Saddam's capture gives major boost to Coalition mission in Iraq - Jane's International Security News

Saddam's capture gives major boost to Coalition mission in Iraq - Jane's International Security News

My third child and second son was born on Dec. 12th, Friday morning about 9:00 am. The next day they captured Saddam Hussein. I will tell my son that he was born in interesting times. Its good that Saddam was caught alive. I think it will be important for the Iraqi people to have closure on the tyrant's regime. I'm not sure that they can.

The thing that is important about the capture of Saddam is that it happened at all. Its a material demonstration that the intelligence gathering capability of the U.S. has increased dramatically. Remember, initially, the Pentagon said that the insurgents were merely left over Saddam supporters breathing their last gasp. It was weeks before they admitted to themselves and publicly that they were dealing with an organized resistance. A resistance that had been planned from the beginning by Saddam. But the resistance was fueled by money, and as their money ran out, their vulnerability to intelligence penetration by the U.S. increased, as the U.S. continued to pour money on the intelligence problem. The quality of intelligence being achieved by the U.S. has gotten steadily better and that finally resulted in Saddam's capture.

Capturing Saddam is not really going to stop the resistance, since he was not personnaly running it, but it is a major blow to the insurgents. Saddam's was theirs to protect, and if he is in our custody, it makes the insurgents look ineffective, desperate and on the way out.