Seems that we can now accurately determine the next nation to get plowed under in the War on Terror.

You can read the full article here, but here's the money shot, all you need to know: "Syria said Monday it had chosen to support the Iraqi people against the “illegal” US-British invasion of Iraq, defying a new warning against Damascus from US Secretary of State Colin Powell."

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I'm becoming ever more convinced that Osama is taking a dirtnap somewhere.

How else to explain the fact that he's made no announcement, no video, no nada on the subject of the coalition invasion of Iraq?

Similarly, Saddam published another tape today. It is entirely devoid of any reference to current events, and contains no other infornmation that could prove it was not taped weeks ago.

Furthermore, and more strikingly, there was an odd fellow present in the background durin Tariq Assiz's live press conference last week. That fellow was Saddam's personal bodyguard. He has never, not once, in over a decade, been seen guarding anyone other than Saddam.

My conclusion: Saddam is either dead, or severely wounded.

Disclaimer: I am sometimes wrong, but never uncertain. :-)

Speekina the deceased, there are reports that Hamas is sending over trained suicide bombers to aid the Iraqis. I say, good for them. Bring it on. I can't think of any better way for them to get their asses killed than trying to take on the US troops. They will soon find that wary infantrymen are going to be orders of magnitude more difficult to effectively bomb than civilians.

CORRECTION: The official I mentioned earlier was not Tariq Assiz, but the Iraqi Minister of Defense. I "misremembered." :-)

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I guess I just don't have what it takes to be a truly creative Evile Genius.

When I said, after hearing reports that Saddam had been buying up sone US militay uniforms, that we could expect to see trumped up videos on Al-Jazeera of US troops murdering unarmed civilians, I thought that was a pretty safe and, as it turns out, an obvious conjecture.

I'm not even surprised at the fake surrender ambushes.

But to send out his special security forces to take the surrender of Iraqi conscripts, and then promptly shoot them all after they've surrendered, that, my freinds, is the mark of a true Evile Genius.

I bow to the work of a true master.

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