we know he is up and well. These guys have seven lives, and a lot of money to pay for them.

Regards,
Peter

[indian airlines]

Saddam's still alive, but i'd love it if that man was ousted out of power (not by war though). I'd love it even more if he dies a torturous death, for the horrid things he has done.

[raldrich]

Amen

[Richard]

I say when he is caught, turn him loose in the streets and let the people deal with him accordingly. He can die in the same indignant way as Mussolini.