Not that I really want his picture on this site, but they got him. I'll try to write more entries so that this story will move down the page. MSNBC reports that of this hour, he is being held in an undisclosed location. I think I've heard of that place before. It must be getting crowded there.

Now that he is in custody it does not necessarily follow that the neoconservatives are vindicated in their policies, in my opinion. It means that Saddam is gone, that is all. Time and history will tell what this whole mess will mean. The whole story of Saddam's rise, his support by the United States during the Iraq-Iran war, the time during the Kuwait invasion when the U.S. gave no negative indication to invade and then tried to take Iraq out of the game in the mideast, and then finally this last installment will all come into focus at some time. How much is this power grab a give-away to Bush's friends in companies like Halliburton and the others in the energy sector? Could this outcome could have come in any other manner? Did we really have to sacrifice lives for this? Could we have done something any differently as far back as the beginning of the century and WWII that would have avoided a monster such as Hussein? U.S. foreign policy post WWII, along with the U.S.S.R and to a lesser extent Europe shaped the world until the fall of the Soviet Union. Are we going to continue with like policies in a like mind in the future? Who is really behind U.S. foreign policy and what sectors do they represent? Who benefits? A lot of questions and a lot of secrecy, which we do not need. Post 1945 /1948 U.S. Government secrecy should be laid aside.