Hmmm...
OPINION: Saddam is attempting to stir up a global jihad as he heads to the gallows and from there eternity -- where every day is global warming.
Or...maybe he is just full of himself, as usual.
I don't know about God, but Satan is surely waiting for Saddam!
Leni
That ought to make everyone in Iraq laugh! The most united I ever saw the Iraqis was when Uday and Kusey were "displayed".
If they don't get it done, Pelosi may pardon him!
Saddam's god and my God are two separate gods. My God is a God of love and salvation, his god is the prince of darkness. Looks like Saddam will be slapping high fives with the devil soon.
Saddam's execution needs to be televised with a laugh track.
Or? Where is it written that he can't be both?
What I found particularly striking was his rallying cry against the "Persians" as one of his -- and one of the Iraqi people's, since he can't see the difference -- enemies. Well, gosh, I can't imagine why the Persians (Iranians) would have a hate-on for Saddam. He only gassed a few hundred thousand of them.
This world will be a slightly better place by his absence alone, once he departs. I don't know what his funeral plans are, but I can't imagine any place for his remains in a free Iraq. He should be cremated and his ashes scattered off the coast of Kuwait, so beachgoers there can piss on him before wading into the surf.
"...If God wills it, he will place me among the true men and martyrs."
I really wonder if he believes this crap. I wonder if somewhere deep in his mind he may actually acknowledge his crimes. That the payback for years of mass killings, buthering, torturing, raping, etc. is at the end of a rope.
I hope Iraqi leaders finish the job before the year ends. Get it done, truly a fresh start '07.
Why would they allow publishing of a note from Saddam?
Shove his note up his butt when you hang him.
Why allow this monster to send out any messages?
Au contraire. THe trouble is, the bastard is right. THe 5 years pretending he was a devout Muslim prior to invasion have paid off. If he's died early on, all would have been well. If there had been a long trial process in non-US, non-Iraqi habnds all would have been faintly better than the currewnt situation. The current outcome is like the Germans in the early fifties who remembered that at least Hitler made the trains run on time, strengtherned the economy, etc. Hindsight blurs the negatives...
He displays the common symptom of the Grand Dictator (aside from the most important, the impulse to murder), an all consuming narcissm that oft displays itself in self absorbed solipsistic rhetorical flourishes and an inability to seperate their fate from the nation's. I refer you to Joe Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, Idi Amin Dada, Fidel Castro, Et al. If they have nothing else in common, you can always count on this one to be there.