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.
Everybody stop fighting and the US will be outta there the same day.
No way! Salidin was a KURD!!! Unfortunately, we have two Repellican Senators trying to get us to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as usual for "the stupid party!"
Obviously Saddam's using the same polsters that the dems are using for the 2006 election. LOL!
What about Al Qaeda?
Iran is in Iraq, Hezbollah is in Iraq, al-Qaeda is in Iraq and they have all been getting their teeth in further and further. I really wish we did put more troops in country years ago, but we are stuck with what we have.
Somehow I predict that Saddam will be freed one day. If his lawyers and the Iraqi court allow his trial to extend beyond when the US troops leave, you can bet the Sunni insurgents will conduct a maneuver to extract him out of prison (either through bribes, thuggery, or by force)
whatever the outcome you won't around to see it Butcher of Baghdad... I wish that soldier had instead thrown a couple of grenades down the spider hole. Imagine how many lives would have been saved..
Doesn't the world have a right to Saddam's speedy trial?
The Liberals in america will see to it that Saddam is reinstalled as leader of Iraq..... In fact some have already suggest that....
Hi Saddam. I live on a planet called earth, what do you call your planet? We have one moon, do you have any moons, if so how many? Our sky is blue, what is the color of your sky?
Now, is the DNC reading Saddam's talking points, or is it the other way around?
Don't tell me. They have them surrounded in their tanks. Again.
Why is this vermin still alive?
Funny, he and the Democrats still sound like they're reading off the same playbook.
Ask your Democrat candidates what they think Saddamn means?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Boot Murtha bump.
It is outrageous that he can deliver these messages to his baathist friends.
Too bad Sodom wont be around to see it!
I don't know who's the bigger psycotic-delusional Saddam or Rooter-Reuters.
The rats' aren't going to take over. They will remain the minority for years, if not generations to com
Looks like Saddam is running for the Democrat nomination for 2008.
If by some really strange chance he is right, the last person out of Iraq sould make sure to put a bullet in So-Damned-Insane's head before leaving. Much more of a finishing touch than turning out the lights.
As Sir Lancelot said of some scoundrel, "Pity that he endures". And then he put an end to that disturbing deviation. Why is the baboon still alive?
I want something more than hanging. Hanging is too easy. Here's a few possibilities:
1. Let him loose in a gauntlet of women.
2. Tie him up in the town square and let everyone throw shoes at him.
3. Make him kneel, and then cut his head off. Dull knife needed.
4. Gas him.
5. Draw and quarter. Send bits to the farthest reaches of Iraq. Each piece dipped in pig's blood to prevent it from being a martyr relic.
Well...he sounds sincere. Lets put him back in power and give him the names and locations of those who helped us get his sons so that he can personally tell them that he forigives them. I mean, whats the harm? /sarcasm
LETTER: Bush Took My Job, Killed My Sons
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind.
I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years. Not a single government program was there to help me. How can Bush call himself "compassionate?"
Far worse, I lost two of my sons in Bush's evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and for what? So that Bush's oil buddies can get rich. My pain of losing my sons is indescribable.
While it is trivial next to the loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply have nothing left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people like me?
I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the point where I had to live in a hole in a ground, all because of President Bush. And when the authorities found me there, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, I was arrested. Mr. Bush, I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a compassionate man! I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a Christian!
If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democrat Party. If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 I would still have a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons!
Regards,
Saddam Hussein
Yeah, and this from the guy who thinks that he's the President of Iraq!
News flash for Saddam....
Obviously, Saddam believes the American TV/media slant on the Iraq war. He has also probably lined up a sponsor for the Nobel Peace Prize as soon as the RATS liberate him. We will be calling him 'Uncle Saddam' by the time the media get through polishing up his image. However, it will not happen on President Bush's watch so he will have to dream on for now.
HOw much better off we would all be if they'd just shot him
in his hole and filled it in with concrete.
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