It was good news to wake up to the announcement that Saddam Hussein had been captured. Congratulations to the armed forces who have been searching for him over the last eight or nine months. From what I understand, it was indeed a triumph of intelligence gathering that led to his capture. I've said it before but I'll say it here again, if you want to capture or kill a particular individual you can't do it the cheap way, by remote control, from thousands of miles away. You have to do it on the ground, and get up close and personal to do it.
By the way, the so called NeoCons, who have been back pedalling furiously over these long months saying the war wasn't about capturing Saddam or finding weapons of mass destruction are now saying they knew all along they would get him and they were just joking when they said it didn't matter whether he was captured or not. I guess they were also joking when they said he was killed many months ago because he sure looks pretty alive now.
Aloha!
