Catherine, I believe there have been many attempts, but he keeps
himself so hidden. And it's not just Saddam who needs to go -it's
the whole extended family, and there are scores of them. If Saddam
himself were to die, then one of his sons would take over, and they
are - hard to believe - even worse than him. Saddam "trained" his
elder son Uday to become a psychopath by acquiring a sheep for him
around age 10 and teaching him how to kill it as slowly as possible
by disemboweling it. For his coming of age party, Uday was allowed
to shoot a political prisoner. He now has his own torture chamber.
Even Saddam got so angry with him once that he shot his own son. This
was after Uday had strangled Saddam's food taster with his bare
hands. . .
The best that can be said about that family is that they're insane.
Sarah
At 7:49 PM -0500 12/22/2002, Catherine McKay wrote:
Call me naive, but I can't understand how a group such
as the CIA can't get in there and assassinate the
bastard. Have I seen too many movies along the lines
of Mission Impossible and Spy Game? OK, so Saddam
apparently has a bunch of lookalikes running around
the country pretending to be him. So they could knock
them all off - I don't imagine they're Joe NiceGuy if
they're in on this weird game and it's better than
bombing the crap out of kids and innocent people who
have done nothing to us apart from being born in the
"wrong" country.
