What came naturally to me, after I first heard the news was the question: How come that this supposedly shrewd and omnipotent dictator having weapons of mass destruction did not come with a better exit strategy? Being caught only with $750,000 in a rat-hole near his home town? How pathetic. I could come up with a better exit strategy and probably as much cash (courtesy of credit card companies) without access to any of Mr. Hussein's resources.
The US invasion of Iraq and the outcome of that invasion was not exactly a surprise to Mr. Hussein. So if he indeed was such a shrew villain as the US propaganda wants us to believe, one would expect him to find a safe haven (Syria? One of the -stans that emerged from the x-USSR?, Libya?) well before the invasion and simply go there as soon as the US mercenaries .. err.... "brave men and women defending freedom and democracy" overrun his country. Yet it did not materialize, just as the supposed WMD. Why? Perhaps Mr. Hussein was not such a big threat as the Bush gang wanted us to believe.
In short, things do not quite add up here, and if we had an independent press, questions should be asked instead of orchestration a "minute of hate" for the US sheeple (are the Brits also swallowing raw this tripe?).
Wojtek