Hawk, sorry, I have used BigFoot all along as my name name for the great, dreaded, but extremely elusive, despite searching high and low, Weapons of Mass Destruction. I didn't mean Saddam.
BigFoot, aka Yeti, Loch Ness monster - other names I've used for other WMDs; mythical, much-feared, monsters.
Personally, I think all this is largely about King George II going to show Saddam what happens when you try to kill Dad and Laura. [If those rumours are true]. Saddam was also [allegedly] approved of the destruction of the Twin Towers - not surprisingly since he has been sanctioned and bombed for so many years.
A bit like Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and the USA attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki and mass bombed Tokyo. Tit for tat and all that. Japan tried expanding to create a great big empire. Same as Saddam. The USA decided to roll them back. Sanctions, wars, reprisals ... plus ca change.... Instead, we are getting a great big USA empire, which is okay by me [I'll take the best thing going in the absence of a NUN]
<How long did the rumours persist that Hitler was still alive,>
Unlike Elvis, who is hiding out in Eketahuna, enjoying some quiet life, I think Saddam will be found and confirmed alive or dead. He's in the equivalent of Hitler's bunker, waiting for the unhindered troops to find him. Like Hitler, I doubt he'll be spending time alongside Milosevic being pycho-tortured eternally by lawyers in a joke of a trial.
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