On 24-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

It's a fact well documented even by the liberal media.

They surrendered - it's the "gladly" part that is a fiction.
The US media showed huge crowds of cheering Iraqis welcoming
the US soldiers. Media in the rest of the world showed
the exact same scenes without the tightly cropped view.
The "huge" crowds turned out to be dozens of people. Same
technique is used in Hollywood to make a few extras look like
a mob. US fiction.

He did. That he couldn't get his troops to fight for him to the death shows
that his style of rule was ineffective at garnering loyalty.

If he had them and the Iraqi troops left them alone, then why didn't the
yanks find them? They can't be spirited out of the country in an instant
and wouldn't likely be hidden by folks that wouldn't support their leader.

He had twelve years.

Which means he _didn't_ have them to fight with. I ask again. Did he
have them to fight with or not?

He miscalculated US determination and military power...twice.

But got away with it once. That sorta doesn't make your point.

That's why we're called a "sovereign nation."

There are lots of soveriegn nations. Perhaps the US should remember that.

Mike