[ConservativeVoice]

Nothing new and read by his Info Minister. This guy is dead, or in a hospital somewhere.

[wideawake]

There is no evidence that this message comes from Saddam Hussein - only the claim of the flunky reading it.

Yet Reuters dutifully reports it as a statement from the Great Leader himself.

[linn37]

hey Reuters Saddam did'nt say anything.

[b4its2late]

He's dead, Jim!

[humblegunner]

Poor dead bastard.. he does indeed have a demanding job.

[Yankee]

Dead Man Talking

[Lee Heggy]

"The aggression that the aggressors are carrying out against the stronghold of faith is an aggression on the religion, the wealth, the honor and the soul and an aggression on the land of Islam,"

The minister of Info needs a thesaurus.

[ConservativeVoice]

Just a thought...

Does this remind anyone of the Star Trek episode where Kirk & Co spend time on a planet full of Nazis following their drugged and incoherent founder who's propped up by his deputy as a convenient tool to maintain power?

Gee...maybe life does initate art.

[MassExodus]

"Jihad is a duty. Whoever dies will be ... dies will be.... dies will be .... dies will be .... ( needle scratching sound ) rewarded by heaven ... This is what God requested of you,"

[Publius]

I'm going to go out on a limb here.

It's been said that Saddam's people have watched "Black Hawk Down" over and over to learn how to fight us. I now believe that they've been watching "Weekend at Bernie's".

Uday and Qusay took it during that decapitation attack. They're dead.

Saddam was wounded badly enough that the Iraqis asked for the Russians to send a surgeon -- not knowing that Russian medicine is still firmly planted in the 19th Century. (Saddam probably had a crushed chest and third degree burns.)

With the possibility, however remote, that Saddam might survive, the top people felt the need to remain loyal to him. The entire "Weekend at Bernie's" routine was to keep the top Baathists and military people in line, instead of watching them surrender at the first sight of allied troops.

I believe Saddam finally died several days ago. The families of Baathist insiders, usually kept as hostages, are in the process of leaving the sinking ship. The black-clad Baathist thugs are the only thing holding the resistance together, and it's important they believe that their master is alive.

Once this thing is over, we're going to find out that the decapitation worked, and Iraq was held together by a few desperate men who based their tactics on an American comedy.

[Poohbah]

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This tyrant is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the chair 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-SADDAM!!

[Aria]

I've always found it interesting that he expects his people to believe that God wants them to die to protect someone who brutalizes them.

[MassExodus]

Have YOU gotten any requests from that side of the globe for "Photo Enhancement" services ?

How 'bout a very vertically oriented saddam reviewing the troops holding todays paper?

[metalboy]

Did they show Maddas on TV? If so, were his lips moving like dubbed Japanese Godzilla movies? "YOU FIGHT FOR ME REGIME..YOU YOU SHOOT GUN"

[scooter2]

This guy is dead, or in a hospital somewhere.

Or, he has already left the country and is laughing at all the idiots who are dying for him.

[4mycountry]

>>"Hit them, fight them ... Fight them everywhere," the message sa(id)

Iraqi cheerleader alert.

Ra Ra Ra!
Hit Sadam in the knee!
Ra Ra Ra!
Hit the other knee!

[Kenton]

Dead, Dead, DEAD!!! I have no more proof than anybody, it's a just a very strong hunch. It hit me like a brick once I realized that the information minister wasn't just warming the crowd up for Sodom, he was reading what was supposed to be a live speech!

And it makes sense that the Baathists would try to cover up, since the threat of Saddam staying in power is all that's keeping them from being torn to shreds by their own people.

[Cachelot]

Saddam has turned into a newt. He'll not get better.

And he should get a better translator. Like babblefish. I'm pretty sure he never meant to say "the eye of my apple of my eye".

Then again, maybe the loons on LF are right when they claim this is a "war for Iraq's extraterrestrial heritage" :)).

[wireman]

Saddam would have to phone any speech he gives in.

I'm not sure of the number, but the area code is 666.

[paws_and_whiskers]

"Jihad is a duty. Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven ... This is what God requested of you,"

[arly]

"Sadam Urges Iraqis?" when did that happen I must have missed it..all I saw was some other clown on the TV.