I dont understand

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I know I am just a simple eskimo that doesnt understand the ways of the world but…

How come if all this war is to do is get Sadam out of power and “decapitate” him (if I hear that word again… god help me) how come the americans didnt just send a sniper or special ops team in and assasinate him. I know, I am making it sound a lot more simplistic than it really is but when you break it down…

Then when he is dead and gone the americans coud go in and “liberate” the country.

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*Originally posted by SureShot *
**how come the americans didnt just send a sniper or special ops team in and assasinate him. **

Yeha they wanted me to go there but I’m too busy! :stuck_out_tongue:

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not as easy as it sounds, but will save a lot of lifes :wink:

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*Originally posted by SureShot *
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How come if all this war is to do is get Sadam out of power and “decapitate” him (if I hear that word again… god help me) **

capita means head… de means no… it could mean to cut off his head, but I think it’s used to mean stop him from being the head of iraq…

capita is also used to mean government… capital… captain (derived from capita), etc…

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you know what’s a cool word though? Decimate…

decimate nowadays means to weaken, destroy, etc. But lets look at the etymology

Deci: latin word meaning ten
Mate: latin word meaning kill

this word comes from the practice in roman times to put people in a line and kill every tenth person…

… isnt that cool? I mean, it’s bad… but the word has a cool story!

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I know what it means smart guy :slight_smile:

I am just sick of hearing it all over the news and on CNN - heck it was the head line at cnn.com - the biggest headline I had ever seen there.

So do you guys agree with me or diasgree - I thought someone would be able to tell me why it’s not that simple. It would save millions of dollars and thousands of lives ultimatly.

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It’s not that simple because
2) The US has no way of identifying Saddam. He has body doubles, and we don’t have his DNA.

  1. it’s not just Saddam Hussein we need to get rid of… it’s also his family, his friends, his congress, his party…

If Saddam had left, the US would have STILL gone in. Why? because they don’t want Iraq to break into factions. You have the Kurds, the Sunnis that like Saddam, the Sunni’s that hate Saddam, etc.

But I would say the biggest reason for an invasion instead of an assasination is that they don’t want anyone to pick up where Saddam left off…

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also, do you notice that all the guards that surround him look exactly like him, with the mustache and all? it’s gonna be hard taking him down. also, the “decapitation” strike, i think, was merely meant to take down his communications, thus rendering him blind and deaf. that was the US’s first step to making saddam ultimately drop out of power. it seems like saddam’s not gonna step down without a fight, though.

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yeah his sons are in power as well, so if you kill daddy, you got 2 sad and mad boys with wepons of mass destruction to deal with.