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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> >
> > VH> No -- he wouldn't try that.  A SMART man would cut a deal
> -- surrender,
> > reveal where all the WMD and other crap is, and get a reward.
> > >
>  Again, interesting!  Don't think any of the current
>  leading generals of Saddam's army was that smart,
>  tho.  The nearest approximation being the general
>  who surrendered the Iraqi Fifth Corps in Mosul.

Yes -- but there would have been a broader span of control, had Saddam been
dead, I think.  Of course, he could be dead and they not know it -- and
still tremble at his shadow.
>
> > VH> Saddam dared not do that -- he might create his successor
> that way. :-)
> >
>  Actually, I did think of that!  And Saddam PAID for
>  his obsession with surrounding his generals with
>  secret police watch dogs.  He got only incompetent
>  or half hearted service from them.
>
Yep -- that's the price you pay when you rule through fear.


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