Tempus Occultit
There’s no need for anybody to know in whose custody Saddam Hussein is at this very moment or the exact time or place of his hanging or anything else. Stir rumors and take guesses all you want, folks. He’s dead. He’s not dead. It happened a while ago. It will happen in a few hours.
Draw it out.
If there were a dam and if it would break, better to have it crack and crumble than burst and overwhelm.
I have no idea how the Iraqis will react. I could guess that the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs and the Shia will rejoice in the streets, but they may not bother with it. I hope they do, though, so that for the first time in many, many months, the American People might have a conspicuous occasion to see the Iraqi people on their TVs, being happy human beings and not just abstractions.
