To: Green
All I'll say to that is; then why hasn't Saddam bothered to release just one video holding up a current newspaper rather than those edited and old clips?
That really puzzles me.
4,837 posted on
04/07/2003 7:09:56 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
("We aren't softening them up, we are killing them!")
To: Fledermaus
I doubt he felt he needed to prove to US he was alive. And he probably didn't need a current newspaper in front of him to prove to the Iraqis he was alive.
He has instilled such fear in the Iraqis that seeing videos of him probably scares them into doing what he says. Having one of his known speakers speak for him was sufficient for the Iraqis. Those appearances that were broadcast showing him weren't for us, they were for the Iraqis and the Arab world.
4,876 posted on
04/07/2003 7:15:13 PM PDT by
Green
To: Fledermaus
All I'll say to that is; then why hasn't Saddam bothered to release just one video holding up a current newspaper rather than those edited and old clips? Because he hadn't printed issues for these dates?
4,877 posted on
04/07/2003 7:15:17 PM PDT by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: Fledermaus
That's why I think he was seriously injured.
Alive.
But couldn't be photographed. (Head wound maybe and has badages. In bed with crushed legs/chest so he can't stand or walk.)
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