Perhaps this is why: (no conspiracy theory needed)
"EXCLUSIVE: SADDAM HUSSEIN SPIT ON A G.I. AS HE WAS HANDCUFFED LAST WEEK OUTSIDE HIS SPIDER HOLE, U.S. GOVERNMENT SOURCES TELL TIME - SOLDIER
PROMPTLY SLUGGED SADDAM"
Link: www.time.com...
Excerpt:
"Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003
New York � U.S. government sources familiar with the accounts given by troops who helped capture Saddam Hussein tell TIME that the fallen dictator
apparently made one feeble attempt at defiance, TIME's Timothy Burger and Phil Zabriskie report. As soldiers were handcuffing him after he was
extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor.
As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant -- probably the first time in more
than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood up to him."