why did Saddam stay in Iraq? - Democratic Underground

skjpm

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:26 AM
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why did Saddam stay in Iraq?

He could have gotten away easily. Apparently, he was puttering around his hometown in a used car. Why didn't he get away when he could?

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DemocratSinceBirth

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:27 AM
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1. Where Would He Have Gone?

The pressure on the host country would have been extraordinary....

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Ellen Forradalom

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:28 AM
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3. My thought exactly. Where to?

OK so he might have slipped across the border into a neighboring, marginally friendly country like Syria. But unless the host country were in the mood to be bombed flat, they probably wouldn't accept him.

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Killarney

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:28 AM
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2. Well, there goes the...

... long list of countries willing to harbor him. This takes some steam out of Bush's warmonger insistence that a long list of countries would harbor men like Saddam.

He was miles from his hometown, in a dirt hole.

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skjpm

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:32 AM
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6. capturing an old man with a used car in a dirt hole

doesn't seem like that big of a deal. It didn't seem he was ever fighting capture. And I don't see him as leading resistance. It was more like he was kicking around the old schoolyard, reliving memories, waiting for the inevitable.

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thebigidea

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:29 AM
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4. he strikes me as quite the romantic

Edited on Sun Dec-14-03 10:29 AM by thebigidea

with an egomaniacal conceit. No way would he have fled.

I wonder if he got a good chunk of a novel done while hiding in that hole?

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rocktivity

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:30 AM
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5. I think he'd been captured months ago

and was being held in secret for maximum effect. Okay, everybody--let's go home, and let the Iraqis rebuild themselves, using their oil reserves for leverage. Oh, and Syria, better stock up on duct tape!

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niyad

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Sun Dec-14-03 10:40 AM
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7. and he supposedly had 750,000 in cash on him. this defies all common

sense and logic. as smart as the man is supposed to be, we are supposed to believe he was just hanging around the area of his birth, waiting to be taken?

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