Reply #149: The soldier who was at the top of the hole

[DoYouEverWonder]

was getting ready to throw a grenade in when Saddam popped out his head and surrendered in front of 100's of people, many of whom were Iraqis and Kurds. At that point, it was a little difficult to kill him, which is what we would have done in an instant except the Iraqis had outsmarted us.

They had Saddam and then made sure there was a big audience for his capture. The Kurds gave us Saddam on a silver platter, unfortunately they made sure we got stuck with him alive. That is why the WH is in such a state of confusion over this. Remember how unconfused (I know that's not a word) they were right after 9-11. The Patriot Act was already written and their plans for war in Afghanistan and Iraq were in the bag. Remember how prepared W was when he was in London and the British Embassy had just been blown up. His speech fit perfectly with that days turn of events. Now contrast that to how unprepared W was on the morning of the Columbia accident or when the Chinook helicopter got shot down last month. Last weekend it was very apparent that the WH was not in control of the news on this and that they were totally unprepared to be stuck with Saddam alive. Otherwise, they would have had it all figured out already where and when he would be tried. Nay, this has doublecross written all over it and I am sure there are bunch of Kurds laughing their butts off about the whole thing.