From the Washington Post:

Necessary but probably not sufficient is the best way to think of the role that Hussein's capture will have in ending the insurgency. His failure to resist, though his sons went down fighting, will help dismantle the myth factor in the rebellion. "People are already saying the sons died like men and he gave up like a coward," a Baghdad resident told me in a telephone conversation.

"Why didn't you fight?" one Governing Council member asked Hussein as their meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked his own question: "Would you fight them?"