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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Oct 10 2004, 11:04 AM
Hussein looked like a tough guy right until the very end (even the stories of him hiding in a super secret bunker, instead of a hole in someone's back yard, made him look powerful) and that is what Saddam wanted the most. To be perceived as a tough guy and a great leader in the MIddle East. Nothing more, nothing less.
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That's another thing I don't get about all this. Remember before the war there was all this talk of supersecret underground palaces that he could live in for years. They had segments on the news about work some German company had done on tunnels, lots of speculation and "experts" making him out to be some sort of Bond villain with an underground lair, directing the war and threatening the world, that kind of thing.
What, umm, happened to all that stuff? Once the war started, I don't remember hearing anything about it. Saddam was found in hole in the yard, his sons were killed in some guy's condo, everyone else got caught or turned themselves in. Was it all just a figment of someone's imagination (or even mine)?