ABSTRACT
"He was caught like a rat", gloated Major General Raymond Odierno, the commander of US the Army's 4th Infantry Division which helped capture the fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein about nine miles from his hometown of Tikrit. That was on December 13, 2003. A day later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joined in. In an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes, he mused: "[H]ere was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all". On that occasion, Rumsfeld even allowed himself to be a little optimistic about the situation in Iraq. Since Saddam was "found with a sizable amount of money", this might mean the ability of "the Saddam Hussein family and his clique" in "providing money to people to go out and engage in acts against the coalition and the Iraqi people" had "ended".
