Reply #21: They'll kill him before he gets a chance to talk about U.S. ties [View All]

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Why he doesn't spill his guts now or put it in some kind of safe place can only be explained by his desire to be a pan-Arab tough guy. He wanted to be Gamal Nasser or someone like that so he could puff up and strut as a macho statesman, so that's probably why he'll never come clean. His capacity for self-deception is impressive, but it's got many precedents when looking at other egocentric leaders of the past.

It would be nice if, when the jig is up, certain people would actually cop to their complicity. It would have been nice had Cliff Baxter left something behind, but that alpha-male bravado is a heady cocktail.

Saddam will either die in custody, be assassinated or be executed without ever breaking it to the world how he was sustained by the U.S. and used as an asset. It's a waste and it's silly, but it's just a question of how and when. The whole point of bringing him to trial on issues that have nothing to do with dealings with the United States is to dispose of him before he implicates us in anything. It'll work just fine.