BUNKER BUSTER BONANZA

Fox and NBC are reporting that "senior US officials" are stating that, based on very good intelligence, we got Saddam and his two sons tonight. According to the stories on both networks, intel agents placed the three Husseins as well as several high-ranking Iraqi officials in a residential building in Baghdad. A B-1 bomber was then called in and it dropped 4 2-thousand pound bunker busters on the complex. The intel agents on the ground reported that no one left the building before it was hit; afterward, there was nothing left save a big crater.

This would mark victory if we got him, especially if we bagged his boys in the strike.

But part of me worries about this. It's the part that remembers how Saddam's troops have behaved since the war began. They have taken every opportunity to try to get our soldiers and Marines to kill Iraqi civilians. Let's hope tonight's raid wasn't a trap designed to get Iraqi people killed while laying the blame on us.

If it wasn't, and we really got him, I predict much partying in Baghdad in the near future. Those people have lived under a madman for 25 years. They're overdue for a street festival of mammoth proportions.