If Saddam was killed, U.S. military planners would have achieved one of their prime objectives in the war. It would cap a dramatic day in which U.S. forces established a foothold in one of Saddam’s palaces in Baghdad after swooping into the city the day before.
Of course, the Information minister would probably prop his dead body up on a chair and do a little ventriliquism with his "dummy."
CNN's Christianne A-manpower would call it "further proof that the regime is still intact."