Posted on 10/15/2006 12:43:33 PM PDT by jmc1969
In an open letter, Saddam Hussein told Iraqis "victory was at hand" and urged insurgents to show magnanimity to opponents, saying he himself forgave Iraqis who aided the killers of his two sons.
In the letter dictated to his chief lawyer Khalil Dulaimi during a four-hour meeting on Saturday in his prison, the former Iraqi leader also said Iraqis should put aside differences and set only one goal - to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq.
"Victory is at hand but don't forget that your near-term goal is confined to liberating your country from the forces of occupation," Saddam said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Sunday.
Dulaimi said the letter was written days before the court trying Saddam over the killing of 148 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail in the 1980s is due to meet on Monday to review witness testimony.
Saddam urged his Sunni minority community, the backbone of the insurgency, to even forgive Iraqi informants who helped U.S. troops track down and kill his two sons, Uday and Qusay, in a gunbattle at a house in Mosul in 2003.
"When you achieve victory and it is close.. remember you are God's soldiers which means you should show genuine forgiveness and put aside revenge over the spilt blood of the sons of Saddam Hussein," Saddam wrote.
"I call on you to apply justice in your Jihad (holy war) and not be drawn to recklessness and urge you to be forgiving rather than tough with those who have lost the path," he added.
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Oh, SURE, and Saddam is such a giant of credibility!
Reuting for Saddam.
I didn't know that Saddam was a Democrat!
Sometimes I wish the first soldier on the scene of his capture would have tossed a grenade in that hole. But, nooo... we had to be nice guys!
if the dems wins He could be right
I thought that BAGDAD BOB did all of his war talking.
This is why lawyers shouldn't be able to take correspondence of their clients out of prison.
Answer: The RATS and LIBS lose the next page of their playbook and go silent on the next media cycle.
Saddam must have been allowed to start receiving DNC memos and faxes. He is starting to confuse the U.S. with the DemocRATS. Sorry Saddam. They are not the same thing.
"Our military has done all it can do in Iraq, and the Iraqis want their occupation to end."
John P. Murtha, October 15, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301425.html
Think he and Saddam have a plan they are not letting us in on?
I guess he listens to the MSM...
He must be looking at polls showing that Nancy Pelosi will be the new Speaker.
This is why his lawyer should be tried for aiding and abetting the enemy.
Unfortunately, he's right -- if the Democraps get charge of Congress.
/libscum SUCK
Saddam has been talking to Murtha. Murtha has a draft surrender document ready for when the Demoncrats take over Congress.
Ready to resume his rightful place as Defender of the Iraqi People and the New Saladin.
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