News – Saddam Captured

“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him”

So says Paul Bremer.

And despite it all, I find myself skeptical still. We’ve been lied to often. had things spun, flipped and colored often. They say they have done a blood test. I’d be quite a bit more mollified if the results of that blood test were spread around to a wide range of third parties

But,m for now, lets assume that he is quite captured.

The questions are many.

Will this effect the insurgent attacks? Will they increase or decrease?

Will Iraqis be more cooperative as some think? Will they, the ever skeptical, believe?

Will the international community come around?

Will Saddam have the intelligence that the US has been desperate for? Most prominently, WMD intelligence.

And many others, though these are the most prominent.

I suppose we’ll get to see what the answer to these are in time.

One of the curious things is how the news commentators I’ve been watching have taken no small pleasure in emphasizing the degradation in how he was captured and comparing his unkempt appearance now, in contrast to when he was on top of Iraq.

Resources

Saddam Captured in Home Town, Disguised and Dusty – Reuters

Saddam Hussein captured – Guardian

Saddam Captured – Kausfiles on Slate

Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq – BBC News

U.S.: ‘We got him’ – CNN