What is going through the mind of Saddam Hussein as he waits for the American avalanche to bury him?Like any doomed man, he must entertain occasional fantasies of a miraculous last-minute reprieve, but nobody who has spent 35 years at the center of power in a country where the losers usually die can have many illusions. Saddam knows that he and his sons will almost certainly be dead by April, and his thoughts now are probably divided between wondering where it all went wrong and figuring out how to play the end-game in a way that enshrines him as an Arab hero.Being an Arab hero was always i...
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