Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 8:53:55 PM, Andrew Bowman wrote: AB> b) Saddam would be finished off, either by his fellow Iraqi leaders or by AB> his beloved citizens. Sadly Saddam appears to have been well prepared (as AB> well as lucky too) to have avoided this fate (so far at least).
His beloved citizens did rise up right after the war. He used the helicopters we let him keep to slaughter them. We didn't stop him because we wanted a coup, not a revolution. Actually having the people in charge rather than a friendly puppet wasn't in the cards, and we can always use a bogeyman. -- mike
