From: "Gene Storey"
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CNN reports: "In the last analysis, he seemed not terribly brave,"
Rumsfeld said.

What's Saddam going to do? Use his pistol against anti-tank weapons
like his sons? He was never considered stupid. I'm beginning to think
Rumsfeld might be talking through his ass again.

I think Rumsfeld meant that Saddam could have/should have done a Hitler and
used his pistol to kill himself.....especially after Saddam's having made all
those glorious proclaimations to the Iraqi resistance to fight to the death.

Parading Saddam ALIVE in front of the video cameras after his capture sure
isn't doing "The Myth of Saddam: Earthly Reincarnation of Saladin and Grand
Unifier of the Greater Arabian Cause" any service. Not being captured alive,
however, may have at least created another martyr and rallying point for the
jihadis.

As it stands, Saddam was more interested in being arrested and negotiating a
deal for himself (reports from the arresting troops today said the first words
out of his mouth upon surrending mentioned trying to swap leniency for
information).

The problem with these dictator types is that they get so much blood on their
hands during this Earthly life that, when it comes time to face the transition
to the hereafter, they start to wonder about the real possibility of eternal
damnation.....and that possibility renders them cowards in the face of death.
Dave