Ain’t No Way

A story has been circulating that Saddam Hussein was first captured by the Kurds, who drugged him, and left him for the Americans to find. Mark me down as disbelieving. There are too many problems with this story. It could not have happened. First, the Kurds would have killed him or handed him over to the United States, probably the former. They certainly would not have left him with a firearm and stuck him in a spiderhole for the Americans to find. And if they did, they could have given the US a much better set of directions to the aforementioned spiderhole. But ...

I am reminded of some very bad movie and TV plots. For example, when Batman was captured by his enemies, or when Dr. Evil captured Austin Powers. The next step for the bad guys was to design some extremely complicated mechanism to kill Batman/Austin, and then leave the prisoner entirely unattended so that he may find a means of escape. If the Kurds captured Saddam and then left him for the Americans to find, then I accuse the Kurds of watching too many Batman reruns.