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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (9457)	3/23/2003 8:21:54 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 10157

You are living in a comfie bubble.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (9457)	3/23/2003 9:07:48 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 10157

ya know lose, i was jes thinkin, maybe Jacques Chirac should spend some of the money that Saddam put in his swiss bank acct to clean up the mess in Iraq. You got any moola from your short sales you can put up? Hey no pun intended right?

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (9457)	3/23/2003 9:46:01 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 10157

saddam, we hardly knew ye.... weep weep... ACCORDING TO A knowledgeable intelligence source, Delta Force, the supersecret commando group, had managed to tap Saddam’s underground phone lines in Baghdad. But the real break came when the CIA managed to recruit an asset, a senior Iraqi official in a position to know Saddam’s greatest vulnerability: where he sleeps each night. Saddam, who had stayed alive and in power for more than three decades by never sleeping in one place for long, had to trust at least a few bodyguards. He made the rare mistake of relying on one henchman who was more afraid of the United States than he was of Saddam Hussein. SINGING TO THE AMERICANS The Iraqi official “weighed the balance of fear,” says a senior administration official, who described the highly secret operation to NEWSWEEK. The man measured the risk that Saddam would suspect his betrayal versus the mortal certainty that the American military was coming to wipe out the Iraqi strongman and his closest followers. The Iraqi turncoat began to sing to the Americans. He told his intelligence handlers that on the night of March 19, Saddam, probably accompanied by his demonic sons Uday and Qusay, was sleeping in a bunker beneath a nondescript house in a residential area of Baghdad. At the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., Director George Tenet got the tip shortly before 3 p.m. (11 p.m. Baghdad time). He raced down the George Washington Parkway to the Pentagon, bursting in on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as he met with his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. The air war—the astonishing first wave of “shock and awe,” hundreds of warheads raining down on Baghdad—was scheduled to begin the next night. But here was a chance to end the war before it even began. If Saddam and his henchmen could be killed in a “decapitating strike,” hundreds and maybe thousands of lives could be saved. msnbc.com