Saddam had guns with him....Why did he allow himself to be taken alive?

This doesn't make sense. A murderous dictator (like a Hitler) usually doesn't give such satisfaction to his captors.

when it came to brass tacks, he was a physical coward.

kinda like the chimp.

he fought in the coup. The guy himself was a thug.
I still find this whole thing suspicious. Very convenient when
you ask yourself: "Who benefits..."

country. Kinda like Saddam playing the role of Saddam. I don't think he's a nutcase, just an apathetic disgusting human being.

Since my threads were locked..I don't know if it was my original thread or the responses, but I have a theory and I hope it does not offend anyone.

Just stepped out of my deep think. Here is what explains the way Saddam was captured and why there was no resistence.

The US has known where Saddam was for months and had captured him at least a couple of weeks ago...when rumors surfaced that he had been captured but quickly squashed. In capture he was heavily sedated (druged) and kept until such a time that it would serve the administration's purpose...maybe clos to the 2004 election.

Enter the recent scandal about Halliburton overcharging for gasoline, the scuttle about EU not being able to bid for contracts, Halliburton no-bid contracts, etc. These stories were snowballing into a mountain. The latest revelations about the over charging were HUGE and going to get bigger. And Dean was gaining attention with his anti-Bush anti-Iraq-war message. The neocons..lead by Cheney..had to come up with a major event to wipe all of these from the maleable minds of the American people. Only one of two events could do this: capture Osama or capture Saddam. The neocons lose nothing by doing this now instead of closer to the election. Wiping these mounting negative events from the news will virtually ensure another 4 years of the Bush cabal.

Saddam offered no resistence because he was a zombie. The US knew that if he was humiliated instead of myrtered this would give them the leverage they needed to quell the Iraqi risistence. A masterful move.
Just my thinking...but tell me how i am wrong. And tell me the one thing that the neocons have overlooked.

Now you can wait for the move to bring out the "evidence" that Saddam was responsible for 9/11. And who is going to doubt our intelligence now? this is going to be the major thrust of the administrations PR now...proving that we won the war on terror because we have captured the real mastermind behind 9/11.

"But do truth serums actually work? Sodium pentothal, the most commonly known speech-inducing compound, is a mild sedative that makes people more talkative, but not necessarily more honest. Even more problematic, from a human rights standpoint, is a long history of practice that blurs the moral lines between the use of interrogation drugs and more overt methods of torture."

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=truth+serum&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26amp%3BrequestId%3D10889437be1d3e26%26amp%3BclickedItemRank%3D6%26amp%3BuserQuery%3Dtruth%2Bserum%26amp%3BclickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.alternet.org%252Fstory.html%253FStoryID%253D13341%26amp%3BinvocationType%3D-%26amp%3BfromPage%3DNSCPIndex&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fstory.html%253FStoryID%253D13341

or just nearby, like the taxi?

While he might have kept the guns in case he needed to fight against some small force of Iraqis who hate him, he'd know he never stood a chance against an American squad. Hitler had an ideology, so suicide could be honourable for him; Saddam was interested in power and survival (think of the doubles), so there's no reason to think he'd preferred suicide.

Possibly.

The trial could be quite interesting, BTW. Meetings with Rumfilled, conversatons with King George I (before Kuwait), who sold him the WMD he once had.....

Very interesting indeed.

shortly before the election. That's when the Bush administration will show films of Saddam's horrors.

If the trial is not newsworthy enough, the CIA will finger Osama as well.

It's all about keeping Bush in power.

He was expounding on the BBC about how Saddam didn't have the balls to be a martyr, like the "suicide bombers" who died for him...

Why does it not surprise me that somebody has said that already?

He should be interrogated also. He is a decietful pimp.

about WMD and his "links" to Osoma? This could be a very good thing for us!

No, you're swallowing what the administration is telling you.

And we wonder why "they" keep believing Bush when WE keep believing Bush.

They tell us whatever they want to tell us.

"he had guns but he didn't use them". Make him look like a wimp. Pure propaganda.

And if he was talkative? (who knows if this is true?) Well who knows what kind of gas they sent into that basement before they went in and got him. Hussein could have been high as a kite when they pulled im out.

Given what life is like in Iraq (before and after) that's not too surprising.

questions. Now I wonder why the story has changed?

First, realize that he is a coward and will do anything including selling out his family to save his ass. I never had any trouble believeing the reports of inner circle defectors describing actions such as crawling under tables when the lights flickered. The signs are obvious with this guy.

Second, if he lives there is still hope, however slim, that he gets his old job back.

Third, he's a broken shell.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=269271

They got to his wife and favorite son. He telephoned his wife weekly (so the story says).

Knowing that this is the same government/army that held hostage Iraqi children until the fathers caved in and turned themselves in, who knows what they threatened his wife with? The child's safety?