[Drjones]

This is a question and also my answer I came up with.

I have been pondering for a very long time why we can't take this moron out.

I mean, Dan Rather got in to interview the SOB! We coulda slipped a SEAL in as a camera man, and whamo: one .45 bullet later, the world is rid of Saddam!

But then it occurred to me:

Saddam's regime is bigger than saddam.

If we assasinate him, one of his sons or other cronies will step into place, right?

Sorta like cutting off one head of a multi-headed dragon.

Am I correct in my thinking?

Also: Why haven't we just assasinated him? (Other than what I mentioned above...)

[Hkmp5sd]

I think that with virtually no intelligence assets in the country or in his government, getting the information needed to plan an assassination would be very difficult. Assuming the shooter wasn't on a suicide mission, hitting him and getting away alive would also be very hard. He probably has/had a very extensive security network around him.

The US has spent the last three weeks, with troops and info sources in the area, attempting to kill him with bombs and missiles. Even now, we aren't sure if they got him or not.

[Kestryll]

Back when somebody got the bright idea to "outlaw" assassination. The U.S. govt. is "forbidden" by law to assassinate ANYONE. Yeah, we could probably pull it off, but not with plausable deniability.

[Hkmp5sd]

The U.S. govt. is "forbidden" by law to assassinate ANYONE.

Not prohibited by law. It is prohibited by executive order, which can be cancelled anytime the President desires to do so.

[Mute]

Because having a sniper shoot him in the head is bad , but dropping a bomb on his home is good. :rolleyes:

[Drjones]

Because having a sniper shoot him in the head is bad , but dropping a bomb on his home is good.

Um, read the rest of my post...

[10-Ring]

Tough to assasinate someone you can't find. They've tried at least 2X. If/when they find him...in Iraq, Syria, Iran...they will try again until they suceed.

[Jesse H]

I mean, Dan Rather got in to interview the SOB! We coulda slipped a SEAL in as a camera man, and whamo: one .45 bullet later, the world is rid of Saddam!

Dan and the camera crew were most likely stripped search.

[OF]

and if there had been an assassin in Dan's crew, he would have told Saddam about him.

- Gabe

[Mute]

Um, read the rest of my post...

Sorry Drjones, that wasn't directed at you, but to the ninnies who think that it's bad to assassinate vicious mass murderers like Saddam Hussein.

[Don Gwinn]

This is real life, not the movies. You don't know what kind or how many cutouts Danny had to go through to get to the location of the interview--nor do you know whether he even knew where he was.

I am endlessly amused by all the people who think we should just have a platoon of SEELs infiltrate a hostile nation, set up a blind, shoot the President For Life when he strolls by on his evening walk, and then jog to the harbor and swim out to international waters. No sweat!

[Drjones]

Sorry Drjones, that wasn't directed at you, but to the ninnies who think that it's bad to assassinate vicious mass murderers like Saddam Hussein.

Oh. I understand.

The reason I didn't see the sarcasm is because I was discussing the war with some blissninny types the other day, and one woman was asking why we couldn't just assasinate him rather than invade the whole country with thousands of troops.

I think I figured out a fairly plausible answer to that in my initial post.

:)