A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 20-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

surrendered gladly to US troops.

This is a fiction that only you americans seem to believe.

It's a fact well documented even by the liberal media. The vast majority of
Saddam's troops surrendered immediately once they came under fire. Many
surrendered without firing a shot.


He didn't fight back effectively because no dictator can who rules by terror
and intimidation when a liberator with a real chance appears.

According to you he had spirited the WMDs to Syria. That kinda hinders
a defense. Either he had weapons to fight back or he didn't. Which
is it?

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.


and he likely removed them to Syria,

Given that the air was filled with american spy planes and satellite
surveillance, how come there is no direct evidence for this.

He had twelve years. The border is exceedingly long. There is not as much
surveillance as you might like to believe. We barely managed to stop a truck
convoy carrying nearly a billion in US cash and gold.

US claims
in the absence of anything resembling proof leaves a lot of us sceptical.
So far we've only seen photos of broken down trucks.

What makes you think we're under any obligation to provide you with
anything, much less proof?


along with billions in gold and cash, before the
invasion.

Which begs the question, why didn't he spirit mimself out to enjoy those
same billions?

Because he thought himself immune from US aggression, based on his
experience in the first Gulf War. Because he was a megalomaniacal tyrant
with delusions of grandure. Because he wrongly thought that the Iraqi
people, and in particular his soldiers, would fight to the death to protect
him. And, because he (and his brutes of sons) had a good thing going, what
with the daily routine of abducting and raping and then killing young virgin
girls and other perks of being a dictatorial tyrant.

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

Again, this leads only to scepticism about such claims.

Who cares what you think?

Don't claim he had nowhere to go - Bin Laden's still out there protected
someplace.

He did go someplace. He went into a spider hole outside Baghdad. We caught
him there. He just waited too long to try to get out because he thought we
weren't going to win.



just as
they are jumping on the bandwagon to play to N. Korea's every
claim about nuclear weapons.

Are you suggesting that we should NOT take North Korea's claim to have
nuclear weapons seriously

Taking them seriously and giving them credibility are two different
things.

Do you have some secret intel that indicates that NK does NOT have nuclear
weapons? I'm sure the president would be glad to hear it.


For now. We've got other things to do.

Yawn, another excuse...

Hey, we pick our battles based on OUR strategic decisionmaking, not on
yours.

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

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