Right up to the Red Army entering Berlin, Hitler was plotting a counterstroke, using divisions and regiments with all the combat power of companies and platoons. That is, if they still existed at all. You don’t tell the madman with the power of life and death anything he doesn’t want to hear.
Saddam won’t just be hiding in an underground bunker, he’ll be hiding from reality. And that works mostly in our favor.
Indeed. One can hope, of course, that he was hiding in the bunker we just struck, though life is seldom so simple.