"Dweezil Dwarftosser" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:


One of the TV networks here reported this evening that he came darned
close
to meeting his end in that spiderhole. According to the report, the
special
operator on the open end was getting ready to chuck a grenade in the
hole
when Saddam stuck his hands up and said, in english no less, "I am
Saddam
Hussein. I am the President of Iraq. I want to negotiate." It appears he
was
willing to fight to the death...the death of his last misguided
follower,
that is. All of his past promises to go down fighting evaporated when it
came time to place himself in the suicidal situation he had sent so many
others into with such gusto and false bravado. Miserable ******* indeed.

It's actually a lucky thing he did.
Had he not, the grenade goes down the hole, and
no one would go down to see whose blood and brains
were painting the walls afterward.

Then we'd be in the same situation as we are with
Osama: dead somewhere, and unidentified.

Even if they had, I think they would have collected a few scraps of Saddam
flesh and DNA tested them.

Interesting to see him pleading for his life, I wonder if he offered the
troops any of the $750K in cash he had with him to let him go?

- Michael