Sadaam's Doubles to be used as election trump cards?

[mkregel]

It's widely held that Sadaam had several body doubles, who had facial plastic surgery to look like him.

So what I'm wondering is....what are the odds that Bushie is holding on to one of the doubles (surely they must have captured at least one of them) to whip out when the poll numbers aren't going his way near the end of the election to whip up patriotism and what not?

I've always thought this and wondered what you guys thought about it...

[trotsky]

1. A definite possibility.

I wouldn't put anything past the Bushies.

[Atman]

3. It will happen this week (kinda dupe)

The Bushista Regime can't let the news headlines get any worse. CNN is already reporting that the US is closing in on Saddam, sighted near Tikrit and Baghdad. Get ready for the big parade. You can probably bet the farm on this one.

[judge_smales]

5. No way in hell Saddam gets captured alive

And fortunately the body double thing won't work too well. Saddam has an
unusuall voice which many average Iraqi's would recognize. So even if the US can get our media on board Al Jazeera will out their secret. Of course the Freepers will say "No way! It's him! You can't trust them A-Rabs to tell the truth". So Fox viewers will belive it but there will still be plenty who know the truth.

[Walt Starr]

2. You may have something there

Release the information that they "captured" "Sadaam Hussein" the Friday before the election, then reveal it was really a double the Wednesday after.

[Goldmund]

4. It could be a double-edged sword

Once they announce they've caught him, how are they going to claim it's "Saddam loyalists" and "remnants of Saddam's regime" that keep attacking US troups? If the attacks don't cease -- and they won't -- after Saddam's caught, then that means there's definitely no endgame in sight. Right now, a fair percentage of * supporters think that once they find Saddam, the Iraq situation will calm down; when that doesn't happen, won't the war look even more like a failure?

[leftofthedial]

6. What if the PNAC wing of the CIA already replaced Saddam

with one of his doubles, probably sometime prior to the first Gulf War and have been setting up this "Invasion" for a long time.