Salon has a story about the Arabic media thinking that Saudi Arabia brokered a deal between Saddam's Baath Party and the US to hand over Baghdad. There's no smoking gun and only circumstantial evidence to plead the case, but the article is an interesting read and it should give you a few things to think about, like how come US troops met little resistance when they rolled into Baghdad, but the fight in Basra lasted 3 weeks? Where did thousands of Baath operatives go? How come Iraq didn't treat American POWs badly, or just kill them? If a deal like this did happen, it would explain a lot.