-- On 22 Dec 2003 at 11:43, Steve Schear wrote:
Cite your sources. The one's I find creditable indicate that at the time of his capture he appeared to have been held captive for at least 2-3 weeks.
Oh come on. A whole platoon of random troops would have to be part of a big conspiracy. Plus quite a few Iraqis have interviewed him. They in the vast right wing conspiracy also? Or did the US perhaps rewrite Saddam's memory with the memory erasure thingy from 'men in black' Shortly after busting Saddam, the US busted large numbers of people in his apparatus, on the basis of records seized from his farmhouse. Did Saddam's henchmen perhaps not notice Saddam was missing because the US replaced him with a double? Real conspiracies exist, but when you start to see conspiracies so large, so well organized, so tightly disciplined, embracing so many quite ordinary seeming people, you are slipping into madness. If a conspiracy is large, it is not going to be well organized and tightly disciplined. The communists took the big conspiracy as far as it could go, and it did not go that far. It is really hard to put on a big show unless you can carefully select your audience for willing suspension of disbelief. If the US was faking the circumstances of Saddam's capture, this would be comparable to the bigger potemkin village operations that the communists put on, for example Mao's fake prison, where only the most privileged got to play prisoner, but the communists were utterly paranoid about exercising total control of any outsider's access to the set, the actors or anyone remotely connected to the actors, and only allowed the most carefully selected outsiders tightly controlled and highly supervised access, whereas the US army has been completely relaxed about letting anyone contact those involved in the story. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG mnNGnEuQuzpGASrruKWsKhQzuCnYUai/jQiqorMy 4qGaSHHsj4ncE7dJt0UcQcaG4v8WQFbg0mZElu6db