Anybody else think it strange Saddam allowed himself to be captured?

[lancdem]

I thought he'd never surrender and would kill himself first. Am I alone?

[jonoboy]

1. fishy as hell

[quinnox]

2. I'm thinking it was maybe

because Saddam might not get such an awful fate after all. And he had this in mind.

I'm thinking about how former dictators like Abu Nidal, and Napoleon, and that "Baby" Doc guy, they all got off relatively well.

And there are so many others that I am forgetting, that ended up either scot free, let alone to live out a life of luxury on some neutral country.

It's strange, but the ultimate fate of Saddam may yet be unexpected.

[MinnFats]

4. yeah, but for those other guys....

..."The Butcher of Texas" did not hold their fate in his hands.
Bush just LOVES to have people executed.
....

[izzie]

16. Wonder what Bush was like before he gave up bottle for Bible?

That whole Right Wing and Neo-con group seem to love to kill any thing that moves. Scary people.

[radwriter0555]

14. Khadaffi, Khomeni, (sp) both got off well, what happened to Noriega?

Is he in a prison?

Orlando Bosch, terrorist pardoned by bush #1....

[youngred]

3. he may not have had the chance

the man captured looks like he was awoken with the capture and it may have been too late for him to do anything.

[WhosNext]

5. I think he just wanted a hot bath and a place to sleep.

[lancdem]

9. Good point

or perhaps he was surprised, as another poster said.

[Tinoire]

6. Extremely. I agree with you.

I find it extremely strange that he didn't kill himself first.

There's something bizarre about this capture.

On edit: I also wonder if he didn't go mad... Extreme solitude can do that do you... and to go from being one of the world's most powerful men surrounded by every conceivable luxury to a hunted wretch hiding in a cage, fearing betrayal, what does that do?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Saddam isn't the suicidal type

But there is something fishy about this capture.

My take is that the Iraqis & Kurds set us up so that Saddam would be captured alive and they let out the news through Iran before we could shoot the whole place up and kill him in the process. All we had to do was say we faced resistance and the troops were defending themselves.

Now W is stuck with a living, breathing Saddam that he has to figure out what to do with.

[izzie]

17. You must recall his age. Now he is wearing out.

I do not know of many people in their late 60's who could have stood up all those months of being on the run.My God Bush is in his 50's and has to have his own pillow.

[alwynsw]

7. Bullies are usually cowards, and this guy is a bully writ large

He was probably too chickenshit pull the trigger on himself.

[mistertrickster]

12. Amen, I was gonna post the exact same thing . . .

Bullying is based on cowardice. He's too big a wimp to go down fighting.

On the other hand, it is likely that the resistance wasn't based on defending "Saddam Hussein" either, since they knew him to be craven. So taking him out won't help much.

[Mattforclark]

10. Sort of

suicide goes totally against his psychological profile, but at the same time he has to know that he is going to burn in hell very publicly.

[incapsulated]

11. Huh?

Not everyone is suicidal. Even when they should be.

The guy was on the run for months and they found him in a hole. Doesn't sound like a surrender to me.

[latebloomer]

13. The whole thing smells

With all his money and connections, why was he not on some beautiful island somewhere living a life of luxury? Hiding in a little hole-- no, there is more to this story than is being revealed. . .

[lostnfound]

15. Probably. But won't an execution make a nice pre-election boost for W?

Do we think they can drag out the trial for that long?

And I guess we won't expect to see Saddam shipped to Guatanamo, will we? They save that fate for nameless slobs who don't have the media's attention.