Quote Originally Posted by Idaho
Probably, on balance, the Sunnis were your better bet. What you should have done was pick a secularist strong man from amongst the Sunnis. Someone who could keep a lid on things but keep the oil flowing. Someone who we can deal with but who will act as a bulwark against Iran.





Doh!
indeed an ups! moment.

wasn´t saddam supposed to have a bunch of look-a-likes?

maybe they can find one of them...tell everyone it´s the real Saddam and the guy who died was a fake....hey...maybe it´ll work.....with the way things are going over there it doesn´t look like such a bad plan anymore