Call me cynical, realistic, negative, whatever… but something’s not right about the whole “Saddam Hussein hanging” thing. All during the hunt of the mad dictator, we were constantly reminded that Saddam had many lookalikes to help avoid capture. How do we know for sure we got the right one? People were starting to turn against the idea of the Iraq invasion after over a year of little progress (people as a whole like instant gratification, so when nothing happened right away, even the media got bored with the war.) So it’s such perfect timing that Saddam was captured, rushed to trial, and executed right before an election year. Or was he? Later on when whoever ends up in the Presidential Office is having low opinion ratings, they’ll suddenly announce “oops, that wasn’t really Saddam, it was a lookalike! Here’s the REAL Saddam” and it will all start over again.
Another thing that doesn’t sit right: the media claimed the the actual film of the hanging would not be released to the public. So that leaves us to think, did it really happen? Is he really dead, or just secreted away someplace? I know I sound like a conspiracy theory nut here, but it just sounds like something that could happen. Maybe I watch too many movies where the bad guy always manages to escape in the end.
I predict that there will be some sort of bombing/attack on New Years’ Eve. Everyone will be drunk, our attention is directed elsewhere… perfect time for it. There’s gonna be retaliation for the hanging. The Iraqi government was hell-bent on executing Saddam before the new year… I think the terrorists will do the same. Just my opinion… I don’t have any inside information here, so call off the dogs.
Update – yeah, okay, so I was wrong. Would you rather I was right?