You know, as much as Saddam Hussein is a dick, daveb was a little disappointed when he saw the news of his capture, bearded and hiding in a shallow pit. All that build up for nothing. He figured, c’mon, this is Saddam “gas me some Kurds and pop me some crystal” Hussein! Fucking Iraqi gangsta shit. You’d think he’d roll up on a convoy, strapped to the teeth with WMDs, blasting Americans to high hell before hitting paradise with all it’s attending virgins. But no, he was caught hiding in a hole with a briefcase of cash. Fuck that. Saddam, what happened kiddo? Where’d the balls of steel go? Why’d you go out like a bitch when it could have been a blaze of fucking glory?

But wait! Daveb read this morning, an account by a former marine that Saddam Hussein’s capture was bullshit. The marine, who was present at Saddam’s capture said the hidey-hole scenario on the news was a total fabrication, staged a full day after he had been apprehended. As part of a 20 man team, this guy encountered Saddam and a few of his baddies held up in a house.

“We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed,” he said.

He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: “You have to surrender. … There is no point in resisting.”

“Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam’s capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well,”

You go Saddam. That’s more like it. Evil dictators need to keep the standards up. If you’re going to be a tyrant, go out like a tyrant should go out. If this is true, Saddam, you’re a bastard, but you get props for keeping it real.

Now why the whole capture was falsified, who knows? Probably to paint the picture of him as a coward and thief, fleeing his country with the cash instead of defending it. That is, assuming this story is true. If it is true, what’s going to keep it from being mentioned at his trial?